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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Section C. — Under side brownisli-grey ; discal aad submarginal 
markings considerably darker than ground-colour, white-edged, very 
irregular, more or less confluent into broken fascige ; discal fascia of 
liind-wing so united with a submarginal brownish cloud as to mark off 
a subquadrate whitish space in anal-angular area. 
L. Lingeus (Cram.) [tailed], L. Palemon (Cram.) [tailed]. 
152. (34.) Lycaena Lingeus, (Cramer). 
^ Papilio Lingeus, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. pi. ccclxxix. ff. f, g (1782). 
^ Hesperia Ericus, Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 281, n. 81 (1793). 
$ $ Polijommatus Lingeus, Godt,, Enc. Meth., ix. p. 656, n. 130 (18 19). 
$ $ Lycoena Lingeus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 239, n. 140 (1866). 
Exii. al.^ {$) III liu. — I in. i Hn. ; ($) 11 lin. — I in. lin. 
J Lull violaceous-bluish, very glossy {in some specimens shot luith 
silvery-greenish) : a blackish hind-marginal line ; cilia tvhite, irregularly 
varied loith blackish, chiefly in fore-wing ; a slender, black, white- 
tipped tail on first median nervule of hind-wing. Under side. — Fale 
brownish-grey, with transverse vSliite-edged darker fascice ; a brown cloud 
in hind-iuing. Fore-wing : from costa, a single white stria near base, 
curving inward to origin of median nervure, — a short fascia (of which 
the outer white reaches below median nervure) crossing cell, — another 
similar fascia at extremity of cell ; beyond middle, a submacular fascia 
narrowing downward, from costa to first median nervule ; along hind- 
margin a whitish stripe interrupted with brown on discoidal and second 
and third median nervules, and containing a row of small, dark, lunular 
spots. Hind-wing : base brown ; an interrupted macular fascia before, 
and a very irregular one about, middle ; on disc, a brown cloudy — on 
the lower edge of which, between second and first medians, is a con- 
spicuous subqiuidrate white spot ; on either side of first median nervule 
a faintly yellow- ringed, black, bluish-silvery-dusted spot ; along hind- 
margin a very indistinct row of confluent whitish rings. 
$ Grey-brown, shot with violet-blue from base over disc. Fore-wing : 
short fascia closing cell loell-marked on this side, its white edges sufl'used ; 
two or three suffused whitish spots in broad hind-marginal brown. 
Hind-iuing : a dark streak closing cell ; rarely, a row of indistinct 
bluish-white marks beyond middle ; a nearly obsolete hind-marginal row 
of whitish lunules, that above, and sometimes that below, first median, 
with an outer adjacent blackish spot. Under side. — As in 
A $ taken near D' Urban, Natal, by Colonel Bowker, has much whitish 
suffusion on the disc of both wings, and an unbroken series of submarginal 
whitish spots (the middle one white) in the fore-wing. 
In this species the 9 is rather smaller than the $ ; and I possess one $ 
which is only 9 lin. across the expanded wings, but this example, which I 
captured near Cape Town, can only be regarded as abnormally dwarfed, like 
the still more diminutive $ s of Palemon which are not rarely met with. 
