CUPIDO. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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The spots beneath are not or hardly darker than the ground-colour and therefore only recognizable 
by the fine whitish streaks by which they are bordered on both sides. A very characteristic mark is also that 
each spot is parted in two by a fine (often indistinct) light median line. The basal spots of the hindwings are 
usually only represented by a short streak at the base of vein 8, whereas the subbasal spots form a coherent 
transverse band. The discal spots are large and broadly contiguous; the spots 4 and 5 are in both wings some¬ 
what nearer to the margin than the others, and the spots 6 and 7 of the hindwing vertical towards the costal 
margin. The under surface only shows two (or three) black dots, the marginal spots in the areas 1 c and 2 (and 3) 
of the hindwing, which are surrounded by whitish, sometimes by metallic margins. Above these dots are generally 
entirely absent. Delicately built species with thin wings. 
Review of the Species. 
A. The spots beneath not darker than the ground-colour. Marginal spots 1 c and 2 of the hindwing beneath 
not bordered with yellow towards the base. 
a. Wings above uni-coloured black without markings and without a blue reflection. C. aethiops. 
(b Wings in the $ above uni-coloured dark violettish-blue, in the $ greyish-brown with a blue basal area 
of the forewing. C. .sichela. 
B. The spots beneath distinctly darker than the ground-colour. The black marginal spots of the areas 1 c 
to 3 on the hindwing beneath proximally bordered with yellow. C. mandersi. 
C. aethiops Mab. (73 d) deviates from all the other Ethiopian species of Cwpido by the uni-coloured aethiops. 
black upper surface and the white-striatecl imder surface. The $ which is not before me, according to Holland, 
does not differ from the <$. Gabun to Congo (and Abyssinia?). 
C. sichela Wallengr. (73 d) is easily recognizable by the above-mentioned marks. From Sierra Leone sichela. 
to Cape Colony and East Africa; also in Madagascar. 
C. mandersi Ham. Druce is only known to me by the description and by the figure supplied by Manders. mandersi. 
As Druce does not state whether vein 11 of the forewing is separate or not, the position of this species is not 
quite certain. The spots beneath are evidently darker and more distinct than in the preceding species, but 
apparently arranged in the same way. About the habits and stages Manders gives the following statement: 
Their way of flying is quite different from that of the other Lycaenids occurring in Mauritius; it flies high above 
the ground and often engages in furious fights with others of its species. — The eggs are flat, light green, and 
are deposited on the under surface of young leaves of Caesalpinia bonducella. The larva is at first greenish- 
white with white hairing, in its clemi-adult stage light apple-green with a yellow line on both sides of the dorsum 
and a similar line at the spiracles. When being fully developed it attains a length of 10 mm and changes in the 
colour from a light green to brownish-green with a reddish hue, and also shows reddish longitudinal lines. 
Head black. Pupa light reddish-grey with purple-red markings. Mauritius. 
Tenth Group. 
(Lampides- Group.) \ 
This group was formerly denoted by Scudder (1878) and Moore (1881) as Polyommatus. Now this 
name is much more correctly (comp, the signification of Polyommatus, many-eyed) used for C. icarus and allied 
forms. Hubner’s name Lampides is now used for this group. 
The marking beneath at first sight makes a strange and different impression, but it is in fact rather 
normal, if one notices that all the discal spots and also most of the basal spots are divided into two halves by 
a thick white transverse streak. One discal spot consequently consists of four transverse streaks, a white 
one in the centre, on each side a brown streak and a thick white border-line. The distal border-lines of the 
discal spots form in the hindwing a distinctly prominent, almost straight, white transverse band from the proxi¬ 
mal margin to the costal margin. A spot in the discal cell of the forewing. But one African species. 
C. boeticus L. (Vol. I, p. 290, t. 77 h). Hindwing above with black marginal dots in 1 c and 2. boeticus. 
Wings above light violettish-blue with a fine black marginal line. $. Wings above grey with a blue reflection 
in the centre. In the whole of Africa and Arabia, and in all the islands. — Larva in the fruits of Leguminosae 
(vid. Vol. I, p. 291 and Vol. IX, p. 895). 
Eleventh Group. 
(Cyclyrius- Group.) 
Eyes hairy. Vein 11 of the forewing separate. Hindwing tailless. The spots beneath are generally 
only prominent by their light bordering and are sometimes almost entirely effaced in the forewing. Forewing 
