246 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



C— Hind-wing' with a very short or almost obsolete tail at end 

 oi third median nervule. 



147. Lycsena Thespis. 



Papilio Thespis, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 791. 



,, „ „ Mus. Lud. JJlr. Reg., p. 318, 



[n. 136. 

 Polyommatus Thespis, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 683. 

 Lycasna Thespis, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p 588. 

 ? . Papilio Pitho, Linn., Mus. Lud., &c., p. 337. 



Exp. 11 lin. — 1 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Bright shining -blue, with a narroiv, blackish, hind- 

 marginal line ; cilia broad, white, sharply and regularly 

 intersected with black. Fore-wing : a faint line closing cell. 

 Hind-wing : two faiat-blackish hind-mai'ginal spots, one on 

 either side of third median nervule. Under-side. — Whitish, 

 •much hitersected and chequered loith quadrate blackish-grey 

 or oclirey-grey sj)ots. Fore-wing : costa and hind-margin 

 more or less linted with ochrey-grey ; a transverse spot in 

 cell, another (surmounted by two smaller spots) closing it; 

 a very irregular, interrupted transverse row of spots beyond 

 middle, only separated in parts by white spots from a regular 

 row of spots (parallel to hind-margin) beyond it ; a row of 

 minute white lunules edging the latter combine with the 

 ochrey tint to form a pale hind-marginal border, marked 

 with a row of very indistinct dark dots ; inner-margin 

 dull-grey. Hind-wing : three irregular transverse rows of 

 ochrey-grey quadrate spots, more or less confluent on 

 inner-margin ; hind-marginal border as in fore-wing, but 

 more tinted with ochreous superiorly : two hind-marginal 

 spots faintly silvery-centred. 



? . Blackish, shot ivith blue from bases over discs. Fore- 

 wing : inner transverse row of under-side distinct, black, 

 separated from hind-marginal blackish by co7is2)icuous pure- 

 white spots ; disco-cellular spot large, with a whitish dot on 

 each side ; a row of minute indistinct bluish dots near 

 hind-margin. Hind-wing : two submarginal rows of bluish 

 lunules, the inner row more or less confused with discal blue, 

 the outer forming three incomplete rings near anal angle ; 

 black spots barely distinguishable from hind-marginal blackish. 

 Under-side. — As in $ ; but white ground much brighter 

 and clearer, especially on hind-margins. Hind-xmng : trans- 

 verse rows separately traceable to inner-margin ; metallic 

 centres of spots more brilliant. 



