Publ. 20. IV. 1925. 
CUPIDO. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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C. plebejus Btlr. (74 a). Hindwing tailed, beneath with a subbasal dot in lc and a small marginal plebejus. 
dot covered with green scales and proximally bordered with yellow in area 1 c, close at vein 1 b. — Wings 
above uni-coloured pale greyish-brown, with markings showing through from beneath; hindwing with an eyespot 
in area 2. — £. Wings above blue; forewing with a broad brown costal-marginal and distal-marginal band and 
a large median spot; hindwing with a transverse streak at the end of the discal cell, two transverse rows of 
whitish postmedian spots, and often also with distinct dark discal spots in 3 to 5; the marginal spot 2 is large 
and distinct. Natal, Transvaal, Mashona Land, Rhodesia. 
C. parsimon F. (= abyssiniensis Strand , loveni Auriv., kivuensis Joic. & Talbot) (73 g, h). Hindwing parsimon. 
not tailed, beneath with a subbasal dot in area 1 c. — <$. Wings above uni-coloured brown without markings 
showing through from beneath; marginal spot 2 of hindwing feebly developed. — $. Wings above brown, from 
the base to beyond the centre whitish with violettish-blue scales; forewing with a large median spot and brown 
submarginal band, which is separated by light spots from the likewise dark marginal band. Sierra Leone to 
Angola, Rhodesia, Victoria-Nyanza, and Uganda. 
C. victoriae Karsch (= acholi B.-Bak.) (73 g). Hindwing not tailed and without a subbasal dot in victoriae. 
area 1 c. — <^. Wings above uni-coloured dark brown without markings showing through from beneath, with 
an eyespot in area 2 of the hindwing. — $. Wings above whitish with blue scales, at the base blackish; forewing 
at the costal margin narrowly, at the distal margin broadly darkened; hindwing with dark, light-edged marginal 
spots and the usual eyespot in area 2. Particularly distinguished by the distinct black discal spots which also 
often occur on the forewing above. British East Africa, Uganda. 
C. quassi Karsch (= phasma Butl.) (73 i). Hindwing tailed, beneath without a subbasal dot and qvassi. 
black marginal dots in area 1 c. — $ ■ Wings above dull violettish-blue with a black marginal band of 1 to 2 mm 
width; hindwing with an eyespot in area 2. — Wings above brown, in the basal part violettish-blue. 
behind the centre broadly whitish; forewing with a large median spot, with or without discal spots and with 
a row of submarginal dots; hindwing above with a transverse streak at the cell-end, two or several discal spots 
and large marginal spots, of which that in 2 is bordered with yellow. Ashanti; Lagos. Larva on a Liabata. 
The pupa rests in the nest of an ant Camponotus mandat us. 
C. synchrematizus B.-Bak. (74 d). Hindwing not tailed and without a subbasal dot in area 1 c. — synchrema- 
<§. Wings above dull violettish-blue; forewing with a median spot; hindwing generally with a black marginal tizus. 
spot in 2. — $. Wings above brown at the base, but in the forewing scaled blue as far as beyond the centre; 
hindwing with large marginal spots, that in 2 being proximally bordered with yellow. Sierra Leone. 
C. solwezii B.-Bak. (74 c) only differs from synchrematizus in the marks stated in the review. — solivezii. 
Forewing with an indistinct median spot, hindwing with a distinct eyespot in 2. North-West Rhodesia and on 
Lake Tanganyika. 
C. glaucus Trim. (74 d) differs from all the other species in the lustrous pale silvery blue upper surface glaucus. 
of both wings in the Both wings above with fine black veins in the marginal part and with a narrow black 
marginal line; forewing with a fine transverse streak at the end of the cell; hindwing in area 2 with a black 
marginal spot generally bordered with yellow. The $ is similar to the $$ of the allied species; wings above 
at the base as far as beyond the centre of a pale lustrous blue, with a brown costal-margin and marginal band, 
and only on the forewing with a median spot. Transvaal, Matabele and Mashona Land. 
C. chloauges B.-Bak. in every detail exactly corresponds with C. glaucus (74 d) and only differs in chtnauges. 
the silvery blue or blue colour of the upper surface being in both sexes replaced by a metallic, yellowdsh-green 
colour. Rhodesia. 
C. polydialectus B.-Bak. (74 d). Hindwing tailless and without a subbasal dot in area 1 c, on both polydialec- 
sides with an eyespot in area 2 and beneath with a small black marginal dot covered with green scales and / " s '- 
bordered with yellow in 1 c close at vein 1 b. Under surface with a very light, whitish-grey ground-colour. - 
<$. Wings above light violettish-blue with a fine black marginal line and fine transverse streaks at the cell-end 
—- §. Wings above like in the allied $$ at the costal and distal margins broadly brown, other .vise whitish, 
intensely scaled violettish-blue. East Africa: Kadugli, Ullal, Kibwezi. 
C. aethiopia B.-Bak. (74 e). Hindwing tailed at vein 2, beneath in area 1 c without a subbasal sjxot aethiopm. 
but with a black marginal dot close at vein 1 b. — $. Wings above pale bluish-violet; forewing with a black 
median spot and a broad dark marginal band; hindwing, as otherwise only in the $$, above with large dark 
marginal spots surrounded with a light colour in 1 c to 6, the spots in 1 c and 2 being proximally bordered 
with yellow. The £ only differs from the $ in both wings being very broadly brown at the costal and distal 
margins. Natal and Portuguese East Africa. 
C. nyasae B.-Bak. (74 e) is only known in the female and could therefore not be ranged in the review nyasae. 
of the species. Hindwing tailed at vein 2, beneath in area 1 c with a subbasal spot and black marginal dot 
at vein 1 b. Ground-colour beneath whitish. Forewdng above scaled violettish-blue, at the costal margin 
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