LYC.ENID^. 15 



119. (1.) Lycsena Osiris, Hopffer. 



c^ Lyc(ena Osiris, Ilopff., " Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch., 1855, 

 p. 642, n. 21 ;" and Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 409, pi. xxvi. 

 ff. II, 12 (1862). 



Exp. al, {$) I in. 1-3 lin. ; ($) i in. i^-si Hn. 



^ Pale shining pinldsh-violaceous with a slight cupreous gloss ; a 

 narrow greyish fuscous hind-marginal edging {suhnacular in hind-wing) ; 

 cilia shining pale-greyish, near anal angle of hind-ioing hecorning njldte. 

 Fore-iving : a faint, narrow, terminal, disco-cellular greyish-fuscous 

 lunule. Hind-wing : a linear, black, white-tipped tail at extremity of 

 first median nervule ; above and below the nervule respectively two 

 black hind-marginal spots (of which the upper is the larger), bounded 

 internally by orange-yellow lunules (of which the upper is a good deal 

 broader), and externally by a very fine white line. Under side. — Pale 

 whitish-grey, with a very faint tinge of brownish; in each wing a ter- 

 minal disco-cellular lunule, and a discal submacular transverse stria, 

 both darker than the ground-colour, and white edged on each side, — 

 two submarginal rows of white lunules (the space between them in 

 fore-wing also darker than the ground-colour), and a hind-marginal 

 white line immediately followed by a brown terminal line. Fore-wing : 

 markings beyond middle extending from fourth subcostal nervule to 

 submedian nervure ; discal row almost regular, becoming more macular 

 and bent slightly inwards inferiorly. Hind-ioing : a sub-basal row 

 of three small, black, rounded, rather indistinctly white-ringed spots ; 

 discal row moi-e irregular than in fore- wing, the seventh spot (between 

 first median nervule and submedian nervure) lunular, farther from base 

 than the rest ; the first spot (immediately below costal nervure) nearer 

 base than the rest, black and rounded like the sub-basal ones ; inner 

 submarginal row of lunules sagittiform, rather suffused, outer row sub- 

 sagittiform and forming with hind-marginal line a series of imperfect 

 annulets ; black hind-marginal sjDots near anal angle rather smaller 

 than on upper side, incompletely ringed with greenish-silvery, their 

 oi*ano-e-vellow lunules rather larger. 



$ Brownisli-grey, rather loidely suffused from bases with bright pale- 

 bluish ; discs dingy-whitish ; in hind-ioing the rows of white lumdes and 

 the white and blackish hind -marginal lines more distinctly marked than 

 on the under side. Fore-wing : a distinct fuscous terminal lunule ; 

 bluish suffusion extends over lower part of discoidal cell along inner 

 marginal area and over disc to beyond middle ; in most specimens more 

 or less distinct representation of lower two-thirds of two suffused sub- 

 marginal rows of Avhite lunules resembling those of hind-wing. Hind- 

 ioing : bluish suffusion usually fills discoidal cell, but is otherwise more 

 restricted than in fore- wing ; upper of the two hiud-niarginal black spots 

 and its adjacent orange-yellow lunule much larger than in ^. Under 

 SIDE. — As in ^, but the discal submacular row less regular and more 



