252 RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALIS. 



each wing, a thin streak closing cell, a transverse row of 

 spots beyond middle (in hind-wing very irregular and widely 

 interrupted), a lunulate paler streak (in hind-wing regularly 

 denticulate), and a submarginal row of dots (indistinct in 

 fore-wing, slightly tinged with ochreous in hind-wing). 

 Hind-wing : near base, a transverse row of three separate 

 spots. 



? . " Same colour as $ . Fore-wing : a rather wide, 

 brown, hind-marginal border ; a central black lunule. Hind- 

 wing: on hind-margin, a row of brown spots." (Godt., loc. 

 cit.) 



The only example I have seen is the $ specimen in the British Museum. 



South Africa. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



" Cape of Good Hope." Cram. 



153. Lycaena Cissus. 



Polyommatus Cissus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 683. 

 Lycaena Cissus, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 40, n. 13. 

 Catharina, trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc., 3rd Ser., I, 



[p. 281. 

 Exp. 1 in. 1 lin. 1 in. 5 lin. 



$ . Dull violaceous-blue ; costa and hind-margin narrowly 

 bordered with greyish-brown in both wings. Hind-wing : on 

 hind-margin, between first median nervule and anal angle, 

 from one to four bright-orange lunules, the largest between 

 second and third median uervules, and with a round black 

 spot touching its outer edge. Cilia whitish-grey. UNDER- 

 SIDE. Whitish-grey ; ocelliform spots blackish or black, 

 white-ringed ; in both wings a white-edged, blackish streak 

 closing cell, a sinuate row of conspicuous ocelli beyond middle 

 (those in hind-wing smaller and fainter than those in fore-wing), 

 a submarginal row of ill-defined, fuscous, whitish-bordered 

 lunules, and a single small ocellus in discoidal cell. Hind- 

 wing : base dusted with blackish and bluish scales ; an ocellus 

 near base, just below subcostal nervure ; orange lunules 

 paler, black spot marked outwardly with some bluish-silvery 

 scales. 



? . Blue paler, less violaceous than in $ . Fore-wing : 

 costa, apex, and hind-margin very broadly bordered with 

 greyish-brown. Hind-wing : costal half of wing greyish- 

 brown, some small outwardly whitish-edged fuscous lunules 

 along hind-margin ; orange lunules paler and larger than in 

 $ , more or less confluent, black spot larger. UNDER-SIDE. 

 Quite like that of $ ; spots larger, more conspicuous. 



