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173. (1.) Deudorix Antalus, (Hopffer). 
Dij)sas Antalus, Hopff., Monatsb. K. Akad. Wissens. Berlin, 1855, p. 641, 
n. 15; and ((^ ?) 
Sitlion Antalus, Peters' Reise Mossamb,, — Ins., p. 400, pi. xxv. ff. 7-9 [ $ ] 
(1862). 
$ $ Lycoena Anta,Tvim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3dser., i. p. 402 (1862). 
$ j Deudorix Anta, Hewits., 111. D. Lep., p. 25, pi. v., fif. 49-51 ; also 
lalmemis Antalus, p. 55 (1863 and 1865). 
$ $ Sitlion Batilidi, Trim., Rliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 232, n. 135 (1866). 
Ex'p. al, {$) I in. 0^—5 lin. ; ($) i in. 3 — 7 lin. 
$ Shining ceneous-hroivn, shot with violet from lases ; cilia greyish- 
ivhite. Fore-iuing : inner marginal tuft of hairs black. Hind-wing : 
a rather long, linear, black, white-tipped tail at extremity of third 
median nervule ; two black spots on hind-margin, respectively just 
above and below origin of tail ; lobe of anal angle marked with a 
greenish silvery-scaled black spot. Under side. — Fale-greyish ; in 
loth wings an incomplete, brownish-grey, whitish- edged ring, closing 
discoidal cell, a row of similar rings, confluent, forming a rather broad 
transverse band beyond middle, and a submarginal row of brownish- 
grey lunular markings, indistinctly white-edged inwardly and out- 
wardly. Hind-iving : near base, two or three whitish-ringed fuscous 
(sometimes dull-ferruginous) spots, forming a short transverse row; 
hind-marginal spot above tail marked inwardly by a yellowish lunule, 
that below tail ail bluish-silvery; spot on anal lobe inwardly scaled 
with bluish-silvery. 
$ Bluer than excepting near hind-margins, which are hroadly- 
hrown ; markings similar ; a dusky disco-cellular terminal streak in 
each wing. Under side. — Quite similar, the markings more distinct. 
From Boisduval's description {Faune Ent. de Madag., Sfc., p. 24) I was 
led — as stated in my book above cited — to consider his Lyccena, Batikeli, as 
identical with the South- African species which in 1862 I had described as 
Lycmna Anta, but which I subsequently discovered Hopffer had previously 
received from East Africa and named Dipsas Antalus. Boisduval's figure on 
pi. 3 [op. cit.) appeared to me as a rough and highly-coloured representation 
of Antalus, Hopff., of which I had seen several Malagasy specimens. Having 
lately (1886) seen the figures of Batikeli given by Grandidier in the Lepi- 
doptera volume of the Hist. Plirysique, Nat. et Polit. de Madag. (Paris, 1885) 
on pi. 29, I am, however, satisfied that it is a distinct species from Antalus. 
It is apparently a $ that is figured, and the upper side is depicted as con- 
siderably darker than in $ Antalus, especially in the hind- wing, the dull 
violaceous-blue of the fore-wing being better defined, but that of the hind- 
wing being reduced to a dull pale longitudinal ray from base between median 
and submedian nervures. On the under side, the markings generally are 
redder, less regular, and with their whitish edgings better developed ; in 
the fore-wing there is a linear red hind-marginal edging from apex to 
second median nervule, and in the hind-wing the three sub-basal white- 
ringed spots are larger and conspicuously red. 
There cannot be any doubt, on comparison, of the identity of Hopffer's 
East- African Antalus and my South- African Anta. Both sexes are very 
variable in size, and this is the case with individuals from the same locality. 
This is a near ally of the well-known D. Isocrates (Fab.), of India, but 
