LYC.ENID.Ti:. 85 



163. (ib.) Lycsena Sybaris, Hopfl'er. 



^ $ LyccBiia Si/baris, Hopff., " Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch., 



1855, p. 642." 

 S Lycoena Sybaris, Wallgm., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857; Lep. 



Rliop. Caffr., p. 37. 

 ,$ ? Lycoena Sybaris, Hopff., Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 408, 



t. xxvi. ff. 6-8 (1862). 

 (? ? ,, ,, Trim. Rhop., Afr. Anst., ii. p. 242, n. 143(1866). 



Exp. al, {$) I li lin. — i in. o^ lin. ; ($) loj lin. — i in. 



^ Shining violaceous-blue ; hind-margins rather widely bordered ivith 

 fuscous, which in hind-wing is submacidar and traversed in its outer por- 

 tion hy a fine interrupted white line more pronou7iced inferiorly ; cilia 

 white, irregularly varied with dull fuscous in fore-wing, chiefly about 

 extremities of nervules, not, or very slightly so, varied in hind-wing. 

 Fore-iuing : a large, broad, conspicuous, terminal disco-cellular, fuscous 

 lunule ; sometimes, beyond it, two or three smaller fuscous spots repre- 

 senting some of the irregular discal row of the under side. Hind-unng : 

 costa bordered with greyish-fuscous ; immediately preceding hind- 

 marginal border a series of more or less indistinct thin lunulate white 

 marks, usually obsolete in upper part of wing ; a rather long, twisted, 

 subspatulate, black, white-tipped tail on first median nervulo. Under 

 SIDE. — White, faintly tinged with yellowish, with very numerous and 

 well-defined mostly rounded black spots ; in each wing a disco -cellular 

 terminal lunule, an irrcgidar discal row, two regular submarginal roivs 

 of spots, and a hind-marginal black line. Fore-ioing : costa narrowly 

 edged with black from a little before middle to apex ; a strongly- 

 marked longitudinal black streak from base inferiorly bounding costal 

 nervure almost to its extremity ; below this an oblique upward-curvino- 

 irregular black streak, from between median and submedian nervures, 

 penetrating discoidal cell rather beyond its middle ; inner margin 

 narrowly edged with fuscous-grey ; a minute spot immediately above 

 terminal disco-cellular lunule ; discal row highly irregular, its six spots 

 (exclusive of a minute one next costa) arranged obliquely in pairs, the 

 spots confluent in the middle and lower pairs ; submarginal rows of 

 six spots each, the inner row with larger spots, increasing in size down- 

 ward. Hind-wing : at base a short black streak from costal to sub- 

 median nervure ; a sub-basal row of four spots ; irregular discal row of 

 eight spots, of which the third and fifth are farthest from base ; inner 

 submarginal row of eight, outer of seven spots, — the last three or four 

 of outer row spangled with bluish-silvery exteriorly. 



$ Fuscous, with more or less 'white on discs, on which the terminal 

 disco-cellular lunules, part of discal row of spots, and {in hind-wing) sub- 

 marginal rovjs of spots arc more or less conspicuously shown, but more 

 suffusedly than on tinder side; bases rather thinly and narrowly suffused 

 ivith violaceous blue, extending along inner margins to a little beyond 

 middle. Under side. — As in $. 



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