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182. (5.) HypolycsBna Lara, (Linnaeus). 
Papilio Lara, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr. Keg., p. 320, n. 138 (1764); and 
Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 791, n. 328 (1767).^ 
$ Pajpilio loJaus, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. pi. cclxx. ff. f, g (1782). 
^ Papilio Gorgias, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot., pi. xxxiii. ff. 5, 5D 
(1791)- 
^ $ Polyommatus Lara, Godt., Enc. Metli., ix. p. 675, n. 179 (1819). 
Thecla lolaus and Theda Lara, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Yet.-Akad. Handl., 
1857 ; Lep. Ehop. CafFr., pp. 34, 35. 
$ 9 Chrysophanus Lara, Trim., Phop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 260, n. 116 
(1866). 
HypolycGena Lara, Hewits., 111. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 13 (1869). 
Exp. al, ($) 10 lin. — i in. 2 J lin. ; ($) i in. 1-6 lin. 
Glistening pale-fermginous^ darker on margins, with a hrilliant- 
pearly hasal lustre. Fore-wing : at posterior angle, a good- sized white- 
ringed black spot, often surmounted by one or two indistinct wliite 
rings, of which the lower is sometimes distinct and filled with black. 
Hind-wing : at anal angle two spots like those of fore- wing, but smaller ; 
above them, along hind-margin, a series of whitish rings, becoming 
obsolete towards costa ; beyond middle, occasionally an indistinct 
transverse row of whitish lunules. Cilia white, interrupted with fus- 
cous at extremities of nervules. Under side. — Whitish- grey. Fore- 
wing : tinged with brownish, except on costa and hind-margin ; pos- 
terior-angular spots distinct, whitish rings above suffused, all inte- 
riorly edged by a brownish line ; a pale-edged disco-cellular terminal 
streak ; beyond middle, a macular, brownish, transverse, outwardly 
white -edged streak, sharply curved at costa. Hind-wing : disco- 
cellular streak and streak about middle (much sinuated) usually in- 
distinct ; no spots at anal angle or on hind-margin ; an irregular, 
submarginal, suffused brownish fascia, broadest on discoidal nervule ; 
near base two or three indistinct spots. 
The male has the fore- wing at apex and the hind-wing at anal 
angle more acuminate than in the female, but the difference is not 
striking in the typical smaller form prevailing about Cape Town and 
the neighbouring districts, whereas in some of the larger examples 
from Kaffraria, Natal, and the Transvaal, it is very pronounced — ^ 
almost as much as in Stoll's figure above quoted. This acute-winged 
larger ^ also has the basal lustre usually more developed and slightly 
bluer in tint, and as a rule shows with tolerable distinctness the 
whitish lunules across the disc of the hind-wjng. The $ accompanying 
this ^ (the paired sexes taken near Potchefstroom on 28th February 
1872 were sent me by Mr. W. Morant) is generally larger and less 
rufous in tint than the South- Western examples,- — in two individuals 
^ As I have pointed out {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.^ 1868, p. 287), the Lara of Donovan 
[Nat. Repos., ii. pi. 71, 1824) has nothing to do with Linne's species j it is a small Satyride, 
and placed by Westwood and Butler in the genus Ypthima, near the Oriental Y. Lisandro, 
(Cram.) 
