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h. Eastern Coast. — " Querimba." — Hopffer. 

 6 1. Eastern Interior. —Tati River [F. C. Selous). 

 B. North Tropical. 



hi. Eastern Interior. — " Atbax-a Iliver " [Soudan J. — Butler. 



132. (14.) Lycaena Hippocrates, (Fab.) 



$ Hesjieria Hippocrates, Fab., Ent. 8yst., iii i, p. 288, n. 105 (1793). 

 ^^ Papilio Hippocrates, Don., Ins. Ind,, pi. 45, f. 3 (1800)." 



Exp. al, {$) 9-1 1 liu. ; ($) lo-lij lin. 



$ Dark-hroion ; apex of fore-wing tijypcd ivith 'white ; liind-wing 

 with a rather long, linear, hlack., white-tijyjJed tail on first median nervule ; 

 cilia brownish mixed with white, becoming pure white tipped with 

 brown at apex of fore-wing and near anal angle of hind- wing. Fore- 

 wing : apical white not broad, but conspicuous, below second radial 

 nervule emitting along hind-margin, immediately before a dark bound- 

 ing line, a very attenuated, interrupted, indistinct white line. Hind- 

 wing : costa edged with whitish ; between second and fii\st median 

 nervules a small hind-i.narginal black spot, bounded inwardly by a 

 thin orange-yellow luuule ; an extreme hind-marginal black bound- 

 ing line, preceded by traces of a whitish one, more apparent at 

 anal angle. Under side. — Greyish-ivhite ; in eaeh wing the disco- 

 cellular terminal liinule and the tivo hind-margined rows of lunules, 

 and in the hind-ioing all the spots in the discal row except the 

 first and last, very thin and faintly -marlced, pale-grey., with edgings 

 scarcely whiter than the ground ; hind-marginal black-edging line 

 clearly defined. Fore-vnng : no spots near base ; six spots of discal 

 row very small, thin, black, almost imperceptibly white-edged, the row 

 strongly curved outward superiorly. Hind-wing : discal row highly 

 irregular, interrupted on second subcostal and second median nervules, 

 and on submedian nervure, — the first spot (on costa) and the last (on 

 inner margin about middle) black ; a sub-basal row of three small but 

 very distinct black spots, viz., one close to costa, another in discoidal 

 cell, and the third (smallest) on inner margin ; hind-marginal black 

 spot and orange lunule well marked, the latter a little separated from 

 the former, which sometimes bears a few bluish-silvery scales ; at anal 

 angle a short linear black mark just before hind-marginal black line. 



$ Broivn, paler ; in each icing a large whitish-grey space, more or 

 less shot with pale Hue, from base over inner-marginal and louver discal 

 area ; cilia whiter throughout, except near apex of fore-wing, and in 

 hind-wing with thin uervular fuscous interruptions. Fore-icing : pale 

 space covers lower half of cell, and half (or sometimes two-thirds) of 

 the median nervules ; a dusky disco-cellular terminal lunule, indis- 

 tinctly marked. Hind-tving : pale space occupies all the wing up to 

 subcostal nervure and its second nervule ; disco-cellular lunule and 

 lower par of discal row of spots more or less distinctly represented; 



