CUPIDO. By Dr. C. Aurivillitts. 
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§. Hindwing tailless. 
1. Hindwing beneath without a basal dot in area 1 c and only in area 2 with 
a large black marginal spot. Eighteenth Group. 
2. Hindwing beneath with a basal dot in area 1 c and with three, almost equally 
sized, black marginal spots proximally bordered with orange-red (in 1 c, 
2 and 3). —• Chilades Moore. Nineteenth Group. 
§§. Hindwing at vein 2 tailed. Marginal spot 2 of hindwing towards the base not 
or only little bordered with yellow. Hindwing beneath without a basal dot 
in area 1 c. 
1. Under surface with a light or dark grey ground-colour and white-margined 
spots. Twenty-first Group. 
2. Under surface with a white ground-colour and therefore without a separate 
white border of the spots. Twenty-second Group. 
ff. The discal spots 1 c to 6 of the hindwing beneath black, punctiform and separate. — 
Zizera Moore + Zizeeria Chapm. + Zizina Chapm. + Zizula Chapm. -}- Actizera 
Chapm. Twenty-fourth Group. 
(3. Both wings beneath without a transverse streak or transverse spot at the end of the discal cell and 
with a white ground-colour. — Oboronia Karsch -f Athysanota Karsch + Termoniphas Karsch. 
Twenty-third Group. 
II. Forewing only with 10 veins, both veins 8 and 9 being absent. 
a. Hindwing beneath with large black marginal dots in the areas 2 to 5, but without any proximal yellow 
bordering of them. A very small species. — Oraidium B.-Baker. Thirteenth Group. 
[3. Hindwing beneath only in area 2 with a large, black marginal spot proximally accompanied by a very 
large orange-yellow spot. Larger species, 25 to 32 mm. — Neolycaena Karsch. (nec de Nic.) + Cupidopsis 
Karsch. 
First Group. 
This group corresponds with Karsch’s genus Phlyaria and is at once recognizable by the reduced marking 
of the under surface, but it cannot be distinguished from the other groups by morphological marks. Karsch 
states that vein 11 of the forewing forms an anastomosis with vein 12. This mark, however, is not reliable. In 
two specimens of the typical species, C. cyara Hew., lying before me vein 11 is quite separate in one, whilst 
in the other it is for a short distance fused with vein 12. 
By the marking beneath the species belonging hereto remind us very much of certain species of Pentila 
but according to Poulton they copy certain Pierids. The hindwing is tailed at vein 2. The forewing exhibits 
beneath on the white or yellowish ground unequally large black marginal spots and a larger costal-marginal 
spot, as well as (at least in the <§) a black basal spot in area 1 b. Hindwing beneath at least with two black 
marginal spots scaled blue or green in 1 b and 2 and a black spot at the end of vein 5. 
Above the forewing of the $ is dark violettish blue with a black marginal band, and the hindwing shows 
a white or whitish transverse band which is sometimes very broad and covers the whole surface except the 
base and a dark marginal band. Fringes of both wings between the veins spotted white. The eyes are moderately 
long and densely haired. 
The male scales (androconia) are rather broad and obtuse. They do not form any maculae nor velvety 
streaks, but are distributed across the upper surface of the forewing among the usual scales. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Wings beneath at the base of the costal margin distinctly hued yellowish. Hindwing beneath at the base 
not or hardly scaled black, before the centre with a black dot on vein 1 b. Both wings beneath without 
a transverse spot at the end of the discal cell. Forewing beneath at the costal margin only with one black 
spot situate about midway between the discal cell and the apex of the wing. 
a. Hindwing beneath in area 7 with two black dots, above violettish-grey with a darker marginal band 
and an indistinctly defined, whitish discal band broadly beginning at the proximal margin and gradually 
tapering off and ending at vein 4 or 5. C. stactalla. 
(3. Hindwing beneath without markings in area 7, above with a very broad, sharply defined, white discal 
band reaching to vein 6. C. cyara , 
