RHOPALOCERA AFRICJE AUSTRALIS. 



Cape Town. Stellenbosch. Graham's Town (H. I. 

 Atherstone). Coll. Tri. 



"Graham's Town to King William's Town." D'Urban, 

 in litt. 



Butterworth and Kei and Bashee Rivers, Kaffraria (J. H. 

 Bowker). Coll. S. A. Mus. 



South Africa. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



161. Chrysophanus Lara. 



Papilio Lara, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 791, n. 238. 



Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 320, n. 138. 



Hesperia Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 315, n. 191. 

 Papilio lolaus, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 270, f. F, G. 



Gorgias, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Ex., pi. 33, f. 



[5, 5d. 



Polyommatus Lara, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 675, n. 179. 

 Zeritis (?) Lara, E. Doubl., List Lep. Brit. Mus., II, 



[p. 57. 



Thecla lolaus, and Thecla Lara, Wallgr., Lep. RJiop. 



[Caffr., pp. 34, 35. 

 Exp. 8| lin. 1 in. 3 lin. 



Glistening pale-ferruginous, darker on margins, with a 

 brilliant-pearly basal lustre. Fore-wing: at anal angle, a 

 good-sized white-ringed black spot, often surmounted by one 

 or two indistinct white rings, of which the lower is sometimes 

 distinct and filled with black. Hind-wing : at anal angle 

 two spots like those of fore-wing, but smaller ; above them, 

 along hind-margin, a series of whitish rings, becoming obsolete 

 towards costa ; beyond middle, occasionally an indistinct 

 transverse row of whitish lunules. Cilia white, spotted with 

 fuscous. UNDER-SIDE. Whitish-grey. Fore-wing : tinged 

 with brownish, except on costa and hind-margin ; anal- 

 angular spots distinct, whitish rings above suffused, all 

 interiorly edged by a brownish line; a pale-edged disco-cellular 

 streak ; beyond middle, a macular, brownish, transverse, 

 outwardly white -edged streak, sharply curved at costa. 

 Hind-wing : disco-cellular streak and streak about middle 

 (much sinuated) usually indistinct ; no spots at anal angle or 

 on hind-margin ; an irregular, submarginal, suffused brownish 

 fascia, broadest on discoidal nervule ; near base two or three 

 indistinct spots. 



This species is extremely variable in outline of wings, those of the 

 being much pointed and elongated (the fore-wing at apex, the hind-wing at 

 anal angle) in specimens from Kaffraria, which are also remarkable for the 



