LYC^NID^. 
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119. (1.) Lycsena Osiris, HopfFer. 
^ Lyccena Osiris, Hopff., " Monatsb. K. Preiiss. Akad. Wissensch., 1855, 
p. 642, n. 21 ; " and Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 409, pi. xxvi. 
ff. II, 12 (1862). 
Exp. al, {$) I in. 1-3 lin. ; (?) i in. lin. 
J FaU shining p inkish-violaceous with a slight cupreous gloss ; a 
narrow greyish f uscous hind-marginal edging {suhnacular in hind-wing) ; 
cilia shining pale-greyish, near anal angle of hind-iuing becoming ivhite. 
Fore-wing: a faint, narrow, terminal, disco-cellular greyisli-fuscous 
lunule. Hind-wing : a linear, black, white-tipped tail at extremity of 
first median nervule ; above and below the nervule respectively two 
black bind-marginal spots (of wbicli the upper is the larger), bounded 
internally by orange-yellow lunules (of which the upper is a good deal 
broader), and externally by a very fine white line. Under side. — Fale 
whitish-grey, with a very faint tinge of hroivnish ; in each iving a ter- 
minal disco-cellular lunule, and a discal submacular transverse stria, 
both darker than the ground-colour, and white edged on each side, — 
two submarginal rows of white lunules (the space between them in 
fore-wing also darker than the ground-colour), and a hind-marginal 
white line immediately followed by a brown terminal line. Fore-wing: 
markings beyond middle extending from fourth subcostal nervule to 
submedian nervure ; discal row almost regular, becoming more macular 
and bent slightly inwards inferiorly. Hind-wing : a sub-basal row 
of three small, black, rounded, rather indistinctly white-ringed spots ; 
discal row more irregular than in fore-wing, the seventh spot (between 
first median nervule and submedian nervure) lunular, farther from base 
than the rest ; the first spot (immediately below costal nervure) nearer 
base than the rest, black and rounded like the sub-basal ones ; inner 
submarginal row of lunules sagittiform, rather suffused, outer row sub- 
sagittiform and forming with hind-marginal line a series of imperfect 
annulets ; black hind-marginal spots near anal angle rather smaller 
than on upper side, incompletely ringed with greenish-silvery, their 
orange-yellow lunules rather larger. 
$ Broivnish-grey, rather widely suffused from bases with bright pale- 
bluish ; discs dingy-ivhitish ; in hind-wing the rovjs of white lumdes and 
the white and blackish hind-marginal lines more distinctly marked than 
on the under side. Fore-wing : a distinct fuscous terminal lunule ; 
bluish suffusion extends over lower part of discoidal cell along inner 
marginal area and over disc to beyond middle ; in most specimens more 
or less distinct representation of lower two-thirds of two suffused sub- 
marginal rows of white lunules resembling those of hind-wing. Hind- 
tving : bluish suffusion usually fills discoidal cell, but is otherwise more 
restricted than in fore- wing ; upper of the two hind-marginal black spots 
and its adjacent orange-yellow lunule much larger than in Under 
SIDE. — As in ^, but the discal submacular row less regular and more 
