J 2 DIUENAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



31. Deudorix Diodes, Heivitson. Plate V. s figs. 55, 56. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing dark brown with a large triangular orange spot from 

 the middle of the wing to the inner margin. Posterior wing with one tail : orange tinted with 

 carmine, the base broadly brown : the outer margin black, narrow. 



Underside grey, the orange of the upperside seen through. Anterior wing with a spot 

 at the end of the cell and a broad band beyond the middle bordered on both sides with white. 

 Posterior wing with numerous short rufous bands : the lobe and the spot near the tail black, 

 crowned with orange. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



In the Collection of Herbert Druce, from Natal. 



Dipsas Epirus of Felder, Novara Expedition, p. 241, has the priority of my Deudorix despcena, 

 Lycsenidae, Plate VI. figs. 1, 2, 3. This is evidently a very variable species. A specimen in 

 my own collection agrees with Felder's description, and differs from my figure in having the 

 underside white with two submarginal brown bands on the posterior wing. An example in the 

 collection of Dr. Boisduval has the band of the anterior wing longer and the oblique central 

 band of the posterior wing quite straight and of equal breadth until it reaches the anal angle. 



Genus HYPOLYC^INA. 



{Continued from p. 53.) 



16. Hypolycaena Rabe. Plate V. $ figs. 30, 31. 



Lycsena Rabe, Boisduval, Faunc Entom. Madag. p. 25 ; Westwood in Doubleday fy Heivitson' s Gen. 

 Diurn. Lepid. p. 496. 



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



17. Hypolycaena hirundo. 



Thecla hirundo, Wallengren, Lep. Caff. p. 35. 



Amblypodia hirundo, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Australis, pi. 4. fig. 11, p. 230. 



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



I much doubt that this is specifically distinct from H. Rabe. It is much smaller and more 

 suffused with brown on the upperside. The bands and spots are alike on both, and only 

 appear different on this species from being crowded into a smaller space. 



