238 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



King William's Town.— Coll. W. D'Urban. 



" Amazoulu Country. Madagascar. Bourbon. Mauri- 

 tius." — Boisd. 



Guernsey. Brighton, England (1859). — Vide "Entomo- 

 logist's Weekly Intelligencer," No. 160, p. 25. 



139. Lycaena Telicanus. 



Papilio Telicanus, Herbst, Nat. Bek. Ins. — Schmeft., 



[pi. 805, f. 6—9. 

 „ „ Hiihn.i Enc. ScJimett. — Pap., f. 371-2, 



[553-4. 

 „ Bseticus, Esper, Eur. Schm., t. 91, f. 2. $ . 

 Polyommatus Telicanus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. Q55. 

 Lycasna Telicanus, Boisd., Faune de Mad., &c., p. 24. 



„ „ Hpfr., in Peters Reise, p. 406. 



Lycaena Namaqua (Boisd. MS.), E. Douhl., List Lep. 



[Brit. Mus., p. 42. 

 Var. Lycaena Hoffmannseggii, Zeller, Eiit. Zeit., 1850, 



[p. 312 ? (secund. Hpfr.). 

 Exp. 10 lin.— 1 in. 2 lin. 



$ . Pale, glossy, bluish-molaceous, with a pinkish tinge : 

 a blackish line edging hind-margin ; cilia whitish, unspotted. 

 Hind-iuing : on each side of third median nervule, an indistinct 

 blackish spot ; between spots and hind-marginal edging a 

 white line, often indistinct. Under-side. — Broivnish-grey, 

 with double transverse white strice enclosing darker-brownish : 

 common to both wings — a double stria before middle, — 

 another closing cell, and confluent at origin of first median 

 with a third, much arched, submacular similar stria quite 

 across wing, — a submarginal, continuous, white, lunular 

 stripe, — a confluent hind - marginal row of white - ringed 

 sublunular spots, — and a linear blackish edging. Fore-iving : 

 inner white edge of first stria connected with base by a 

 longitudinal white streak, surmounted by a dark-brown dash 

 on subcostal nervure. Hind-tving : base dusky, with two 

 whitish streaks (one on costal edge, the other more transverse) ; 

 two hind-marginal spots (being the last of the row) conspi- 

 cuous, ringed with brilliant bluish or greenish-silvery, and in 

 a more or less complete circle of orange or ochreous-yellow. 



? . Greyish-brown, shot with vivid blue from bases over 

 discs ; the white-edged stria closing cell, ivith the confluent 

 stria beyond it more or less distinctly marked (less apparent 

 in hind-wing) ; marginal lunular stripe and row of spots very 

 indistinct in fore-wing, well-marked in hind-wing : two black 



