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and German East Africa. — ab. obscura Stiff, deviates by the red bands and streaks beneath of the typical obscura. 
form being here brown {<$) or black ($). In the $ the black colouring above is besides more expanded. German 
East Africa near Mhonda. 
H. cobaltina Auriv. (= coeculus Mab.) (67 c) is in Madagascar the representative of coeculus and cobaltina. 
easily recognizable by the marks stated in the review. A remarkable fact is that the dark blue colour of the 
$ fore wing above is in the areas 4 and 5 distally more prominent than in coeculus and rounded off f hereby the 
black marginal band is almost equally broad as far as vein 6 or 7. 
H. maryra Mab. is unknown to me, but according to the figure above and beneath very much like maryra. 
the preceding species and it chiefly differs only by the two red dots bordered with light in area 8 on the hind¬ 
wing beneath and the less bright red transverse markings beneath. Of the two dots of area 8 on the hindwing 
one is situate within the dot in area 7 and the other in a straight line with the transverse streak at the end 
of the discal cell; the discal band of the forewing beneath is undulate, but as in cobaltina almost straight. 
Madagascar. — mabillei nom. n. (— ceres Mob., non Hew.). Between Mabille’s figures of maryra and ,,ceres “ mabillei. 
I can only discover the difference that in ,,ceres“ the discal band of the forewing beneath forms a large distal 
prominence at vein 5, and that the same band on the hindwing is almost dissolved into thick streaks in the 
areas 4 to 6. In the $ the blue colour above is lighter, less extensive and at the end of the cell of the 
forewing decorated with a white spot. This form is probably only a race or a variation of maryra. Madagascar. 
H. margites L. Mab. is unknown to me, but according to the description it is presumably most margites. 
closely allied with ceres (dolores ) (67 b). ,,Smaller than ceres Hew.] forewing black with a dark blue lighter 
part at the posterior margin; hindwing except the costal margin almost entirely blue; both wings beneath 
red-brown, forewing a little behind the middle with a white transverse line, behind it the marginal part is 
greyish-violet towards the apex and red-brown at the anal angle; the violet part is strewn with small, red trans¬ 
verse strigae, area 1 b bluish and lustrous; fringes grey and accompanied by a red marginal line. Hindwing 
beneath coloured as forewing and with a white transverse line parted by the red discal line; at the base there 
are two red transverse lines: one at the cell-end, and another, undulate one nearer at the base; both 
are continued on the forewing; the marginal part is light grey with a red submarginal line, at the costal margin 
more whitish, towards the anal angle reddish; the latter terminates into a long, small tail showing a brownish- 
red spot at the base; marginal line red.“ Madagascar. 
8. Genus: Stugetsi Drc. 
The species of this genus were formerly enumerated in the Iolaus from which they deviate by [he forewing 
having only 10 veins, veins 8 and 9 being absent. Thereby they agree with H ypolycaena from which, however, 
they differ by somewhat thicker antennae with shorter joints. Frons broad, white, in the middle longitudinally 
grooved. Palpi long, with smooth appressed scales, without bristles. Antennae rather thick, gradually thickened 
with a long, circular club. Anterior tibiae on the inside with stiff bristles. Marking abundant; transverse lines 
beneath sharply dentate. Sexes similar to each other. The <$ without any mealy spots or hair-pencil. 
The dark markings beneath rather closely resemble those of Hypolycaena coeculus (67 b). The forewing 
has a spot at the base of the cell, a transverse line across the middle of the cell as far as vein 1, a transverse 
streak at the cell-end, a generally very thick irregularly broken discal barrel, a fine submarginal line and a thick 
marginal band. The hindwing has a transverse line across the middle of the cell, reaching veins 8 and 1 b at 
which it turns round towards the base, a transverse streak at the cell-end, a sharply dentate discal line or discal 
band, a fine undulate submarginal line generally expanded like spots in the areas 6 and 7, and a marginal line. 
These markings are entirely separated only in marmorea (68 c) and are strongly thickened in the other 
species and more or less flown together. 
Review of the Species. 
I. Wings above with a white ground-colour or with several white spots. 
A. The dark discal band of the forewing is on both sides, from the costal margin to vein 2 or 1, broad and 
coherent, its spots in 5 to 7 always smaller than that in 4. Wings above as far as beyond the middle 
light blue, in the middle and in the marginal half with separate white spots. 
a. The discal band of the hind wing beneath is not or moderately thickened and everywhere separated 
by a broad band of the white ground-colour from the submarginal line. S. botvkeri. 
(h The almost black discal band of the hindwing beneath is united with the basal band by a transverse 
spot at the costal margin in area 7, and in the areas 3 and 4 it forms two very large spots 4 to 5 mm 
broad, reaching to the submarginal line. S. maria. 
