243 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



(the spots in fore-wing more confluent than in hind-wing), — 

 a lunulate row of narrow confluent marks, — a submarginal 

 row of ovate spots, — and a thin black edging line. Fore-wing : 

 from submedian nervure, near base, an oblique upward-curving 

 stria to subcostal before middle. Hind-wing : a transverse 

 row of four elongate spots near base ; four or five spots of 

 submarginal row next anal angle Jilled with greenish-silvery. 

 $ . Blackish, shot from, bases over discs with bright-blue : 

 a tohitish discal space in each wing, on which disco-cellular 

 lunule and transverse row of spots ai-e more or less conspicuous; 

 submarginal row of spots, on both sides whitish-edged (very- 

 indistinct in fore-wing). Under-side. — As in $ ; markings 

 slightly larger and blacker. 



This seems a rare species in Southern Africa. I have never met with it, 

 nor has it been taken by Mr. D'Urban or Mr. Bowker. 



South Africa. West Africa. North India. — Coll. Brit. 

 Mus. 



Canara.— Coll. E. I. C. Mus. 



143. Lycsena Sybaris. 



Lyesena Sybaris, Hpfr., Mon. d. K. Preuss. Ak. d. Wiss., 



[1855, p. 642. 

 „ ,, Wallgr., Lep. lihop. Caffr., p. 37. 



„ ,, Hpfr., in Peters'' Jieise nach Mass., pi. 26, 



[f. 6—8. 

 Expands 10 lin. — 1 in. 



Allied to L. Theophrastus, Fab. 



$ . Bluer than Theophrastus : hind - marginal edging 

 broader (in hind-wing traversed by a lunulate white line) : 

 cilia of fore-wing spotted with fuscous. Hind-wing : spot 

 larger, darker, merged in blackish edging. Under-side. — 

 White, /am^/?/ tinged ivith yellowish: arrangement of markings 

 similar to that shown by Theophrastus, but all the marks 

 broader, blacker, — the spots much rou7ider and more separate ; 

 instead of lunulate row before submarginal spots is a row of 

 conspicuous, separate spots (in fore-wing larger than those 

 beyond them). Hind-wing : three or four spots next anal 

 angle outivardly edged with greenish-silvery. 



? . Whiter than in Theophrastus, especially towards Lind- 

 margin of hind-wing : all spots larger and darker ; blue 

 suff"usion 07ilg at bases. Under-side. — As in $ . 



Characters of ? from Hopffer's figure and description. A distinct and 

 very beautiful species. 



