LYCiENID-E. ^^^ 



spots of hind-wing larger than in $ . UNDER-siDE.-More 

 conspicuously marked, especialli/ lunular white stripe, which 

 is much broader and whiter, particularly m hind-wmg. 



Hopffer considers Zeller'8 Boffmannseggii an African ^a"ety of r.//.^«««» 

 stating that specimens from Wubia and the Uape are i;'^^^^^^ ^o ,t but 

 Staudin-er no es it in his " Catalog der Lepidopteren Europa s, 18G1 as 

 anTmerfcan species. My description is made from Sou h African spec",ens 

 only. Hopffer states that specimens from the C«pe. Mozambique and 

 Guinea are the largest, those from Egypt and A.-^^^ia the small st while 

 European examples hold the middle place :-the size of the South African 

 specimens is, however, very variable. 



Common. Gardens, and open ground. 



S^'eSt.'o'ra'ot-s, and easUy takeo. Habits si.ila, to those 

 of Z. Bcctica and L. Lingeus. 



Cape Town. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay.— Coll. TrL 



"From Graham's Town to King Williams Town. — W. 

 D'Urban, in litt. _ , ^ _^ ^ 



Butterworth, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). Madagascar.— 



Coll. S. A. MUS. _. n 11 -O V TVT 



Southern Europe. Cape of Good Hope.-CoU. Bnt. Mus. 

 Damaraland.— Coll. C. J. Andersson. ^^ ^ . ^ , > 

 "Cape. Guinea. Egypt. Arabia."-Hopffer, in Peters 



Reise. 



140. Lycaena Lingeus. 



Papilio Lingeus, Cram., Pap. Exof., y\. 379, f. F> /?• 



Lvno-eus, Hcrhst, Ins.—Schmett., X, pi. 288, 



" -^ ^ * [f. 1,2. 



Poiyommatus Lingeus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. ^^8, n. 



Lycaena Lingeus, E. Douhl, List Lep. B. Mus., p. 40. 



Exp. 11 lin.— 1 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Dull violaceous-bluish, very glossy (in some specimens 

 shot with silvery-greenish) : a blackish hind-marginal line ; 

 cilia white, irregularly varied with blackish, chiefly in lore- 

 vvincr Under-side.— Pa/e brownish-grey, roith transverse 

 tohUe-edqed darker fascice, and a hroion cloud m hmd-wmg. 

 Fore-ivinq : from costa, a single stria near base, curving 

 inward to origin of median nervure,— a short fascia (ot which 

 the outer white reaches below median nervure) crossing cell,— 

 another similar fascia at extremity of cell ; beyond midde, a 

 submacular fascia from costa to third median nervule ; along 

 hind-margin a whitish stripe, interrupted with brown, and 

 containing a row of small, dark, lunular spots, llind-wing : 



