ii8 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Hypolycmna Cccculus. 



I. South Africa 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenco Marques (Mrs. Monteiro). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. Soiitli Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Angola (Pogge)." — Dewitz. 



b. Eastern Coast. — "Zambesi." — Hewitson. " Querimba." — 



Hopffer. "Tchouaka (i2(#-ay)."— Oberthitr. 

 bi. Interior. "Tete." — Hopffer. "Lake Nyassa." — Kirby, Cat. 

 Hewits. Coll. 



179. (2.) Hypolycsena Philippus, (Fabricius). 



^ Hesperia Philippus, Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 283, n. 87 (1793). 

 lolaus Orejus, Hopff., Monatsb. K. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1855, p. 641 ; 



and Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 401, pi. xxv. ff. 10, 11 [$] 



(1862). 

 $ 2T/iecIa Orejus, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857; Lep. 



Rhop. Caffr., p. 35. 

 $ Hypolycama Philijpus, Hewits., 111. Diurn. Lep., p. 50, pi. 22, ff. 15, 16 



(1865) 

 ^ ^ A^nUypodia Erylus, Trim,, Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 228, n. 132 (1866). 



Ex/p. cd., I in. 1-4 lin, 



^ Dull-hroivn, with a more or less intense changing pink-violet 

 lustre ; a brown line along hind-marginal edge. Fore-iuing : covering 

 bases of median nervures, an ill-defined dusky patch. Hincl-iving : 

 hind-marginal line edged with white on both sides (except near apex) ; 

 touching it internally, between second median nervule and anal angle, 

 three black spots, of which the first is inwardly edged by an orange, 

 the second by a whitish lunule, and the third, on lobe of angle, small, 

 broadly orange, with an inward white lunule ; tails black, white-edged 

 and tipped. Cilia greyish, paler in hind-wing. Under side. — Whitish- 

 grey, tvith glistening white-edged orange-ochreous transverse sti'ice ; com- 

 mon to both wings, a well-marked stria beyond middle, in hind-wing 

 interrupted, and acutely angulated beyond first median nervule, — a 

 submarginal, sublunulate thin stria, also angulated in hind-wing, — and 

 a hind-marginal edging line ; in each wing a double striola closing 

 celL IIi7id-iving : a conspicuous spot, coloured like stri«, near base, 

 between costal and subcostal nervures ; orange lunules of first and 

 third spots near anal angle more conspicuous, the third marked with 

 bluish or greenish-silvery scales, a patch of which also marks the inter- 

 val between these two spots. 



$ Brownish-grey, ivithout violet lustre ; a faint bluish tinge near 

 bases. Fore-iuing : costa with a narrow ochreous edge ; sometimes an 

 indistinct paler fascia on disc, widening downwards from its origin on 

 third median nervule. Hind-wing : two suhniarginal roivs of white 

 lunular markings (of which the inner is broader) between second sub- 

 costal and submedian ncrvure ; the outer row ends with the three 



