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Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). — Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Daniaraland (J. A. Bell).— Coll. Tri. 



" Querimba.'' — IIoplTer, in Peters' Reise. 



144. Lycsena Hintza. 



Lycaena Hintza, mihi. N. Sp. 

 ? . LycEena Rosimon, Wallgr., Lep. Rliop. Caffr., p. 38. 



A.llied to L. Rosimon, Fab. 

 Exp. 11 lin. — 1 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Shining violet-blue : a narrow hind-marginal hlacJcish 

 edging. Hind-iving : the usual hind-marginal blackish spot. 

 Under-side. — JJhite, with black strice and spots: in each 

 wing — a stria closing cell (in fore-wing from costa and broad, 

 in hind-wing short, thin, and angulated) ; an irregular, 

 much-interrupted, transverse row of conspicuous spots beyond 

 middle'; two submarginal rows of spots, the inner of elongate 

 sublinear, the outer of small rounded, spots ; and a black 

 edging line. Fore-ioing : subcostal stripe continued on costa 

 to end of cell ; below it, a broad upward-curving stria from 

 submedian next base ; last three spots of transverse row 

 confluent. Hind-wing : short subcostal stria divided into 

 two spots ; beyond it a transverse row of four spots ; third 

 spot of transverse row of eight far beyond the rest, almost 

 touching second spot of inner submarginal row ; last two 

 spots of outer row large, fcdntly bluish-silvery-dotted. 



$ . White : shot with violaceous-bluish from bases : the 

 black markings of underside snffusedly marked. Fore-wing : 

 costa and hind-margin clouded with fuscous, on the latter 

 obliterating the markings and joining the three outermost 

 spots of transverse row : a whitish spot at anal angle. 

 Hind-iving : costa narrowly fuscous-clouded. Under-side. — 

 As in $ : bluish-silvery of two spots of hind-wing brighter. 

 Cilia in both sexes white, in fore-ioing spotted with 

 blackish. 



There can be little doubt that the specimen noted by "Wallengren as 

 Rosimon belongs to this species, llis description is not detailed, but he 

 particularly notes the cilia as white, spotted in fore-wings with black, a 

 character very constant in Uintta, while in Rosimon the eaiire cilia are as 

 constantly couspicuously black-spotted. The blue ^ at once distinguishes 

 the species irom Rosimon, and denotes a relationship to T/ieophrastus. The 

 ? of Rosimon presents a much broader white discal lield, in hind-wing 

 uncrossed by transverse row of s|)ots; the basal blue is more brilliant; and 

 with a greenish tinge: and with regard to the under-side, the spots of the 

 common iuuer submarginal row are much broader; while in hind-wing the 



