252 RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALIS. 



each wing, — a thin streak closing cell, — a transverse row of 

 spots beyond middle (in hind-ioing very irregular and widely 

 interrupted), — a lunulate paler streak (in hind-wiiig regularly 

 denticulate), — and a submarginal row of dots (indistinct in 

 fore-wing, slightly tinged with ochreous in hind-wing). 

 Hind-wing : near base, a transverse row of three separate 

 spots. 



? . " Same colour as $ . Fore-wiiig : a rather wide, 

 brown, hind-marginal border ; a central black lunule. Hind- 

 wing: on hind-margin, a row of brown spots." — (Godt., loc. 

 cit.) 

 The only example I have seen is the $ specimen in the British Museum. 



South Africa.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Cape of Good Hope." — Cram. 



153. Lycaena Cissus. 



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

 Lycaena Cissus, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 40, n. 13. 

 „ Catharina, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc, 3rd Ser., I, 



[p. 281. 

 Exp. 1 in. 1 lin. — 1 in. 5 lin. 



$ . Dull violaceous-blue ; cosfa and hind-margin narrowly 

 bordered with greyish-brown in both wings. Hind-wing : on 

 hind-margin, between first median nervule and anal angle, 

 from one to four bright-orange lunules, the largest between 

 second and third median nervules, and with a round black 

 spot touching its outer edge. Cilia whitish-grey. Under- 

 side. — Whitish-grey ; ocelliform spots blackish or black, 

 white-ringed ; in both wings a white-edged, blackish streak 

 closing cell, a sinuate row of conspicuous ocelli bevond middle 

 (those in hind-wing smaller and fainter than those in fore-wing), 

 a submarginal row of ill-defined, fuscous, whitish-bordered 

 lunules, and a single small ocellus in discoidal cell. Hind- 

 wing : base dusted with blackish and bluish scales; an ocellus 

 near base, just below subcostal nervure ; orange lunules 

 paler, black spot marked outwaidly with some bluish-silvery 

 scales. 



? . Blue paler, le.ss violaceous than in $ . Fore-wing : 

 costa, apex, and hind-margin very broadly bordered with 

 greyish-brown. Hind-wing : costal half of wing greyish- 

 brown, some small outwardly whitish-edged fuscous lunules 

 along hind-margin ; orange lunules paler and larger than in 

 $ , more or less confluent, black spot larger. Under-side. — 

 Quite like that of $ ; spots larger, more conspicuous. 



