LYCiENlDJE. 247 



Has a very short tufted tail on third median nervule of 

 hind-wing, not observable in worn specimens. 



Common ; usually singly. Open ground generally. 



August (b) — April (r). 



This is tlie brightest, in hue of the South African Li/onue, and is otherwise 

 easily to be known by its bro;id white and black fringes and singularly 

 cbequerec under-sidf. Its tails are almost rudimentary. Linue seems to 

 have taken the ? for a " Skipper," comparing it with Pyrgus 3Ialvce under 

 the name of Pit/io. 



Cape Town. Stellenbosch. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. 

 —Coll. Tri. 



Port Elizabeth.— Coll. W. D'Urban. 

 South Africa.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Bay of Port Natal."— Boisd. 



148, Lycsena Celaeus. 



? . Papilio Celaeus, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 379, f. K, K. 

 ? Hesperia Parsimon, Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 303, 



[n. 147. 

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

 LycaDna i'arsimon, Boisd. App. Voy. de Deley., p. 588. 

 5, Cela:?us, E. DoubL, List Lep. Brit. Mus., II, 



[p. 51. 

 Polyommatus Asteris, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 657. 

 Lycaena Asteris, JVallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 40. 

 Var. Lycaena Methymna, Trhnen, Tr. Ent. Sac, 3rd 



[Series, I, p. 280. 

 Exp. 1 in. 2 lin. — 1 in. 9 lin. 



$ . Lark violaceous-blue, pale violaceovs-bhie, or glistening 

 silvery-blue loith a violaceous tinge ; hind-margin loith a 

 narroio blackish edging, close before which (in hind-wing 

 nearly always, in fore-wing occasionally) is a more or less 

 distinct row of spots : cilia white, usually black-spotted in 

 hind-wing, rarely so in fore-wing. Fore-wing : a very distinct 

 disco-cellular black lunule of variable width (thinnest in the 

 silvery-blue examples, in one of which it is almost obsolete). 

 Hind-iving : spot of row between second and third median 

 nervules black, edged inwardly by an orange lunule (broadest 

 in pale violaceous-blue specimens). Under-side. — Very 

 variable. Paler or darker brownish-grey : in each wing — a 

 broad reniform white-ringed spot, darker than ground-colour, 

 at end of cell, — a transverse row of confluent similar spots 

 beyond middle, — two submarginal rows of white lunules 

 enclosing a darker space (the lunules of the inner row acute. 



