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173. (1.) Deudorix Antalus, (Hopffer). 



Dipsas Antalus, HopfP., Monatsb. K. Akad. Wissens. Berlin, 1855, p. 641, 



n. 15; and ( c? ? ) 

 Sitlion Antalus, Peters' lleise Mossamb,, — Ins., p. 400, pi. xxv. ff. 7-9 [ ? ] 



(1862). 

 cJ $ Lj/ccena Ania, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3d ser., i. p. 402 (1862). 

 (J $ Deudorix Anta, Hewits., III. D. Lep., p. 25, pi. v., ff. 49-51 3 also 



lahnenns Antalus, p. 55 (1863 and 1865). 

 $ ? SWion BatiMi, Trim., Ehop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 232, n. 135 (1866). 



Exp. al., {$) I in. oi— 5 lin. ; ($) i in. 3 — 7 lin. 



^ Shining ceneous-h'own, shot with violet from bases ; cilia greyish- 

 white. Fore-tcing : inner marginal tuft of hairs black. Hind-iving : 

 a rather long, linear, black, white-tipped tail at extremity of third 

 median nervule ; two black spots on hind-margin, respectively just 

 above and below origin of tail ; lobe of anal angle marked with a 

 greenish silvery-scaled black spot. Under side. — rale-greyish ; in 

 loth wings an incomplete, brownish-grey, whitish-edged ring, closing 

 discoidal cell, a row of similar rings, confluent, forming a rather broad 

 transverse band beyond middle, and a submarginal row of brownish- 

 grey lunular markings, indistinctly white-edged inwardly and out- 

 wardly. Hind-wing : near base, two or three whitish-ringed fuscous 

 (sometimes dull-ferruginous) spots, forming a short transverse row ; 

 hind-marginal spot above tail marked inwardly by a yellowish lunule, 

 that below tail all bluish-silvery; spot on anal lobe inwardly scaled 

 with bluish-silvery. 



$ Bluer than $, excejjting near hind-margins, vjhich are Iroadly- 

 Irown ; markings similar ; a dusky disco-cellular terminal streak in 

 each wing. Under side. — Quite similar, the markings more distinct. 



From Boisduval's description {Faiine Ent. do Madag., ij-c, p. 24) I was 

 led — as stated in my book above cited — to consider his Ltjciena Bat/keli, as 

 identical with the South -African species which in 1862 I had described as 

 LyccBua Anta, but which I subsequently discovered Hopffer had previously 

 received from East Africa and named Dipsas Antalus. Boisduval's figure on 

 pi. 3 {op. cit.) appeared to me as a rough and highly-coloured representation 

 of A^itahis, Hopff., of which I had seen several Malagasy specimens. Having 

 lately (18S6) seen the figures of Batilceli given by Grandidier in the Lepi- 

 doptera volume of the Hist. Physiijue, Nat. et Pol it. de Madag. (Paris, 1885) 

 on pi. 29, I am, however, satisfied that it is a distinct species from Antalus. 

 It is apparently a $ that is figured, and the upper side is depicted as con- 

 siderably darker than in 5 Antalus, especially in the hind-wing, the dull 

 violaceous-blue of the fore-wing being better defined, but that of the hind- 

 wing being reduced to a dull pale longitudinal ray from base between median 

 and submedian nervures. On the under side, the markings generally are 

 redder, less regular, and with their whitish edgings better developed ; in 

 the fore-wing there is a linear red hind-marginal edging from apex to 

 second median nervule, and in the hind-wing the three sub-basal white- 

 ringed spots are larger and conspicuously red. 



There cannot be any doubt, on comparison, of the identity of Ilopfifer's 

 East-African Antalus and my South-African Aula. Both sexes are very 

 variable in size, and this is the case with individuals from the same locality. 



This is a near ally of the well-kno\^Ti D. Isocrates (Fab.), of Indin, but 



