RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALI3. 



the inner commences with a costal gold spot) becoming 

 confluent and bright-orange, with a gold streak before anal 

 angle of hind-wing, and a hind-marginal, black, edging 

 line. Fore-wing : at base, two purple spots, and a short 

 transverse streak a little beyond them, not gilt ; beyond 

 second fascia, a costal spot and a fascia from costa to first 

 median, coloured like other fasciae. Hind-wing : seven 

 spots, of which the larger have gilt centres, in basal region, 

 which is greyish ; anal-angular projection of ground-colour, 

 its black spots very conspicuous : a remarkable longitudinal 

 fold, clothed with silky pale-brown hairs, runs from base 

 between median and submedian nervures as far as orange 

 colouring before anal angle. 



? . Paler ; blue much duller and of smaller area. Fore- 

 wing : orange spots beyond cell expanded into transverse 

 bands, sometimes confluent on median nervules ; a short 

 dull-whitish band before them, crossing cell and joining 

 blue. Hind-wing : a dusky band from costa crosses a 

 dull-whitish space before hind-marginal border ; anal-angular 

 orange pale and dull ; lunular marginal line white. UNDER- 

 SIDE. As in $ , but fasciae less brilliant. 



A $ specimen from Natal, in my collection, is very dull and suffused in 

 colour, the orange bands being replaced by indistinct ochrey-whitish. An 

 example in the British Museum, from Sierra Leone, I find mentioned in my 

 notes as very brightly and distinctly marked ; the short band of fore-wing 

 crossing cell being orange (Wailengren notes a similar ? ), red-ochrepus 

 replacing the purple of the under-side fasciae, and the two hind-marginal 

 striae enclosing a red space. 



This brilliantly-ornamented species is very closely allied to A. Viilcanus> 

 Fab. (Etolus, Cram.), but differs in the marking of the under-surface, 

 Vulcanus having a conspicuous additional fascia in the basal region, in place 

 of the numerous spots of Natalensis, and a similar hind-marginal fascia 

 (confluent with third fascia in each wing) instead of the two striae. Vulcanus 

 <j> , too, has no blue colouring above. Godart gives the fasciae as the 

 ground-colour, and vice versa in describing the under-surface of Vulcanus. 

 Wailengren evidently had not access to Doubleday and Westwood's 

 " Genera," or he would not have created his new species, Massilicatzi. 

 Neither he nor Hopffer mention the curious hairy fold in hiud-wing of $ ; 

 which is also a character of Vulcanus. 



Natal (W. Guienzius). Coil. Tri. 



Port Natal. Delagoa Bay. Sierra Leone. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Damaraland. Coll. C. J. Andersson. 



132. Amblypodia Erylus. 



Polyommatus Erylus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 633, 



[n. 60. 



lolaus Orejus, Hpfr., Monatsberichte d. Konigl. Akad. 

 [der Wissensch. zu Berlin, 1855, p. 641. 



