DEUDOEIX. II 



When I figured the female of this species I believed it to be a male contrary to the evidence 

 of form, from the appearance of its feet, which I had not, however, examined sufficiently. 



Iolaus Cippus. Plate IV. 6 figs. 39, 40. 



Hesperia Cippus, Fabr. Ent. Sijst. v. Sugpl. p. 429. 

 Iolaus Cippus, Lyccenidce, p. 46. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin, the apex, 

 and outer margin black : the inner margin (under which there is a large tuft of dark brown 

 hair) slightly projecting. Posterior wing with one tail : the apex dark brown. 



Underside grey-white, highly polished. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by an 

 indistinct brown linear band, broken into spots on the posterior wing : the spot near the base 

 of the tail and the lobe black, crowned with orange. 



Exp. lyL inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Simla. 



29. Iolaus marmoreus. 



Aphnanis marmoreus, Butler, Ent. Mon. Mag. ii. p. 169. 



In the Collection of the British Museum, from the White Nile. 

 This is, I think, only a variety of I. Bowkeri of Trimen. 



Genus DEUDOMX. 



(Continued from p. 26.) 



30. Deudorix Diopites, Hewitson. Plate V. figs. <J 54, ? 52, 53. 



Upperside. Male. — Lilac-blue. Anterior wing with the costal and outer margins broadly 

 dark brown. Posterior wing with one tail : the costal and outer margins brown : the lobe 

 black irrorated with white. 



Underside rufous. Both wings with two lines at the end of the cell : both crossed 

 beyond the middle by a linear band of rufous-brown bordered outwardly with white : both 

 with a submarginal rufous band. Posterior wing with the spot between the tails and the lobe 

 black, the space between them black irrorated with white ; a line of white below them. 



Female dark brown, tinted with lilac-blue. The lobe of the posterior wing 

 black crowned with orange : the underside as in the male, except that there is a white line 

 above the lobe and that the space between the submarginal band and the margin is orange. 



Exp. 6 H, 2 1 t 6 tj inch. 



In the Collections of George Semper and W. C. Hewitson, from the Philippines. 



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