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outer side with glittering chalybeous. Under side cinereous 

 fawn-colour ; several glittering chalybeous spots ; a narrow 

 submarginal band of the same hue ; some of the spots 

 bordered on the outer side with deep black or accompanied 

 with deep black spots ; some black points between the sub- 

 marginal band and the border; fringe pale cinereous, black 

 at the base. Hor Tamanib. 



42. Lampides Bcsiica, Linn. Cairo, Akeek Island, Har- 

 keko, Mount Sinai. 



43. Lampides Trochilus, Frivaldszky, H.-Schaeff. Pap. f. 

 224—226. Hor Tamanib, Dahleck Island. 



44. Lampides Theophrastus, Fabr. Cairo, Hor Tamanib, 

 Harkeko, Tajora. 



45. Lampides Uranicola, n. Expands 1 in. 31in. Male. 

 — Brilliant blue ; fringe white, black at the base. Under 

 side cinereous-white ; a transverse, black, white-bordered 

 streak in the disk ; an exterior band of black white-bordered 

 spots; a more exterior band of brown lunules, and a submar- 

 ginal band of transversely elongated brown spots. Hind wing : 

 a band of black white-bordered streaks between the streak in 

 the disk and the base; exterior band of black spots much 

 more curved than in the fore wing; lunules more slender and 

 more curved; submarginal spots larger, the fifth from the tip 

 mostly covered by a deep black spot, which includes some 

 brilliant blue scales, and is connected on its inner side with 

 a gilded luteous spot. Head, pectus, legs, and under side of 

 abdomen white. Antennae black, with white rings ; tips 

 orange. Mount Sinai. VVady Genneh. 



46. Lampides Ferrana, n. Expands 1 in. 4j lin. Fe- 

 male. — ^Eneous-brown. Wings wiih a blue tinge at the 

 base ; a postmedial white band composed of lanceolate 

 streaks in the areolets. Hind wing : hind margin with dark 

 brown spots which include a few chalybeous scales, the spot 

 nearest the posterior angle broadly bordered with ochraceous 

 on its inner side. Under side — A broad white band along 

 the hind margin, including a row of black spots, an exterior 

 zigzag brown band, and a marginal row of brown spots. 

 Fore wing: a transverse black discoidal streak. Hind wing: 

 an antemcdial transverse line of three black white-bordered 

 spots^, discoidal streak brown, much more slender than that 

 of the fore wing; exterior line of black spots more curved; 



