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Charaxes kirkii. 



Charaxes kirkii, Butler, Etit. Month. Mag. xviii, p. 105 (1881). 

 Charaxes varanes. 



Palla varanes (Cram.), Kirby, op. cit. p. 274 (187 1). 



Family Lyc^nid^. 

 Axiocerces perion. 



Axiocerces perion (Cram.), Kirby, op. cit. p. 338 (187 1). 

 Lycaena jobates. 



Cupido jobates (Hopff.), Kirby, op. cit. p. 349 (187 i). 

 Lycsena lingeus. 



Cupido lingeus (Cram.), Kirby, op. cit. p. 350 (1871). 

 Lycsena trochilus. 



Cupido trochilus (Frey.), Kirby, op. cit. p. 357 (187 1). 

 Lycaena palemon. 



Plebeius palemon (Cram.), Kirby, op. cit. Suppl. p. 765 (1871). 

 Lycaena gaika. 



Cupido gaika (Trimen), Kirby, op. cit. p. 362 (187 1). 

 Lycaena knysna. 



Lycsena knysna, Trimen, Trajis. Ejit. Soc. sen 3, vol. i. p. 282 (1862). 

 Lycaena stellata. 



Lycaena stellata, Trimen, t.c. vol. ii. p. 49 (1887). 

 Lycaena pulchra. 



Plebeius pulchra (Murr.), Kirby, op. cit. Suppl. p. 772 (1877). 

 Lycaena jesous. 



Cupido jesous (Gue'r.), Kirby, op. cit. p. 351 (1871). 

 Lycaena beeticus. 



Cupido basticus (Linn.), Kirby, op. cit. p. 354 (1871). 

 Lycaena patricia. 



Lycaena patricia, Trimen, t.c. vol. ii. p. 20 (1887). 

 Catachrysops cuprescens, sp. n. (Figs. 3, 30: on plate, p. 66.) 



Allied to C. osiris, Hopff., and wings rather more pointed ; 

 the blue basal area hardly visible, both wings being suffused with 

 a coppery lustre. 



Costa and hind margins darker ; two orange-yellow spots with 

 black centres, near the anal angle on the hind-wing, between the 

 first and second median nervule and the submedian nervure. 



Under side : similar to that of C. osiris, rather more heavily 

 marked, the basal area of the hind-wing darker, with an extra black 

 spot, close to the base, on the inner margin. 



The white discal band wider and not so hastate in shape ; the 

 two orange-yellow spots having the black centres outlined with a 

 metallic blue instead of green. 

 Expanse, i.i inch. 

 Hab. Lorogi Mountains (1894). 



