52 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



outer margins, and the fringe brown. Posterior wing with the caudal black spot partly 

 bordered with orange : the apical spot with blue : the outer margin black, the fringe white. 



Female like the male, except that it is rufous-brown above, and that the 

 posterior wing has the outer half darker brown crossed by two short bands of white. 



Exp. d l T %, $ 1^ inch. 



In the Collection of the British Museum, from Ashanti and Sierra Leone. 



12. Hypolycaena Faunus. 



Papilio Faunus, Drury, ii. pi. 1. f. 4, 5. Cramer, pi. 39. f. b, c, 96 tf F, e. Godart, Enc. Met. p. 618. 

 Hesperia Hesiodus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 260. 

 Papilio Hesiodus, Palisot de Beauvais, pi. 7. f. 5, 6, 7. 

 Iolaus Faunus, West-wood in Gen. Biurn. Bep. p. 481. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Old Calabar. 



This is singularly different in form from the neighbouring species. I have not quoted 

 the description of H. Faunus in the ' Mantissa Insectomm ' of Fabricius, because he says 

 " subtus strigis duabus fulvis." 



13. Hypolycaena Eleala, Hewitson. Plate XXIII. figs. 6 25, 27, $ 26. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant ultramarine blue, the margins black, broadest at the apex 

 of the anterior wing and costal margin of the posterior wing. 



Underside white. Both wings crossed at the middle by a continuous common rufous 

 band : both with an indistinct submarginal band of brown. Anterior wing with the apex and 

 outer margin grey-brown. Posterior wing with a submarginal band of brown spots : the caudal 

 and apical spots black, crowned with orange. 



Female rufous-brown. Posterior wing with a broad anal band of white 

 divided by dark brown nervules : the black spot at the angle crowned with orange. Underside 

 like the male. 



Exp. 1 Jj inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Old Calabar. 



14. Hypolycaena Caeculus. 



Iolaus Creculus, Hopffer in Peters's Reisenarh Mossambique, pi. 25. f. 12, 13, 14, p. 402. 



Upperside. Male. — Ultramarine blue. Anterior wing with the apex and outer margin 

 broadly dark brown. Posterior wing with the costal margin brown : two black spots at the 

 base of the tails, the anal spot orange and white. 



Underside grey-white. Both wings crossed by four rufous bands ; the first near the base 



