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b. Hindwing beneath with a white longitudinal streak at vein 5 from the central spot to 
the submarginal line. Forewing also in area 10 with a discal dot and with a large, rounded 
basal spot in 1 b. C. lucidus. 
C. drucei. 
**. Wings above blackish-brown with black central and discal spots being distinctly prominent owing 
to its thick white rings. Forewing with a large spot in the discal cell and a similar basal spot in 
area lb. C. .stellatus. 
B. Hindwing beneath without a subbasal dot in area 1 c. Forewing without a dot in the discal cell. 
C. unigemmatus. 
C. gaika Trim. (= mylica Guen., perparva Saalm.) (74 i). Wings above light greyish-blue with gaika. 
a dark marginal band being broad in the forewing, narrow in the hindwing. §. Wings above dull brown. Ashanti; 
South and East Africa from Ovambo Land to Somali Land, Abyssinia, and Nubia. Arabia, Madagascar, Mauritius. 
Bourbon. Seychelles, Admiralty Islands. 
C. anfanossa Mob. (74 i, and Vol. IX, plate 153 e) differs from all the other species of this group, antanossa. 
except stellatus, by the position of the discal spot 6 of the hindwing. — <$. Wings above blackish-brown, from 
the base to beyond the centre dusted Avith blue, with faint traces of marginal spots. — §. Wings above blackish- 
grey, with some few blue scales in the basal part. Lake Chad, South West Sudan, Ruwenzori, Gabun, Congo, 
Mashuna Land, Natal, East Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius. 
C. minusculus Auriv. Of this small species (17 to 18 mm) only the $ is known. Wings above uni-coloured minusculus 
blackish-grey without a blue reflection; fringes whitish-grey; under surface with a grey ground-colour. South 
West Madagascar. 
C. atrigemmatus Btlr. Forewing beneath without a basal spot in 1 b. q. Wings above blue with a alrigemma- 
fine black marginal line, and a more or less broadly darkened apex of the forewing. Under surface with a dark 
grey ground-colour. $ unknown to me. Madagascar. 
C. lysimon Hbn. (Vol. I, p. 295, plate 79 c). <$. Wings above violettish-blue, at the margin broadly lysimon. 
darkened. $. Wings above blackish-brown, at the base of the forewing more or less dusted with greyish-blue. 
Common in the whole of Africa. It also occurs in Arabia and in the Island of Sao Thome, Prince’s Island, 
Comoro Islands, Mauritius, Bourbon, Seychelles, and Sokotra. 
Co lucidus Trim. (74 i). Hindwing beneath with a black basal spot in area 7 at the base of vein 8. lucidus. 
—- $. Wings above light bluish-violet with a fine black marginal line and besides with an indistinctly defined 
dark marginal band of the forewing and indistinct marginal spots of the hindwing. Under surface light grey. —- 
$. Wings above blackish-brown, only at the base and anal margin dusted with bluish. South Africa from Angola 
to Cape Colony and from there in East Africa to British East Africa. 
C. drucei B.-Balc. is unknown to me, but according to the description it must be closely allied with drucei. 
C. lucidus. Wings above smoke-brown, everywhere densely dusted with blue; forewing with a moderately 
broad, dark marginal band, on the inside of which there are traces of a row of black spots; hindwing similar 
to the forewing. Both wings beneath coffee-brown with black, white-ringed spots; forewing with two spots 
of the discal cell, the second being large; a little nearer at the margin than the latter at the costal margin a 
small dot; then a bent row of 4 discal spots, of which the hindmost is very small; an indistinct submarginal row 
of dark spots touching the white bordering of the submarginal (it is probably meant to be ,,marginal") row. 
Hindwing at the base with a row of 4 small, but distinct dots, followed by a similar subbasal row of larger 
dots; a spot at the cell-end; a very much bent row of 7 discal spots; a fine white streak from the central 
spot to the third and fourth spots of the discal row; the sub marginal row and the marginal spots as in the forewing. 
Expanse of wings: 20 mm." $ unknown. Madagascar. 
C. stellatus Trim.. (74 i) differs from all the species of Cupido known to me by the dark spots stellatus. 
beneath, which are provided with thick white rings, occurring also above. The discal spots 6 and 7 of the 
hindwing are situate as in antanossa. —- Wings above with a blackish-brown, beneath greyish-brown 
ground-colour. Cape Colony, Nyassa Land, Kilima-Ndjaro. 
C. unigemmatus Btlr. is not before me and may not belong to this group. It was described as a species unigcmma- 
of Zizera, but later on (1900) the author says that it belongs to Chilades and is allied to messapus. This is 
another proof for the uncertainty of the delimitation of the so-called ,,genera" of this group of forms. „<$. Allied 
to Z. lysimon: above smoke-brown with a faint violettish-blue reflection and a fine black marginal line; 
hindwing in area 2 with a black, light-edged marginal spot proximally feebly bordered with orange; fringes 
smoke-grey, darker in the forewing, with a blackish subbasal line. Body blackish. Under surface drab, the 
marking almost as in Z. lysimon, but the forewing with a light-edged, reniform central spot; the discal row 
consists of five white-ringed, black discal spots and two white transverse streaks in 1 b instead of the spot in 
Z. lysimon. Submarginal and marginal spots normal. Hindwing with but three, almost equidistant, black, 
