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Japped by lobe of fore-wing ; above and beyond this patcli the costal 
black border runs pretty evenly from base to apex ; close to hind- 
margin, two rather large black spots between second median nervule 
j and submedian nervure ; a smaller black spot, marked outwardly with 
{ some greenish-silvery scales, on anal-angular lobe ; a thin but very 
distinct black linear edging all along hind-margin ; bases of cilia pure- 
i whiU, forming a very distinct line immediately beyond the black linear 
I edging of hind-margin, and conspicuously margining and tipping the 
tails (which are mesially rufous) on first median nervule and submedian 
nervure. Under side. — Very pale-grey ^ with a faint yellowish tinge; the 
folloiuing rufous-ochreous, very thinly fuscous-edged^ narrow transverse 
strice common to both wings, viz. : — one near base, not extending below 
median nervure in fore-wing, and angulated and interrupted near inner 
margin in hind- wing ; a short stria marking extremity of discoidal 
cell ; two (not parallel) beyond middle, becoming fuscous near inner 
margin of fore-wing, and biangulated towards that of hind-wing ; and 
a hind-marginal edging stria ; all these strife more or less faintly mar- 
gined with whitish, except the hind-marginal one, which in hind -wing 
is internally bounded by a well-defined white line. Fore-wing : inner- 
marginal area before middle smooth, silvery. Hind-iving : basal lobe 
very prominent, and a sub-vesicular swelling near base ; some fuscous 
irroration near hind-margin ; the middle hind-marginal black spot 
obsolete, but the upper one and that on anal-angular lobe well-marked, 
conspicuously edged with greenish-silvery, and inwardly bounded with 
golden-yellow scaling ; base of cilia conspicuously white, as on upper side. 
^ Much paler and duller ; the hluc in hoth wings becoming obscurely 
whitish in disc. Fore-wing : a dusky striola marking extremity of dis- 
coidal cell. Hind-iuing : a white line inwardly bounding linear black 
hind-marginal edging ; black spots near anal angle large ; above them, 
just before white line, two or three smaller more obscure similar spots. 
Under side. — As in 
In one $ from Delagoa Bay, the blue of the upper side is scarcely 
visible, the whole surface except for some very obscure bluish -grey 
scaling being pale fuscous-brownish. The under side is quite as usual. 
The last-named specimen together with a normal representative of each 
sex were kindly lent to me by Mr. H. Grose Smith, who received them from 
Delagoa Bay. From the same locality Mrs. Monteiro, in 1878, was so good 
as to send me a pair ; and a fine , now in the South-African Museum, was 
also one of her captures in the year 1883. 
Hewitson (op. cit.) notices that his example of this butterfly from the Zam- 
besi had the under side darker than usual and of a rufous-grey, but he does 
not mention the sex of this specimen. 
H. Cceculus ^ , in its deep-blue black-bordered upper-side colouring and 
glistening badge of the hind-wing, has quite the appearance of an lolaus, but 
the general structure and under-side pattern in both sexes justify Hewitson 's 
location of the species in the genus Hypolycrcna. On the under side, the 
well-marked stria before the middle is a good distinguishing character, neither 
H. Philippus nor H. Buxtoiii presenting it. 
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