246 Mr. se Riley’s Notes on 
LYCAENIDAE. 
THECLINAE. 
13. * Hypolycaena japhusa, sp. nov. 
(Plate VIT, figs. 9 and 10.) 
9. Upperside, fore-wing : Ground colour pale grey, apical third 
beyond a line from origin of vein 7 to anal angle considerably darker 
grey; a broad crescent-shaped white band from apex of cell to inner 
margin, broadest at vein 2 and including distal part of cell, the edges 
shading gradually into ground colour, about 4 mm. broad at inner 
margin; the discocellulars grey. Hind-wing : the bases of areas la, 
1b, lc, 2 and 4 and the whole of areas 5, 6, 7 and 8 of same grey as 
ground colour of fore-wings, remainder white, the markings of under- 
side repeated faintly, except the black marginal spot in area 2, 
which is heavier above than below. 
Underside, both wings: pure white. Fore-wing: discocellulars 
very faintly marked with grey, discal band dull brown, rather 
interrupted, submarginal and marginal bands very fine and faint. 
Hind-wing : discal yellow band very narrow and considerably 
broken, finely black-edged interiorly, sharply angled in le thence 
to inner margin at extremity of vein la; submarginal band very 
faint and cloudy, the marginal] line very fine and well defined; 
anal black spot small, surmounted by yellowish scales inwardly, 
metallic blue outwardly ; marginal black spot in area 2 surrounded 
on the inner side by pale ochreous; no spot in area 7. 
Length of fore-wing, 15-5 mm. 
B.M. Type No. Rh. 065, 9, 27 viii. 1915, Yiafusa R. (a 
tributary of the Lukanga River), near Kashitu, N.W. 
Rhodesia (H. C. Dollman). 
This may prove to bea form of H. hatita Hew., with which 
it agrees completely as to the arrangement of its underside 
* Since writing the above Mr. Talbot has found what we consider 
to be the male of this species in the Witley Museum, and has kindly 
furnished me with the following short description :— 
3 Upperside resembling hatita Hew., and ugandae Sharpe. 
Hindwing with white submarginal spot in 3 strongly developed, 
the two in 4 and 5 indistinct. Underside as in Uganda form, with 
thinner and straighter post-discal lines. 
Length of fore-wing, 15 mm. 
Hab.—Kikura River, Lufira Valley, S.E. Congo, 14 v. 1919, 1g 
allotype. In addition 1 9, 5 iv. 1919, same locality; and 1 2 from 
Buluo River, Lufira Valley, May 1919; all collected by T. A. Barns. 
dom. Deny Nagat) 
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