38 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



King William's Town. Coll. W. D'Urban. 



" Amazoulu Country. Madagascar. Bourbon. *Mauri- 

 tius." Boisd. 



Guernsey. Brighton, England (1859). Vide "Entomo- 

 logist's Weekly Intelligencer," No. 160, p. 25. 



139. Lycsena Telicanus. 



Papilio Telicanus, Herbst, Nat. Bek. Ins. Schmett., 



[pi. 305, f. 69. 



Hubn., Enc. Schmett.Pap., f. 371-2, 



[553-4. 



Bseticus, Esper, Eur. Schm., t 91, f. 2. $ . 

 Polyommatus Telicanus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 655. 

 Lycaena Telicanus, Boisd., Faune de Mad., &c., p. 24. 



Hpfr; in Peters' Reise, p. 406. 



Lycaena Namaqua (Boisd. MS.}, E. Doubl., List Lep. 



[Brit. Mus., p. 42. 



Var. Lycasna Hoffmannseggii, Zeller, Ent. Zeit., 1850, 



[p. 312 ? (secund. Hpfr.). 

 Exp. 10 lin. 1 in. 2 lin. 



. Pale, glossy, bluish-violaceous, with a pinkish tinge : 

 a blackish line edging hind-margin ; cilia whitish, unspotted. 

 Hind-wing : on each side of third median nervule, an indistinct 

 blackish spot ; between spots and hind-marginal edging a 

 white line, often indistinct. UNDER-SIDE. Brownish-grey , 

 with double transverse white striae enclosing darker-brownish : 

 common to both wings a double stria before middle, 

 another closing cell, and confluent at origin of first median 

 with a third, much arched, submacular similar stria quite 

 across wing, a submarginal, continuous, white, lunular 

 stripe, a confluent hind - marginal row of white - ringed 

 sublunular spots, and a linear blackish edging. Fore-wing : 

 inner white edge of first stria connected with base by a 

 longitudinal white streak, surmounted by a dark-brown dash 

 on subcostal nervure. Hind-wing : base dusky, with two 

 whitish streaks (one on costal edge, the other more transverse) ; 

 two hind-marginal spots (being the last of the row) conspi- 

 cuous, ringed with brilliant bluish or greenish-silvery, and in 

 a more or less complete circle of orange or ochreous-yellow. 



? . Greyish-brown, shot with vivid blue from bases over 

 discs ; the white-edged stria closing cell, with the confluent 

 stria beyond it more or less distinctly marked (less apparent 

 in hind-wing) ; marginal lunular stripe and row of spots very 

 indistinct in fore-wing, well-marked in hind-wing : two black 



