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lapped by lobe of fore-wiug ; above aud beyond tliis patch tlie costal 

 black border runs pretty evenly from base to apex ; close to Lind- 

 margin, two rather large black spots between second median nervule 

 and submedian nervure ; a smaller black spot, marked outwardly with 

 some greenish-silvery scales, on anal-angular lobe ; a thin but very 

 distinct black linear edging all along hind-margin ; bases of cilia pure- 

 white, forming a very distinct line immediately beyond the black linear 

 edging of hind-margin, and conspicuously margining and tipping the 

 tails (which are mesially rufous) on first median nervule and submedian 

 nervure. Under side. — Very pale-grey, ivith a faint yellowish tinge; the 

 following rufous-ochreous, very thinly fuscous-edged, narroio transverse 

 strim common to both ivings, viz. : — one near base, not extending below 

 median nervure in fore- wing, and angulated and interrupted near inner 

 margin in hind-wing ; a short stria marking extremity of discoidal 

 cell ; two (not parallel) beyond middle, becoming fuscous near inner 

 margin of fore- wing, and biangulated towards that of hind-wing ; and 

 a hind-marginal edging stria ; all these stria3 more or less faintly mar- 

 gined with whitish, except the hind-marginal one, which in hind -wing 

 is internally bounded by a well-defined white line. Fore-wing : inner- 

 marginal area before middle smooth, silvery. Hind-wing : basal lobe 

 very prominent, and a sub- vesicular swelling near base ; some fuscous 

 irroration near hind-margin ; the middle hind-marginal black spot 

 obsolete, but the upper one and that on anal-angular lobe well-marked, 

 conspicuously edged with greenish-silvery, and inwardly bounded with 

 golden-yellow scaling ; base of cilia conspicuously white, as on upper side. 



^ Much paler and duller ; the Uuc in hoth wings heconiing ohscurely 

 whitish in disc. Fore-wing : a dusky striola marking extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell. Hind-wing : a white line inwardly bounding linear black 

 hind-marginal edging ; black spots near anal angle large ; above them, 

 just before white line, two or three smaller more obscure similar spots. 

 Under side. — As in ^. 



In one $ from Delagoa Bay, the blue of the upper side is scarcely 

 visible, the whole surface except for some very obscure bluish-grey 

 scaling being pale fuscous-brownish. The under side is quite as usual. 



The last-named specimen together with a normal representative of each 

 sex were kindly lent to me by Mr. H. Grose Smith, who received them from 

 Delagoa Bay. From the same locality Mrs. Monteiro, in 1878, was so good 

 as to send me a pair ; and a fine ^ , now in the South-African Museitm, was 

 also one of her captures in the year 1S83. 



Hewitson (op. cit.) notices that his example of this butterfly from the Zam- 

 besi had the under side darker than usual and of a rufous-grey, but be does 

 not mention the sex of this specimen. 



H. Cceculus (J , in its deep-blue black-bordered upper-side colouring and 

 glistening badge of the hind-wing, has quite the appearance of an loJaus, but 

 the general structure and under-side pattern in both sexes justify Hewitson's 

 location of the species in the genus Hupolyrama. On the under side, the 

 well-marked stria before the middle is a good distinguishing character, neither 

 H. Philippus nor //. Buxtoni pi^esenting it. 



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