LYC^ENIDvE. 



support a lobe at anal angle, prolonged into a very ^ long, 

 broad, twisted tail. Legs short, very thick : first joint of 

 tarsi as long as the other four together. 



LARVA ? Onisciform ; with a dorsal row of prominences. 



The characters given of this very interesting Genus are 

 those presented by the two South African species, L. Alcides 

 and L. dermaptera. The former seems more generally 

 distributed, occurring as far to the South and West as 

 Knysna, while the latter has only hitherto been brought from 

 Natal. Species of Loxura are found in India and the Eastern 

 Archipelago. 



125. Loxura Alcides. 



Papilio Alcides, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 96, f. D, E. 

 Hesperia Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 283, n. 86. 

 Myrina Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 594, n. 4. 



E. DoubL, List Lep. Brit. Mus., II, p. 21. 



DoubL, Jfestw., Hewits., Gen.Diurn. Lep. 



Var. Papilio Corax, Cram., Pap. 'Exot., pi. 379, f. D, E. 



Herbst, Ins.Schmett., X, pi. 286, 



[f. 1,2, 



Loxura Alcides, Duncan, Nat. Lib. Ent., V, pi. 25, f. 3. 

 Exp. 1 in. 1 iin. 1 in. 7 lin. 



$ . Intense, metallic, ultramarine-blue. Fore-wing : blue 

 forming a large semicircle based on inner- margin, filling 

 cell, but not reaching costa, which is rather widely black- 

 bordered ; on hind-margin & ferruginous-red patch forming a 

 sort of border, strongly convex inwardly (being widest below 

 apex), and separated from the blue by a black stripe, which 

 widens at anal angle. Hind-wing : all blue, except on 

 margins, of which costa and hind-margin have a black 

 border of moderate width, and inner-margin a broad, dark- 

 grey one ; anal -angular lobe and tail ferruginous-grey, 

 irrorated with greyish-white; edging base of lobe superiorly 

 a streak of bluish scales ; on lobe, a ferruginous spot. 

 UNDER-SIDE. Ferruginous-brown, with an ochreous tinge; 

 in both wings (more distinct in hind-wing) an ochreous line 

 closing cell, and a common transverse ochreous streak beyond 

 middle. Fore-wing : streak only reaches first median nervule 

 from near costal edge, which is dusted with yellowish ; apex 

 closely yellow-dusted ; inner-margin pale-greyish, gradually 

 shading off into ground-colour. Hind-wing : streak well- 

 marked, continuous from costa to beyond third median 

 nervule, where it is abruptly angulated, and is thence white 



