ii6 SOUTII-xVFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



there are two linear black tails of only moderate length on each hind- 

 win »• ; but in the West- African group represented by H. Faunus 

 (Drury), IT. Antifaunus (Doubl.), and II. Lehooia (Hewits.), the corre- 

 sponding two tails, and especially that on the submedian nervure, are 

 greatly elongated, broad, and white, while there is a similar but shorter 

 additional tail on the second median nervule. 



About thirty species are recorded. North India has yielded seven, 

 and the Indo-Malayan Islands nine ; while only three are known from 

 the Austro-Malayan Islands. Africa has as many as thirteen, but of 

 these five only have been discovered in Southern Africa. The most 

 widely distributed of the five are 11. Pliilippus and H. Lara (Linn.), 

 inhabiting both North and South Tropical Africa ; H. Cccculus (HopfF.) 

 is really South Tropical, only just entering the South-African Sub- 

 Eegion at Delagoa Bay, H. Hirundo, Walleugr., and H. Buxtoni, 

 Hewits., extend over a large part of Eastern South Africa, but do not 

 appear to be recorded from any place within the Tropics ; both range 

 into the eastern districts of the Cape Colony, but while Hirundo is not 

 uncommon there, only one capture of Buxtoni so far to the south and 

 west is known to mo. H. Lara is the only species generally distri- 

 buted throughout South Africa ; it is common about Capo Town. 



The last-named species is very unlike nearly all its congeners, the 

 upper side colouring being in both sexes of a glistening pale-ferruginous, 

 shot basally with a pearly gloss. At the posterior angle of each wing 

 there are two or more conspicuous black spots in white rings. These 

 ocelli recur less distinctly in H. Eahc (Boisd.), from Madagascar, and 

 in H. Hirundo ; and these two species — but especially the latter, with 

 its single long white-fringed tail at the posterior angle of the hind- 

 ■wiiiCT — serve to connect Lara with the rest of the genus. 



178. (1.) Hypolycaena Cseculus, (Hopfter). 



lolaus Ccecuhis, Hopff., Monatsb. d. K. Akad Wissensch. Berl., 1855, p. 



642, n. 17; and Peters' Reise Mossamb.-Ins., p. 402, pi. xxv. 



ff. 12-14 (1862). 

 HijpoJycoina Cceculus, Hewits., 111. D. Lcp., p. 52, n. 14 (1S65). 



Uxp. al, I in. 2 — 4 lin. 



$ Bright suhmdallic blue ; forc-iving with very broad apical hind- 

 marginal, hind-ioing with moderately broad costcd-apical, black border. 

 Fore-iving : costal edge before middle pale-reddish ; blue only thinly 

 covering costal border before middle, and leaving inner-marginal lobe 

 close to base uniform grey, but extending from base to beyond middle, 

 — its outer edge rather deeply indented with black on median nervules ; 

 hind-marginal black border (in two out of three specimens) extending 

 broadly and evenly to posterior angle (in the third narrowing to a 

 point). Hind-wing : on costa at base, a large subovate glistening 

 grey patch, containing a transverse dull-fuscous mark, partly over- 



