LYC^NID^. 
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h. Eastern Coast. — Querimba." — Hopffer. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — Tati River {F. 0. Selous). 
B. North Tropical. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — " Atbara Kiver" [Soudan]. — Butler. 
132. (14.) Lycaena Hippocrates, (Fab.) 
$ Hesperia Hippocrates, Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 288, n. 105 (1793). 
Papilio Hippocrates, Don., Ins. Ind., pi. 45, f. 3 (1800)." 
Exp. al, ($) 9-1 1 lin. ; (?) io-ii|- lin. 
$ Dark-hrown ; apex of fore-wing tipped with luliite ; hind-wing 
with a rather long, linear, hlach^ luhite-tipped tail on first median nervule ; 
cilia brownish mixed with white, becoming pure white tipped with 
brown at apex of fore-wing and near anal angle of hind-wing. Fore- 
wing : apical white not broad, but conspicuous, below second radial 
nervule emitting along hind-margin, immediately before a dark bound- 
ing line, a very attenuated, interrupted, indistinct white line. Hind- 
%ving : costa edged with whitish ; between second and first median 
nervules a small hind-marginal black spot, bounded inwardly by a 
thin orange-yellow lunule ; an extreme hind-marginal black bound- 
ing line, preceded by traces of a whitish one, more apparent at 
anal angle. Under side. — Greyish-iuhite ; in each wing the disco- 
cellular terminal lumde and the two hind-marginal roivs of lunules, 
and in the hind-wing all the spots in the discal row except the 
first and last, very thin and faintly -marked , pale-grey^ with edgings 
scarcely whiter than the ground ; hind-marginal black- edging line 
clearly defined. Fore-vnng : no spots near base ; six spots of discal 
row very small, thin, black, almost imperceptibly white-edged, the row 
strongly curved outward superiorly. Hind-iving : discal row highly 
irregular, interrupted on second subcostal and second median nervules, 
and on submedian nervure, — the first spot (on costa) and the last (on 
inner margin about middle) black ; a sub-basal row of three small but 
very distinct black spots, viz., one close to costa, another in discoidal 
cell, and the third (smallest) on inner margin ; hind-marginal black 
spot and orange lunule well marked, the latter a little separated from 
the former, which sometimes bears a few bluish-silvery scales ; at anal 
angle a short linear black mark just before hind-marginal black line. 
$ Brown, paler ; in each wing a large whitish-grey space, more or 
less shot with pale hlue, from hase over inner -marginal and lower discal 
area; cilia whiter throughout, except near apex of fore-wing, and in 
hind-wing with thin nervular fuscous interruptions. Fore-iving : pale 
space covers lower half of cell, and half (or sometimes two-thirds) of 
the median nervules ; a dusky disco-cellular terminal lunule, indis- 
tinctly marked. Hind-wing : pale space occupies all the wing up to 
subcostal nervure and its second nervule ; disco-cellular lunule and 
lower par. of discal row of spots more or less distinctly represented ; 
