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o. The discal spot 7 of the hindwing beneath is situate about midway between the apex of 
the discal cell and the discal spot 6 and is entirely separated from both. C. calice. 
oo. The discal spot 7 of the hindwing beneath is removed more towards the margin so that it 
touches the marginal spot 6 or is situate almost right before it. 
1. The white discal area on the forewing above is large, it reaches to the posterior margin, 
where it is about 5 mm broad. The white transverse band of the hindwing above reaches 
to the costal margin. G. ertli. 
2. The white discal spot on the forewing above is much smaller, not reaching to the posterior 
margin, being in area 1 b only 2 to 2% mm broad and at the posterior angle of the discal 
cell deeply indented or almost interrupted by the black colour. 
a. Wings beneath with a white ground-colour and black markings. C. melas. 
b. Wings beneath with a light yellowish-grey or creamy ground-colour and brownish 
markings. C. griquus. 
**. The discal spot 7 of the hindwing is large and is situate nearer to the base, thus forming a continua¬ 
tion of the transverse streak at the end of the discal cell. The discal spots lc to 5 of the hindwing 
are entirely absent or only represented by a dot in 2. C. gregorii. 
(3. Hind wing on both surfaces or at least beneath without any transverse streak at the end of the discal 
cell, rarely beneath with an indistinct yellowish transverse streak. Wings above with a broad, joint, 
white transverse band touching both the posterior margin of the forewing and the costal margin of 
the hindwing. 
*. Wings beneath with distinct black discal and submarginal spots in all or nearly all the areas. 
Discal spot 5 of the hindwing generally present. 
o. Marginal band of the forewing above irregular with 1 to 4 distinctly prominent white spots. 
Submarginal line of the forewing beneath entirely coherent, not interrupted by the light 
veins. C. cretosus. 
oo. Marginal band of the forewing above broader and less irregular, often without any spots. 
Submarginal line of the forewing beneath broken up into separate spots by the light veins. 
C. car ana. 
**. Discal and submarginal spots beneath indistinct, grey or pale yellowish ; only the basal spots and 
the spots of area 1 b on the hindwing and of the areas 6 to 8 on the forewing as well as the marginal 
spots on the hindwing are usually black or blackish. C. margaritacens. 
C. thespis L. (73 a). $. Wings above uni-coloured blue with a fine black marginal line and white, thespis. 
at the ends of the veins distinctly black-spotted fringes; the veins particularly towards the margin finely blackish. 
The under surface is distinguished by all the dark markings being thick and large and forming angular, united 
spots; the white ground-colour therefore only appears as angular spots and only at the margin it forms an almost 
coherent row of large spots in the centre of which the dark marginal spots are absent or small and indistinct, 
the light spots are in the basal part lined somewhat bluish-grey, then in the centre of a purer white; of the larger 
spots 2 are situate in the discal cell, one triangular each at the base of the areas 2 and 3, two quadrangular spots 
in area 4, and one each in 5 and 6. — $. Wings above blackish-brown, in the basal half with a bluish 
reflection, in the marginal part with some white spots. Beneath like in the but with larger and more sharply 
defined purely white spots. Cape Colony (and Natal?). 
C. bowkeri Trim. (73 b) is similar to the preceding species, but it differs by the smaller black spots bowkeri. 
beneath and by the differences mentioned in the review; it is also somewhat larger than thespis. Natal. 
C. sybaris Hpff. (73 a). Wings above viotettish-blue with a black transverse spot at the end of the sybaris. 
discal cell of the forewing, and with a dark marginal band of 1 to 1 y 2 mm width, which is often broken up 
into spots on the hindwing; fringes at the base broad black, then grey or whitish; a fine white marginal line 
of the hindwing at least in 1 b to 4. Both wings beneath of a pure white, with separate, rounded, black discal, 
submarginal and marginal spots; only on the forewing the discal spots are sometimes contiguous in pairs (1 and 2, 
3 and 4); the marginal spots 1 b to 3 (to 4) of the hindwing are decorated with green scales. The wings of the 
$ are above blackish-brown with white spots in the centre of the forewing and behind the centre of the hindwing; 
the base of both wings feebly lined bluish. Cape Colony and the whole of East Africa as far as Somali Land and 
Abyssinia. — linearis var. nov. <$<$ from Damara and Transvaal deviate by the dark marginal band above being linearis. 
entirely absent. The blue colour is thus only separated from the margin by a very fine black marginal line; 
the marginal line is apparently thick, passing over into the black basal part of the fringes with a distinct boundary. 
This is probably the race occurring in Angola and the Ovambo Land. 
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