58 RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALIS. 



of hind- wing more or less irr orated with the same colour / 

 a very thin hind- marginal fuscous edging. Fore -wing : 

 fulvous-yellow radiating outwardly (but rays not reaching 

 hind-margin), and sometimes marked by a very faint fuscous 

 line at end of discoidal cell. Hind-wing : on hind-margin, 

 near anal angle, two or three fulvous lunules, of which the 

 middle one is marked with a large black or violaceous-black 

 spot, externally more or less white-edged. UNDER-SIDE. 

 Whitish-grey : in each wing t a pale-fuscous, white-edged, 

 disco-cellular line or lunule, a row of spots (quite as in 

 MessapuS) Godt.) of the same colours beyond cell, and on 

 hind-margin a row of faintly white-edged, pale-fuscous 

 lunules with adjacent spots of the same colour. Fore-wing : 

 six spots in row beyond cell. Hind-wing ; first spot in row 

 beyond cell costal, black ; row abruptly interrupted on second 

 subcostal and third median nervules, so that the two first 

 spots are distant from the rest, last spot, also remote from 

 rest, minute, lunular, about middle of inner-margin ; two 

 black, white-edged spots at base, one on costa, the other in 

 cell ; sometimes a third, very minute spot on edge of inner- 

 margin ; two lunules in hind-marginal row fulvous, the inner 

 one with an adjacent large violaceous-black spot. 



? . Fuscous. Hind-wing : near anal angle two or three 

 large, confluent, fulvons spots, the inner marked with a black, 

 the outer with a fuscous spot, both outwardly white-edged ; 

 a white line at anal angle. UNDER-SIDE. Quite like that 

 of *. 



Translated from Wallengren's description. I have never seen this 

 singularly-coloured species. 



Kaffraria (Wahlberg)." Wallgr. 



Genus CHRYSOPHANUS. 



Chrysophanus, Hubn., Westw., &c. 

 Polyommatus, Boisd. 

 Lycaena, Steph. 



IMAGO. General characters of Lyccena. Eyes smaller, 

 less prominent ; antennae rather shorter and stouter. Thorax 

 abdomen, and legs as in more robust species of Lyccena. 

 Hind-wings not tailed on third median nervule (where, 

 however, there is sometimes a short dentation), but usually 

 with a more or less marked projection at anal angle. 



There is little besides colour to distinguish the insects of 

 this Genus from Lyccena^ except the anal-angular prominence 



