250 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



first and third median nervules two black spots, dotted with 

 bluish-silvery, and bounded interiorly by an orange crescent, 

 the lower spot the smaller. 



" March ; not common." D'Urban, in litt. 



The $ figured by Hopffer is paler in ground-colour, but 

 browner, without any blue suffusion. In both sexes he 

 describes and figures the black spot on upper-side of hind- 

 wing as inwardly orange-luuuled, and notes a $ from Senegal 

 in which the spot next anal angle is similarly coloured. 



The under-side of this Lyctena presents a close resemblance to that of the 

 much larger L. Celteus (type). 



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



" Querimba. Senegal." Hopffer, in Peters' Reise. 



150. Lycsena Jesous. 



Polyommatus Jesous, Guer., Toy. en Abyss, par Lefebr., 



[p. 383, t. 11, f. 3, 4. $. 



Lycaena Jesous, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 39. 

 Exp. 10 lin. 1 in. 



$ . Lilac-blue, with a strong pinkish tinge ; a very narrow 

 hind-marginal blackish edging ; cilia white, in fore-wing 

 indistinctly spotted with blackish. Hind-wing : two indis- 

 tinct blackish spots on hind-margin, one on either side of 

 third median nervule. UNDER-SIDE. Greyish-white in 

 fore-wing, white in hind-iving, with transverse, white- edged, 

 brownish fascia, and black spots : in each wing a short, 

 white-bordered brown streak closing cell, a rather oblique, 

 irregular, submacular fascia beyond middle, from costa to 

 third median nervule, a brownish lunulate streak, followed 

 by a ro Dv of black spots (some indistinct), and a blackish 

 line on hmd-maiginal edge. Fore-wing : a longitudinal 

 stripe along subcostal to beyond end of cell, black at base, 

 thence suffused and ferruginous-brown ; in cell, near extremity, 

 a blackish, white -edged spot, touching median nervure. 

 Hind-wing : a basal oblique black stripe ; a row of four very 

 conspicuous white-edged spots before middle, and two similar 

 spots respectively at costal origin and inner-marginal end of 

 macular fascia ; two black spots, of upper-side, outwardly 

 bluish - silvery - dusted, interiorly faintly orange - lunuled ; 

 base irrorated with pale -bluish. 



$ . Dull-brownish, clouded with whitish on discs, faintly 

 shot with bluish from bases ; in each wing a distinct disco- 

 cellular fuscous lunule, and a marginal row of spots (very 



