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the inner commences with a costal gold spot) becoming 

 confluent and bright-orange, with a gold streak before anal 

 angle of hind-wing, — and a hind-marginal, black, edging 

 line. Fore-wing: at base, two purple spots, and a short 

 transverse streak a little beyond them, not gilt ; beyond 

 second fascia, a costal spot and a fascia from costa to first 

 median, coloured like other fascise. Hind-wing : seven 

 spots, of which the larger have gilt centres, in basal region, 

 which is greyish ; anal-angular projection of ground-colour, 

 its black spots very conspicuous : a remarkable longitudiiial 

 fold, clothed with silky pale-brown hairs, runs from base 

 between median and submedian nervures as far as orange 

 colouring before anal angle. 



? . Paler ; blue much duller and of smaller area. Fore- 

 wing : orange spots beyond cell expanded into transverse 

 hands, sometimes confluent on median nervules ; a short 

 dull-whitish band before them, crossing cell and joining 

 blue. Hind-wing : a dusky band from costa crosses a 

 dull-whitish space before hind-marginal border ; anal-angular 

 orange pale and dull ; lunular marginal line white. Under- 

 side. — As in $ , but fasciae less brilliant. 



A $ specimen from Natal, in my collection, is very dull and suffused in 

 colour, the orange bands being replaced by indistinct ochrey- whitish. An 

 example in the British Museum, from Sierra Leone, I find mentioned in my 

 notes as very brightly and distinctly marked ; the short band of fore-wing 

 crossing cell being orange (Wallengren notes a similar ? ), red-ochreous 

 replacing the purple of the ander-side fasciae, and the two hind-marginal 

 str.'se enclosing a red space. 



This brilliantly-ornamented species is very closely allied to A. Vulcanus, 

 Fab. {Etoltis, Cram.), but differs in the marking of the under-surface, 

 Vulcanus having a conspicuous additional fascia in the basal region, in place 

 of the numerous spots of Natalensis, and a similar hind-marginal fascia 

 (confluent with third fascia in each wing) instead of the two striae. Vulcanus 

 $ , too, has no blue colouring above. Godart gives the fasciae as the 

 ground-colour, and vice versa in describing the under-surface of Vulcanus. 

 Wallengren evidently had not access to Doubleday and Westwood's 

 " Genera," or he would not have created his new species, Massilicatzi. 

 Neither he nor Hopffer mention the curious hairy fold in hiud-wiug of $ ; 

 which is also a character of Vulcanus. 



Natal (W. Guienzius).— Coll. Tri. 



Port Natal. Delagoa Bay. Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Damaraland. — Coll. C. J. Andersson. 



132. Amblypodia Erylus. 



Polyommatus Erylus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. QZS, 



[n. 60. 



lolaus Orejus, Hpfr., Monatsherichte d. Konigl. Akad. 



[der Wissensch. zu Berlin, 1855, p. 641. 



