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CUPIDO. By Dr. C. Aitrivillitts. 
almost to the costal margin filled np with orange. — Wings above of a delicate violettish bine, at the 
apex and margin broadly dark brown; the yellow submarginal band of the hindwing particularly above narrower 
and shorter. — Wings above with a lighter blue ground-colour; forewing at the costal margin, apex and 
distal margin broader blackish-brown; hindwing particularly above with a broader and longer orange marginal 
ochreopunc- band. South Africa to Angola and in the whole of East Africa to Uganda and Abyssinia. — ab. ochreoputicta 
ta ■ ab. nov. only differs by the subbasal and discal dots of the hindwing being ochreous. Damaraland, Griqualand, 
conjungens. Transvaal, Delagoa Bay. —- ab. conjungens Strd. is allied to C. cissus by the forewing beneath showing a small 
black dot in the discal cell. German East Africa. 
Twenty-first Group. 
The species belonging hereto were hitherto placed to the genus Catochrysops, but as Bethune-Baker 
has already stated, they differ from the group of Catochryso'ps (type C. straho). Of the Ethiopian species 
unfortunately only C. eleusis and contractus were before me. They are distinguished by the following marks. 
Eyes bare. Frons white with no or but few black bristles. Vein 11 of the forewing touches vein 12 or it is very 
close to it. Hindwing at the end of vein 2 tailed, beneath in area 1 c without a subbasal dot, but with two 
black marginal dots covered with metallic scales. The subbasal dots of the areas la, 7 and of the cell are 
small or absent. Hindwing above at least in 2 with a distinct black marginal dot. Small species with an 
expanse of wings of 18 to 27 mm. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Hindwing above without a yellow submarginal spot in area 2 or in the $ with an indistinct pale yellow 
submarginal spot. 
a. Discal spot in 1 b of the hindwing small, black, and punctiform or entirely absent; if present, much 
nearer at the base than the spot in 1 c. C. eleusis. 
C. nigeriae. 
C. lois. 
(3. Discal spot in 1 b of the hindwing pale and transverse, slightly nearer at the base than the discal spot 
1 c. The discal spots 1 b to 3 of the forewing and 1 c to 5 of the hindwing are elongate, strigiform. 
C. contractus. 
B. Hindwing above in area 2 with an orange submarginal spot within the black marginal spot. Discal spot 
1 b of the hindwing pale and transverse, like the discal spot in 1 c. C . distractus. 
C. eleusis Demais. This species is beneath rather variable and occurs at least in two forms; one 
with strigiform and the others with rounded discal spots in the areas 1 c to 5 of the hindwing. Also the black 
marginal spots in 1 c to 3 of the hindwing are very variable, sometimes larger, sometimes very small. 
The ground-colour of the under surface of the hindwing also varies from almost white to light yellowish-brown. 
As the older authors described the marking beneath only very superficially without comparing it with the 
normal marking of the species of Cupido , it is impossible to ascertain which forms they had in fact before them. 
eleusis. I consider, however, the following form to be the type. — eleusis Demais. (74 g). Both wings, particularly the 
hindwing, beneath with a greyish-yellow ground-colour. The discal spots 1 c to 6 of the hindwing rounded 
off and similar to the ground-colour, those of the forewing sometimes only 5 (in 2 to 6) pale and rounded 
off, sometimes 6 darker and strigiform; the discal spots lc and 2 of the hindwing are not equally distant 
from the base and not situate in a transverse line vertical to the proximal margin. Marginal spots 1 c and 3 
of the hindwing beneath small, punctiform and covered with silvery scales. Fringes broad white with a dark 
basal line. —- Wings above light of a delicate violettish blue with a fine dark marginal line and a small black 
marginal dot in area 2, the marginal dots of the other areas being indistinct. —- $. Wings above dark 
brown, in and behind the cell dusted with bluish; the marginal spots of the hindwing are larger and more distinct, 
in white rings, the spot in 2 besides jwoximally bordered with light yellow; before the marginal spots in the 
strigatus. areas 1 c to 4 a transverse row of white submarginal spots. Senegal, Nubia, Abyssinia. —- strigatus form. nov. 
C- Above quite similar to the C of eleusis, but with 4 distinct black marginal spots, two small ones in 1 c, a 
large one in 2, and a smaller one in 3. Ground-colour beneath almost white with yellowish-brown strigiform 
markings; black are only the subbasal dots (in 1 a, 7 and the cell), the discal spots 1 b and 7 as well as the 
marginal spots 1 c to 3 and a minute pointed spot at the anal angle in 1 b of the hindwing; the marginal spots 1 c 
to 3 are as above, though with some metallic scales; marginal spots4to 6 narrow, strigiform, yellowish-brown like 
all the marginal spots of the forewing; then follows on both wings a yellowish-brown submarginal line, and 
between the latter and the discal spots an irregular, somewhat dentate, indistinctly defined, pale yellowish-brown 
transverse line which is removed more towards the base in the areas 1 c and 2 (resp. 1 b and 2) and is 
evidently the remainder of the original ground-colour. The discal spots 1 c to 6 of the hindwing and 1 b to 6 
of the forewing are strigiform and somewhat irregularly arranged, the spots 1 c and 2 of the hindwing and 
