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**. The marginal spot 2 of the hindwing beneath is towards the base bordered with yellowish or red. 
— $. Wings above only with a fine black marginal line. 
§. The marginal spot 2 of the hindwing beneath is proximally narrowly bordered with yellowish 
or orange-yellow. — $. Forewing above in the centre lighter whitish. 
1. Under surface white or yellowish-white with distinctly prominent black markings. 
C. rrtirza. 
2. Under surface more greyish-white or brownish-grey. Discal spots 2 to 6 of the forewing and 
1 c to 6 of the hindwing brown. C. jesous. 
§§. Marginal spot 2 of the hindwing beneath proximally bordered with hemochrome. 
C. rubropuncta. 
B. Forewing beneath without a dark dot in the discal cell. The discal dot 9 of the forewing is black and 
situate much nearer at the base than the discal spot 6; in area 10 there is also a discal dot. The marginal 
spots 1 c and 2 of the hindwing beneath deep black without blue scales. Fringes of both wings long, uni¬ 
coloured white. C. ubaldus. 
C. natalensis Trim. (73 c). $. Wings above violettish-blue with a fine black marginal line and feebly natalensis. 
diaphanous markings of the under surface; a black dot at the anal angle of the hindwing. Wings beneath white 
with black or blackish-brown markings; forewing at the costal margin as far as beyond the centre with broad longi¬ 
tudinal stripes, with a dot in the discal cell, a transverse streak at the cell-end, and seven angular discal spots, 
of which that in 1 b is narrow and strigiform, that in 2 situate more towards the base, and those of the areas 
3 to 6 and 9 are united into an almost straight transverse band being almost vertical towards the costal margin; 
the submarginal line is narrow and coherent, and the marginal spots are separate. Hindwing with a black 
transverse streak at the base, black subbasal spots in la, lb, 1 c, 7 and in the discal cell, a fine transverse 
streak at the cell-end and separate rounded discal spots, of which that in area 3 is large and usually situate 
near the submarginal line (the discal spots 4 and 5 being sometimes entirely absent); submarginal line as in the 
forewing, marginal spots larger and in the areas 1 c and 2 scaled blue. Frons with two rows of black bristles 
or almost entirely black with fine white lateral margins. — In the $ the wings above are in the centre white 
or whitish with broad dark margins and distinctly prominent black discal spots; only at the base faintly 
hued bluish; under surface as in the $. It occurs from Natal to Abyssinia, Ruanda and French Congo. 
C. moriqua Wallengr. (73 d) is somewhat smaller than natalensis and chiefly only differs by the discal moriqua. 
spots 3 to 5 of the hindwing being contiguous and situate in a transverse line about in the centre between 
the discal cell and the margin, and by the discal spot 2 being smaller than 3. In the <$ the dark margin 
of the upper surface is broader, and in the $ the wings are above in the centre lighter but without any other 
black spots but the transverse spot at the cell-end. Angola to Natal and Delagoa Bay, also on Lake Tchad. 
C. jesous Guer. (73 d, as ubaldus U.) has already been described and figured in Vol. I (p. 294, table jesous. 
77 k). It occurs in the whole of East and South Africa as far as the mouth of the Congo River and not rarely 
also in South Arabia. — soalalicus Karsch only differs by the basal dots of the discal cell and of area 7 soalalicus, 
on the hinclwing beneath being quite separate and not combined into a transverse line. Madagascar. 
C. mirza Plotz (73 d) is very closely allied to jesous, but the exhibits above a more purely blue mirza. 
ground-colour and beneath black markings on a white or yellowish ground. Sierra Leone to Nyassa Land, 
German and British East Africa; it is reported to have been found also in Natal and near Delagoa. 
C. rubropuncta Lathy. <$. Both wings above uni-coloured dull violettish-blue with a fine black marginal rubropunc- 
line being somewhat expanded at the apex of the forewing, and black fringes. The under surface exhibits a ia 
whitish-grey ground-colour and is particularly distinguished by the basal spot in area 7 of the hindwing being 
separate and rounded and its marginal spot in area 2 being proximally bordered by a hemochrome spot; the 
longitudinal streak at the costal margin of the forewing is rather indistinct. In the $ the wings are above brownish- 
grey, only at the base and in the centre covered with a light bluish colour, under surface like in the <$. Mada¬ 
gascar. 
C. ubaldus Cr. (= zena Moore ; ethoda Walk. ; itea Walk. ; thebana Stand.) (73 d) likes dry districts ubaldus. 
grown with Acacia bushes, and also occurs in Southern Asia and at the frontier of the palearctic region. It 
has therefore been described and figured in Vol. I (p. 294) and Vol. IX (p. 294, table 153 e). The the wings 
of which are above light bluish-violet, is distinguished by a velvet-like darker transverse band being broad 
on the forewing, triangular on the hindwing, and being formed of G scales. In the $ (73 d) the wings are above 
light yellowish-brown, with a faint violet reflection. HindAving in both sexes above with distinct black marginal 
dots in 1 c and 2. The larva lives on species of Acacia. Cape Colony to Somali Land and Nubia, Arabia. 
