LYCLENID^E. 43 



Bashee River, KafFraria (J. H. Bowker). Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Damaraland (J. A. Bell). Coll. Tri. 



" Querimba." Hopffer, in Peters' Reise. 



144. Lycsena Hintza. 



Lycsena Hintza, mihi. N. Sp. 

 ? . Lycaena Rosiraon, Wallgr., Lep. JRhop. Cqffr., p. 38. 



Allied to L. Rosimon, Fab. 

 Exp. 11 lin. 1 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Shining violet-blue : a narrow hind-marginal blackish 

 edging. Hind-wing : the usual hind-marginal blackish spot. 

 UNDER-SIDE. White, with black stria; and spots: in each 

 wing a stria closing cell (in fore-wing from costa and broad, 

 in hind-wing short, thin, and angulated) ; an irregular, 

 much-interrupted, transver&e row of conspicuous spots beyond 

 middle ; two submarginal rows of spots, the inner of elongate 

 sublinear, the outer of small rounded, spots ; and a black 

 edging line. Fore-wing : subcostal stripe continued on costa 

 to end of cell ; below it, a broad upward-curving stria from 

 submedian next base ; last three spots of transverse row 

 confluent. Hind-wing : short subcostal stria divided into 

 two spots ; beyond it a transverse row of four spots ; third 

 spot of transverse row of eight far beyond the rest, almost 

 touching second spot of inner submarginal row ; last two 

 spots of outer row large, faintly bluish-silvery-dotted. 



? . White : shot with violaceous-bluish from bases : the 

 black markings of under-side suffusedly marked. Fore-wing : 

 costa and hind-margin clouded with fuscous, on the latter 

 obliterating the markings and joining the three outermost 

 spots of transverse row : a whitish spot at anal angle. 

 Hind-wing : costa narrowly fuscous-clouded. UNDER-SIDE. 

 As in $ : bluish-silvery of two spots of hind-wing brighter. 

 Cilia in both sexes white, in fore-wing spotted with 

 blackish. 



There can be little doubt that the specimen noted by Wallengren as 

 Eosimon belongs to this species. His description is not detailed, but he 

 particularly notes the cilia as white, spotted in fore-wings with black, a 

 character very constant in Hintza y while in Eosimon the entire cilia are as 

 constantly conspicuously black-spotted. The blue $ at once distinguishes 

 the species from Eosimon, and denotes a relationship to Theophrastus. The 

 ? of Eosimon presents a much broader white discal field, in hind-wing 

 uncrossed by transverse row of spots ; the basal blue is more brilliant and 

 with a greenish tinge: and with regard to the under-side, the spots of the 

 common inner submarginal row are much broader ; while in hind- wing the 



