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CUPIDO. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
2. Underside with a grey ground-colour. The $$ above in the basal 
part covered with blue and with distinctly prominent black discal 
spots on the hindwing above. Large species, 40 to 48 mm. 
C. victonae. 
X X. Wings above greyish-brown with markings showing through 
from beneath. C. cinereus. 
+ +. Hindwing beneath with a black subbasal dot in area 1 c. C. parsimon. 
oo. Wings in both sexes above entirely or for a great part blue or violet. Hindwing 
generally without a subbasal dot in area 1 c. 
+ . Discal spots of forewing large, jet-black, quite roundish and arranged in a 
uniformly bent line. C. ahyssinicus. 
+ + . Discal spots of forewing not jet-black, of the usual size, and more or less 
irregularly arranged. 
X. Larger species with an expanse of 38 to 50 mm. 
—. Hindwing at least beneath with a large black, rounded marginal 
spot proximally broadly bordered with yellow in area 2. 
1. All the discal spots of the hindwing rounded and almost 
black; those in 1 c to 6 contiguous. C. dollmani, 
2. The discal spots of the hindwing not or but little darker 
than the ground-colour. 
a. d'. Wings above with a blue ground-colour. 
a’, d- Forewing above only with a dark marginal line. 
a”. Underside with a brownish-grey ground-colour. 
C. synchrematizus. 
b”. Underside with a whitish-grey ground-colour. 
C. polydialectus. 
b\ d- Forewing above with dark marginal spots proximally 
bordered with a light colour. C. negus. 
b. d- Wings above violettish-red or dark with an intense 
violet reflection. 
a’. d- Wings above dull greyish-violet with a fine dark 
marginal line. C. pteron. 
b’. d- Wings above reddish-violet with a fine dark marginal 
line. , C. solwezii. 
c\ d- Wings above brown with an intense violet reflection. 
C. jefferyi. 
-—. Hindwing beneath in area 2 with a small marginal spot which 
is proximally pointed and not or hardly bordered with yellow. 
C. hypopolia. 
X X. Smaller species with an expanse of wings of 25 to 30 mm. 
c. Hindwing without a subbasal dot in area 1 c. 
—. d- Forewing above as far as the costal margin blue or 
violet with or without a dark marginal band. 
1. d- Forewing above without a dark spot at the end of 
the discal cell. C. dolorosus. 
C. subpallidus. 
C. mauensis. 
2. d- Forewing above with a dark transverse streak or 
transverse spot at the end of the discal cell. 
a. The orange proximal border of the marginal spot 2 
of the hindwing beneath also forms a transverse spot 
in area 1 c. C. albistriatus. 
C. katangcie. 
b. Hindwing beneath without any yellow colouring before 
the margin in area 1 c, C. procerus. 
