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by four short distinct dashes; a short costal and subcostal con- 

 fluent mark touching tlie spot closing the cell, below which is another 

 short dash; outside the cell s[)ot are tlircc irregular confluent spots, 

 beyond which is the postmedian row of spots moderately evenly 

 curved, followed by the subterminal row, some of which are slightly 

 iridescent. 



Genitalia : the clasps are very broad and are evenly curved, but 

 if flattened somewhat wedge-shaped ; the bristles are fine and not 

 long ; the tegumen is of moderate size, and the falces are small ; 

 the bristles line and shortish ; the aedoeagus is shortish, suddenly 

 reduced all round about the middle, from whence it gradually tapers 

 in a curve to a fine point. The tectorius is very reduced. 



This is a very distinct species and was first described by 

 Grose-Smith as Lycaenesthes grammica in 1893 (I.e.). 

 In 1898 Miss Sharpe described her lonisae, as it had not 

 at that time been discovered that the former species had 

 nothing to do with the ^enua Lycaenesthes ; /om'sae therefore 

 falls as a synonym to grammica. 



Tarucus sybaris, HopiTer. Plates XIV, fig. 10 ; 

 XVI, fig. 9, and XX, fig. 28. 



Lycaena sybaris, Hopff., Monats. K. Preuss. Akad. Wis- 

 sensch., p. 612 (1855). 



(J. Blue tinged with mauve in both wings. The primaries with 

 a black spot closing the cell, and broadish black margins; the 

 secondaries with a submarginal row of black spots from the anal 

 angle to the costa, decreasing in size as they apj)roach the costa; 

 outside this row is a fine white line, which is succeeded by the black 

 termen of uniform and moderately narrow width. The fringes 

 have the basal half black and the outer half grey with a slight 

 indication of tessellation. Underside white spotted with black, 

 the contrast being sharper than in any other sjoecies. The primaries 

 have the usual basal marks, the wedge-shaped mark being generally 

 somewhat L-shaped ; a large spot closes the cell with a small one 

 between it and the costa, beyond whicli is another somewhat larger 

 one between veins 6 and 9, between veins 5 and 3 arc two confluent 

 spots, and two more confluent spots further inwards are below vein 3, 

 between 5 and G is a single isolated spot, shifted right out on to the 

 postmedian curved series of six intcrnervular spots, this being near 

 the margin and very close to the subterminal series of internervular 

 spots. Secondaries with three basal spots and four subbasal spots 

 below each other; the upper two basal spots are connected to each 



