CUPIDO. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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the ground-colour; forewing with 5 discal spots, that in 4 being longish and slanting; the proximal yellow 
bordering of the marginal spot 2 of the hindwing is indistinct or absent. — d- Wings above dull violettish-blue, 
at the costal and distal margins broadly brown; forewing with a median spot, hindwing without it. — In the 
$ the blue colour is paler, still more reduced, and the median spot of the forewing larger. Natal; Transvaal. 
C. barkeri Trim. (73.k). Hindwing tailed, beneath in area lc without a subbasal dot, but close at barken. 
vein 1 b with a small, black marginal dot covered with metallic scales and towards the base bordered with 
yellow; subbasal dot in 1 a absent or only marked; ground-colour beneath light grey. — rj. Wings above of 
a delicate violet with an indistinctly defined dark marginal band and with a fine white submarginal line in 1 c 
to 3; eyespot. in 2 large and distinct. — The $ differs above in the violettish-blue colour being reduced and 
leaving space for a broad brown costal-marginal band; in addition the white spots bordering on the submarginal 
lines and the white rings of the marginal spots (on the hindwing) are visible also above. Sierra Leone, Congo, 
Angola, Natal to German East Africa, Rhodesia, Ruwenzori. 
C. dolorosus Trim. (73 f). Hindwing not tailed, beneath in area 1 c without a subbasal dot, but with dolorosus. 
a black, metallic scaled marginal dot close at vein 1 b. Under surface brown with slightly darker spots. — d- 
Wings above dark dull violet, at the distal margin narrowly brown, without median spots; hindwing at the 
distal margin with black marginal spots distally bordered by a fine white line. — $. Forewing above at the costal 
and distal margins very broadly brown. Natal; Transvaal, District of Tanganyika. 
C. subpallidus B.-Bak. (74 c) is very closely allied to dolorosus and seems to be chiefly onl;y distinguished .subpallidus. 
by the lighter under surface with darker discal spots. — d- Wings above light violet; forewing both at the 
distal margin and costal margin broadly brown; hindwing with a fine dark marginal line and traces of 
marginal spots in 3 to 6; marginal spot 2 black. — $. Wings above brown with bright violettish-blue scales 
at the base and in the centre. British East Africa and Rhodesia. — major B.-Bak. only differs in its larger major. 
size (34 to 36 mm) and deeper violet colour of the upper surface. Nairobi, Laitokitok, Ribwezi, Rhodesia. 
C. mauensis B.-Bak. as well as subpallidus are unknown to me; it is said to differ only in the darker mauemis. 
ground-colour beneath and the narrower dark margins above in the d- Hindwing on both sides with a yellow 
border of the marginal spot in 2. British East Africa: Mau. 
C. albistriatus Capr. Frons white, above with two rows of black bristles. Hindwing not tailed, beneath albistriatu.s. 
in area 1 c without a subbasal dot and without a black marginal dot (which is sometimes marked by some 
metallic scales), but with a yellow transverse stripe near the margin; under surface whitish-grey with normal 
marking, except the yellow border of the marginal spot 2 being very broad and being extended into the areas 
1 c and 3. — d- Wings above light blue; forewing with a broad, distinctly defined dark marginal band; hindwing 
with traces of marginal spots also in 3 to 6 and in 1 c to 3 with a fine, white submarginal line. $ unknown to 
me. Sierra Leone, Congo District, Uganda. 
C. lafrunculatus Griinb. is unknown to me and is described as follows: ,,d- Upper surface dull bluish- lalruncula- 
violet with a bronze tint. Forewing with a distinct, blackish discocellular spot and a blackish marginal band of ,lts ' 
U /2 to 2 mm width. Marginal band of hindwing somewhat narrower, costal margin of hindwing likewise darker; 
the black marginal spot in area 2 is distally very narrowly edged with a bluish white, proximally more broadly 
with orange, hinder surface silvery grey with a brownish tint, the discal spots, discal bands and marginal bands 
somewhat darker than the ground-colour and distinctly edged with white. Discal spots irregularly arranged, 
since in both wings the spot in area 2 is somewhat proximally removed. In the hindwing 4 distinct, white- 
edged basal spots, one each in the areas 1 a, l b, 7, and in the cell; the same is the case with the discal spot 
in area 7. Marginal spot in area 2 jet-black, distally edged with some pale blue scales, proximally broadly bordered 
with orange; the brown marginal spots of the areas 1 c and 3 are likewise proximally bordered with yellow. 
Hindwing not tailed. Expanse of wings: 29 mm.“ Cameroon: Yaunde District. The species, in Grunberg’s 
opinion, is closely allied to C. albistriatus Capr. and seems only to differ in the subbasal dot in area 1 c of the 
hindwing. 
C. katangae B.-Bak. is very closely allied to latrunculatus and only differs in the area 1 c of the katangae. 
hindwing exhibiting also above a large yellow spot at the margin and in the dull violet colour of the d wing 
above. In the $ two thirds of the wings above are whitish with a blue reflection. Southern Congo District: 
Kambowe. 
C. nandensis Neave. Frons black with white lateral margins. Eyes hairy. Hindwing not tailed, beneath nandcnsis. 
in area 1 c without a subbasal dot and without black marginal dots, but with a reddish-yellow submarginal 
transverse spot. Under surface dark brown with distinctly prominent white markings and slightly darker 
discal spots. —- d- Wings above blackish-brown; forewing only at the posterior margin of the discal cell and 
in the basal part of the areas 1 a to 4 feebly scaled violettish-blue; hindwing in the areas 1 c to 5 as far as 
the broad marginal band and in 6 at the base scaled violettish-blue; the marginal spots are indistinctly bordered 
by bluish scales and, at least in 2 and 3, towards the base surrounded with a yellowish red. £ unknown. British 
East Africa, 
