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spots of hind-wing larger than in $ . UNDER-SIDE. More 

 conspicuously marked, especially lunular white stripe, which 

 is much broader and whiter, particularly in hind-wing. 



Hopffer considers Zeller's Hoffmannseggii an African variety of Telicanus* 

 stating that specimens from Nubia and the (Jape are referable to it; but 

 Staudinger notes it in his "Catalog der Lepidopteren Europa's," 1861, as 

 an American species. My description is made from South African specimens 

 only. Hopffer states that specimens from the Cape, Mozambique, and 

 Guinea are the largest, those from Egypt and Arabia the smallest, while 

 European examples hold the middle place : the size of the South African 

 specimens is, however, very variable. 



Common. Gardens, and open ground. 



November (b) June (b). 



Fond of settling on flowers, and easily taken. Habits similar to those 

 of L. Bcetica and L. Lingeus. 



Cape Town. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. Coll. Tri. 



" From Graham's Town to King William's Town." W. 

 D'Urban, in litt. 



Butterworth, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). Madagascar. 

 Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Southern Europe. Cape of Good Hope. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Damaraland. Coll. C. J. Andersson. 



" Cape. Guinea. Egypt. Arabia." Hopffer, in Peters' 

 Reise. 



140. Lycsena Lingeus. 



Papilio Lingeus, Cram., Pap. JExoL, pi. 379, f. F, GK 

 Lyngeus, Herbst, Ins. Schmett., X, pi. 288, 



[f. 1, 2. 



Polyommatus Lingeus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 658, n. 



[139. 

 Lycaena Lingeus, E. Doubl., List Lep. B. Mus., p. 40. 



Exp. 11 lin. 1 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Dull violaceous-bluish, very glossy (in some specimens 

 shot with silvery-greenish) : a blackish hind-marginal line ; 

 cilia white, irregularly varied with blackish, chiefly in fore- 

 wing. UNDER-SIDE. Pale brownish-grey, with transverse 

 white-edged darker fascite, and a brown cloud in hind-wing. 

 Fore-wing : from costa, a single stria near base, curving 

 inward to origin of median nervure, a short fascia (of which 

 the outer white reaches below median nervure) crossing cell, 

 another similar fascia at extremity of cell ; beyond middle, a 

 submacular fascia from costa to third median nervule ; along 

 hind-margin a whitish stripe, interrupted with brown, and 

 containing a row of small, dark, lunular spots. Hind-wing : 



