72 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



hh. Eastern Islands, — Madagascar {E. L. Laijard). "Bourbon." — 

 Boisduval. ]\Iauritius. " Johanna, Comoro Islands (C. IF. 

 Beicsher)." — Var. B. — A. G. Butler. "Rodriguez (Gulliver)." 

 —A. G. Butler. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Gaboon Biver (Theor'm)." — Aurivillius. 



" Guinea," — Hopffer. 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — " Atbara Biver " [Soudan]. — A. G. Butler. 



C. Extra-Tropical North Africa, 



b. Mediterranean Coast. — Algeria: Bougie. "Egypt." — Hopffer, 



III. Europe. — Spain and Italy. — Coll. Brit. ]\Ius. " South France, Cor- 

 sica, Turkey, Central Europe." — Auct. 



IV. Asia. 



A. Southern Ilegion. — "West Asia." — Staudinger. "Arabia." — 

 Hopffer. 



Section E. — Under side grey or brownish-grey ; all markings 

 white-edged ; discal markings not much darker than ground-colour, 

 more or less confluent ; hind-marginal series of spots distinct, preceded 

 by a brownish line; fore-wing with a rather ill-defined longitudinal 

 basi-costal blackish or brownish stripe ; hind-wing with very distinct 

 sub-basal, round, black, white-ringed spots. 



Z. Jesous (Gucr.), Macalcnga, Trim., 3Ioriqua, Wallcngr., JVatalcnsis, 

 Trim. 



155. (37.) Lycaena Jesous, (Guuriu). 



^ Pohjoimnatus Jesous, Gucr., Lefebv. Voy. Abyss., vi. p. 383, pi. 11, 



ff. 3,4(1847). 

 ^ $ Lyaena Jesous, Wnllengr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Ilandl., 1S57 ; Lep. 



Bhop. Calfr. p. 39. 

 (^9 „ ,, Trim., Bhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 250, n. 150 (1866). 



^ Lamjndes Agave, Walk., Entomologist, 1S70, p. 53, n. 48 [as 9-] 



Uxp. al, {$) ll-| lin. — i in. i lin. ; ($) 1 1^ lin. — i in. 

 ^ Lilac-hluc, with a strong lyinkish tinge ; a vcri/ narrow hind- 

 inarginal Uackish edging ; cilia white, in fore-wing indistinctly spotted 

 with blackish on nervules. Hind-unng : two indistinct blackish spots 

 on hind-margin, one on either side of first median nervule ; no tail. 

 Under side. — Brownish-tchite in fore-wing, grcgish-wkitc in hind-wing, 

 ivith transverse, ivhite-edged, hroivnish fascia', and Hack sjwts ; in each 

 wing — a short, white-bordered brown streak closing cell, — a rather 

 oblique, inferiorly irregular, submacular fascia beyond middle, from costa 

 to first median nervule, — a brownish lunulate streak, followed by a row 

 of black spots (some indistinct), — and a blackish line on hind-margi- 

 nal edge. Fore-icing : a longitudinal stripe along subcostal to beyond 

 end of cell, black at base, thence suffused and ferruginous-brown ; in 

 ■ cell, near extremity, a blackish, white-edged spot, touching median 

 nervure. Hind-wing : a basal oblique black stripe ; a row of four 



