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CUPID0. By Dr. C. Attrivillitts. 
tsomo. 
noquasa. 
kisaba. 
notoba. 
normal with a large spot in the discal cell. The basal spots of the hindwing are indistinct, but the subbasal 
spots numerous (5 or 6) and almost form a transverse band. The discal spots are large and combined into a 
usually almost straight transverse band; the discal spot 7 in such species being situate just as near at the margin 
as the discal spot 6. Another peculiarity of the group is that the black marginal spot in area 1 c of the hindwing 
is almost invariably absent. The species seem to prefer mountainous districts and some are evidently alpine 
dwellers. 
Review of the Species. 
A. The discal spot 7 of the hindwing is not situate nearer at the base than the discal spot 6. The discal band 
is therefore almost straight. 
a. Fringes of the wings not speckled. 
*. Hindwing beneath with a greyish-brown ground-colour. Forewing beneath with distinct though 
not sharply prominent markings. 
1. Marginal spot of area 2 on the hindwing small, punctiform or entirely absent. — Wings abov T e 
brown, only at the base as far as the apex of the cell covered with violettish-blue. C. tsomo. 
2. Marginal spot of area 2 on the hindwing large and jet-black. — Wings above light violettish- 
blue; forewing with a broad, hindwing with a narrow dark marginal band. C. noquasa. 
**. Hindwing beneath with a whitish ground-colour and sharply prominent markings. Forewing beneath 
with an entirely effaced marking. C. kisaba. 
[3. Fringes of the wings spotted white and black. 
*. Hindwing beneath without a white transverse band. — Wings above light blue with a dark mar¬ 
ginal band. C. notoba. 
**. Hindwing beneath behind the middle with a white, coherent or in the centre interrupted transverse 
band, lighter whitish at the costal margin between the discal band and the subbasaJ spot in area 7 
as well as in the anterior longitudinal half of the discal cell. Marginal spot of the hindwing surrounded 
with yellowish. 
1. Smaller, 18 to 20 mm. — <§. Wings above blue with a narrow black marginal band 
C. aequatorialis. 
2. Larger, about 25 mm. Wings above from the base to beyond the middle with a violet or blue 
reflection, at the margin very broad brown. C. juno. 
B. The discal spot 7 of the hindwing is much farther remote from the margin than the discal spot 6. Fringes 
of the wings spotted white. C. craivshayinus. 
C. subditus. 
C. tsomo Trim. Wings in both sexes above dark brown, in the $ in the basal nart with a bluish reflec¬ 
tion, in the $ almost uni-coloured brown. Wings beneath with a grey ground-colour and with spots bordered 
by whitish. Markings of the forewing dull, but not effaced; discal band of the hind wing towards the margin 
bordered by a dull, whitish-grey transverse band. Cape Colony and Caffraria. 
C. noquasa Trim. (74 g) is very closely allied to tsomo and differs, except by the marks stated in 
the review, also by the light border-lines of the discal spots beneath and the light trans'v erse band of the hinclwing 
being whiter and thereby more prominent. Cape Colony, Natal, and German East Africa. 
C. kisaba Joic. Talb. has of late (1921) been described as a Catochrysops and is only known to me 
by the description and figure. The description runs, somewhat abridged, as follows: above dark blackish-brown 
without any other markings but a small, rounded, black marginal spot in area 2. Forewing beneath light oclireous- 
brown with an indistinct spot in the centre and at the end of the cell and a similar marginal line. Hindwing 
beneath with a white ground-colour and sharply defined dark brown markings. The basal area is covered with 
white hair; a basal spot in 7, another in the cell and in 1 b; a subbasal spot in 7, another in the posterior part 
of the discal cell and a third between vein 2 and the proximal margin; the discal band is coherent and consists 
of 9 spots of which that in 4 is longer extended towards the margin and that in 2 is somewhat nearer to the 
base than the others; a round, black marginal spot curled orange and brown is in 2; a brown marginal spot 
in 3. It was captured by F. A. Barns in the Kisaba Forest, to the east of Lake Kivu, at an altitude of 
2200 m. 
C. notoba Trim, has a brownish-grey, somewhat yellowish under surface with a normal number of 
somewhat darker spots being prominent owing to the white border-lines. In the <$ both wings above are light- 
blue as far as the narrow marginal band, in the $ only in the basal ‘part with a blue reflection. Cape 
Colony to Transvaal. 
