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CUPIDO. By Dr. C. Attrivillius. 
kedonga. 
'paludicola. 
serrula. 
white-ringed snbbasal dots, and only the discal spot 7 being black; of the marginal spots the sixth (hi 2?) 
is black, at the edge scaled blue. Expanse of wings: 23 mm.“ Nyassa Land. 
The description differs from the figure in which all the discal spots of the hindwing are small, black 
and punctiform, not only that in 7, and neither of the orange bordering of the marginal spot on the hindwing 
above nor of the marginal spot itself there are any traces to be discovered. 
Uncertain Groups. 
I have not been able to range with certainty the following species according to the description or figures 
in one of the preceding groups set up by myself. 
C. kedonga Gr.-Sm. (= pulchristriata B.-Bak.). , )C £. Upper surface: forewing bluish-grey with silvery 
white veins, a narrow dark grey margin. Hindwing light silvery blue, at the margin with a row T of rounded black 
spots all of which are equally large, except the two small ones at the anal angle; the spots are distally finely 
edged with white; a fine dark grey marginal line; a small, fine black tail. Under surface grey. Forewing with 
the subbasal and discal spots arranged almost the same as in Everes fischeri Ev. (Vol. IX, plate 153 h) and 
E. filicanda Pryer (Vol. IX, plate 153 h). Hindwing with subbasal and discal spots surrounding the cell in 
almost the same way as in the said species; behind the discal spots follows a broad, irregular, orange transverse 
band from vein 8 to the proximal margin, and then comes a row of rounded, black, metallic scaled marginal 
spots in the light grey marginal area; fringes of both wings greyish-white.“ 
The species was described as an Everes, but whether it is indeed more closely allied to E . argiades Pallas 
(the type of Everes Hbn. Vol. f, plate 78 a), I cannot decide. 
The circumstantial and precise description of Lycaena pulchristriata by Bethune-Baker (1905), however, 
so completely agrees with kedonga, that I cannot doubt the identity of these two species. 
According to the figures and descriptions, the following marks of this species are particularly conspicuous: 
hindwing at the end of vein 2 tailed; all the discal spots and subbasal dots beneath on both wings jet-black, 
rounded, and white-ringed. Forewing beneath with two subbasal dots, close behind each other in the cell and 
in lb; the discal spots 1 b and 2 are vertical to the anal margin, somewhat within the other discal spots. 
The submarginal band and marginal spots are distinct. Hindwing beneath with three subbasal dots (in 1 a, 
7 and the cell) and eight discal dots (in lb, 1 c, 2 to 7), of which that in 2 is situate close at the posterior angle 
of the discal cell and those in 5 to 7 as generally in an almost straight line; besides at the costal margin, 
on the outside of the discal spot 7, but within the red transverse band, a dot quite similar to the discal spots, 
which is probably to be explained as the marginal spot of area 7. Hindwing on both sides and in both sexes 
on the outside of the red transverse band with 7 rounded black marginal spots, of which two are small and 
in area 1 c. 
C. paludicola Holl. ,,Upper surface with a dark grey ground-colour; hindwing with a fine marginal 
line and towards the anal angle with 6 somewhat triangular, black, blue-edged marginal spots. Under surface 
lighter than the upper; both wings at the end of the discal cell with a double, white-edged transverse line; then 
follow on both wings transverse rows of dark, light-edged markings and a submarginal row of similar bows. 
Hindwing besides with two almost square, dark brown spots at the costal margin, one at the centre, the other 
near the base, and with a similar though punctiform spot at the proximal margin near the base. Of the marginal 
spots being distinct above only those in 1 c, 2 and 3 are distinct beneath; of these spots those in 1 c are 
indistinct, but those in 2 and 3 large and very distinct; all of them are towards the base bordered by red bows 
and in the centre covered with lustrous green scales. Expanse of wings: 28 mm.“ French Congo: Ogowe 
River. 
C. serrula Mob. ,,$. Above blackish-brown with white fringes; hindwing at the anal margin with 
two rows of white spots which become indistinct towards the costal margin; at the distal margin three black 
spots, the first at the anal angle composed of two combined dots, the next is very large, the third small and 
somewhat indistinct, hereafter traces of two others; the proximal white transverse band is almost broken up 
into spots, but it extends more forward than the distal one and almost reaches to the costal angle; it thus 
borders proximally on the narrow brown transverse line between the two bands. Under surface with a greyish- 
brown ground-colour; in the forewing there are six, somewhat undulating rows of light brown spots; the 
two proximal ones form a knee before the proximal margin, the third is almost straight, the fourth is united 
with the fifth which is submarginal and forms a bow; between these two there is another which, however, does 
not cross the cell; the marginal row, finally, consists of dots; a thick marginal line is before the fringes. The 
hindwing shows the same, but somewhat more irregular marking; the submarginal line is very distinct, somewhat 
undulate, and extends within the marginal spots, of which the first and third, counting from the anal angle, are 
