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D. Kaffraria Propci-. — Bashee River {J. II. BowJicr). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. "Lower Umkomazi." — /. //. 



Boivlicr. 

 h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (./. M. Hutchinson). 



F. Zululand. — Napoleon Valley {J. II. Bowker). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Aijres). 



Section D. — Uuder side brownish-grey; markings darker, confluent, 

 broadly whitish-edged, forming irregular siuuated fascias throughout; 

 in fore-wing a longitudinal costal whitish-edged stripe from base, united 

 at its extremity to a similar but transverse stripe on costa before middle ; 

 two hind-marginal spots of hind-wing near hind-margin ringed witli 

 glittering bluish or greenish silvery. 



L. Telicamcs, Lang [tailed]. 



154. (36.) Lycsena Telicanus, (Lang). 



Papilio Bcetims, Esp., Eur. Schmett., i. Suppl., t. xci. f. 2 $ (17S4). 

 Papilio Telicamis, Lang, " Verz. seiu. Scbmett., ii. p. 47, u. 3 8 7-3 89 



(1789)." 

 S 9 Papilio Telicamis, Ilubn., Eur. Schmett., i. ff. 371-372, 553-554 



(1798-1S03). 

 Papilio Telicanus, Herbst., Nat. Bek. Ins., Schmett., xi. t. 305, ff. 6-9 



(1804). 

 Polyommatus Telicanus, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 655, n. 128 (1823). 

 Lyc<x7ia Telicanus, Hopff., Peters' Pteise n. Mossamb., Ins., p. 406 (1862). 

 (J $ Lycoena Telicanus, Trim., Rhop. AFr. Aust., ii. p. 238, n. 139 (1866). 

 Var. A. — Polyonwiatus Ilojfmannseggii, Zell., " Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1850, 



p. 312 ?." 

 Lyccena Ilofmannseg'jii, Herr.-Schaeff., Schmett. Eur., i. pi. 133 f 644 



(i853)-* 

 Var. B. — Lycoina pulchra, P. P. Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond 187^ 

 p. 524, pi. X. flf. 7, 8{c? ?). 



Exp. al, Q) III lin. — i iu, 2 lin ; ($) i in. — i in. 3 liu. 



$ Pale, glossy, hhdsh-violaceous, with a pinldsh tinge; a blackish 

 line edging hind-margin ; cilia whitish, unspotted. Hind-ioing : on 

 each side of first median nervulo an indistinct blackish spot ; between 

 spots and hind-marginal edging a white line, often indistinct ; tail on 

 first median nervule long, linear, black, white tij^ped. Under side. — 

 Brownish-gi^ey, with dotihle transverse ivliite strice enclosing darker- 

 hrownish ; common to both wings — a double stria before middle, — 

 another closing cell, and confluent at origin of third median with a 

 third, much arched, submacular similar discal stria quite across wing, — 

 a submarginal, continuous, white, lunular stripe, — a confluent hind- 

 marginal row of white-ringed sublunular spots, — and a linear blackish 

 edging. Fore-iuing : inner white edge of first stria connected with 

 base by a longitudinal white streak, surmounted by a dark-brown dash 

 on subcostal nervuro. Illnd-iving : base dusky, with two whitish streaks 

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