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represented by black spots, corresponding to those above; they are at their margins decorated with metallic 
blue scales. Expanse of wings: 20 mm.“ Senegal. This species must be closely allied or identical with the + 
of C. eleusis Dem. 
Three other species described by Walker in 1870 as Lampides $$, probably also belong near to C. 
eleusis and contractus. It is not mentioned whether the hindwing has a small tail or not. The size varies between 
20 and 25 mm. These species are: 
C. lyce Walk. Metallic brown, at the margin dark brown; fringes white. Hindwing: a submarginal lyce. 
band of white spots; three jet-black spots at the margin near the anal angle. Under surface white, towards the 
base grey; seven brown, more or less irregular transverse lines, the seventh being antemarginal and broken 
up into spots. Hindwing with two jet-black dots at the base and with three jet-black spots at the anal angle, 
which are decorated with metallic blue scales and proximally bordered with ochreous-yellow.“ Somali Land: 
Tajora. 
C. bura Walk. ,,$. Metallic brown; marginal line dark brown; fringes white. Under surface light burn. 
brown, with eight hardly undulate white transverse lines, the two innermost of which are interrupted and 
shortened. Hindwing beneath with a jet-black, white-ringed dot in the centre near the base and with three 
larger jet-black spots near the anal angle; they are decorated with lustrous blue scales and proximally bordered 
with ochreous-yellow.“ Somali Land: Tajora. 
C. pandama Walk. ,,9- Metallic brown with a faint blue hue, at the base deep blue, fringes white, pandama. 
Under surface white with different, irregular or incomplete, more or less light brown transverse bands, some 
of which are edged with dark brown. Hindwing with fewer and more irregular bands, and with two jet-black 
marginal spots on each side of the small tail; they are decorated with lustrous blue scales.“ Sudan: Hor-Tamanib. 
27. Genus: Hco«les Balm. 
This genus is better known by the name of Chrysophanus Him. (cf. Vol. I, p. 281; Vol. V, p. 812, and 
Vol. IX, p. 931), but it must be named Heodes, because this name is surely older. 
Eyes bare. Frons moderately broad with yellow or grey bristles and a very fine or indistinct white 
lateral line. Antennae moderately long, little projecting beyond the centre of the forewing or hardly reaching 
to it. Forewing only with 11 veins, vein 8 being absent; vein 11 runs separately; the upper discooellular vein 
is absent, and the veins 6 and 7 + 9 therefore start from the same place. 
In the marking the species of Heodes differ from those of the genus Cupido by the discal cell of the 
forewing beneath showing two large black dots following one after the other in a straight line with the central 
spot; the distal one of these dots usually also occurs above; besides the forewing has on both sides an interrupted 
transverse row of 5 to 7 discal spots and beneath generally also some dark submarginal streaks; the marginal 
spots, however, are entirely absent or only feebly marked beneath at the apex. The hindwing, like in the 
species of Cupido, shows 3 subbasal dots, a transverse streak at the end of the discal cell, black discal spots 
in 1 b to 7, a bent row of black submarginal dots clistally remote from the margin, and similar marginal 
spots united with the marginal line; all these spots, however, are generally, particularly beneath, for the 
greatest part indistinct or cpiite extinct. 
The genus chiefly only occurs in the palearctic and nearctic regions, but with some few forms it also 
penetrates into the Ethiopian region. Of these forms two are scarcely more than geographical races of the 
palearctic H. phlaeas L., whereas the third is a cpiite distinct species peculiar of South Africa. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Margin of the hindwing between the veins 1 b and 2 somewhat emarginatecl and at the anal angle distinctly 
angular. 
a. Hind wing above black with a broad red marginal band between the anal angle and vein 6. 
H. phlaeas v. pseudophlaeas. 
(L Hindwing above lustrous copper-red with distinct black discal, submarginal and marginal spots, only 
at the proximal margin broad and at the costal margin narrow black. H. abboti. 
B. Margin of the hindwing uniformly rounded off, not angular at the anal angle. H. orus. 
H. phlaeas L. var. pseudophlaeas Lucas (= menelicki Thierry-Mieg ) is very similar to the well- pseudo- 
known European H. phlaeas (Vol. I, plate 77 b) and only differs by the somewhat lighter ground-colour of the phlaeas. 
forewing above and the brownish yellow hindwing beneath. Besides the dark marginal band on the forewing 
beneath is not grey and distinct, but yellowish, and at the apex it warms into the ground-colour; only 
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