258 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS, 



of hind-wing more or less irrorated with the same colour ; 

 a very thin hind- marginal fuscous edging. Fore-wing : 

 fulvous-yellow radiating outwardly (but rays not reaching 

 hind-margin), and sometimes marked by a very faint fuscous 

 line at end of discoidal cell. Hind-wing : on hind-margin, 

 near anal angle, two or three fulvous lunules, of which the 

 middle one is marked with a large black or violaceous-black 

 spot, externally more or less white-edged. Under-side. — 

 Whitish-grey : in each wing, a pale-fuscous, white-edged, 

 disco-cellular line or lunule, a row of spots (quite as in 

 Messapus, Godt.) of the same colours beyond cell, and on 

 hind-margin a row of faintly white-edged, pale-fuscous 

 lunules with adjacent spots of the same colour. Fore-wing : 

 six spots in row beyond cell. Hind-wing : first spot in row 

 beyond cell costal, black ; row abruptly interrupted on second 

 subcostal and third median nervules, so that the two first 

 spots are distant from the rest, — last spot, also remote from 

 rest, minute, lunular, about middle of inner-margin ; two 

 black, white-edged spots at base, one on costa, the other in 

 cell ; sometimes a third, very minute spot on edge of inner- 

 margin ; two lunules in hind-marginal row fulvous, the inner 

 one with an adjacent large violaceous-black spot. 



? . Fuscous. Hind-wing : near anal angle two or three 

 large, confluent, fulvous spots, the inner marked with a black, 

 the outer with a fuscous spot, both outwardly white-edged ; 

 a white line at anal angle. Under-side. — Quite like that 

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Translated from Wallengren's description. I bave never seen this 

 singularly-coloured species. 



Kaffraria (Wahlberg)."— Wallgr. 



Genus CHRYSOPHANUS. 



Chrysophanus, Hiibn., Westw., &c. 

 Polyommatus, Boisd. 

 Lycaena, Sieph. 



Imago. — General characters of Lyc<2na. Eyes smaller, 

 less prominent ; antennae rather shorter and stouter. Thorax 

 abdomen, and legs as in more robust species of Lyccsna. 

 Hind-wings not tailed on third median nervule (where, 

 however, there is sometimes a short dentation), but usually 

 with a more or less marked projection at anal angle. 



There is little besides colour to distinguish the insects of 

 this Genus from Lyccena, except the anal-angular prominence 



