Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
Mas. (Zambesi, Rowley. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxoniæ). Alis anticis supra
fuscis, costa ad basim maculaque late trigona versus angulum externum
marginis postici rufis; alis posticis rufis, basi venisque versus
angulum externum nigricantibus: alis infra castaneo-rufis, costa
anticarum basi, guttisque tribus argenteis ut in fœmina, squamis
perpaucis argenteis in lineas transversas dispositis; alis posticis
strigis tribus undulatis gracilibus obscurioribus guttisque nonnullis
argenteis prope caudam. Margo externus alarum anticarum in medio
angulatus, inter medium et angulum posticum emarginatus.
Genus POLYOMMATUS, Latreille.
63. (1) POLYOMMATUS TELICANUS, Hübner, Eur. Schm. Pap. f. 371–2,
553–4; Godart; Boisduval; Trimen, p. 238.
Tati, the Gwailo River, and near the Victoria Falls.
64. (2) POLYOMMATUS OTACILIA, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1868, p.
90.
Near the Victoria Falls, in January.
65. (3) POLYOMMATUS SYBARIS, Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb.
pl. 26, f. 6–8; Trimen, p. 242.
Near the Victoria Falls, in January.
Genus LYCÆNA, Fabricius.
66. (1) LYCÆNA PARSIMON, Fabricius; Godart; Boisduval.
_Papilio Celæus_, Cramer, pl. 379, f. K, K; Trimen, p. 247.
_Lycæna Asteris_, Godart; Wallengren, Lep. Caffr. p. 40.
Var. _Lycæna Methymna_, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1862, p. 280.
Male, Ramaqueban River, in February; female, Bamangwato, Tati.
67. (2) LYCÆNA JESOUS, Guérin in Lefebvre’s Voy. Abyss. pl. 11,
f. 3, 4; Wallengren, Lep. Caffr. p. 39; Trimen, p. 350.
Near the Gwailo River, October 12, 1873.
68. (3) LYCÆNA ASOPUS, Hopffer in Peters’s Reise Mossamb. pl.
26, f. 13–15; Trimen, p. 249.
69. (4) LYCÆNA LOCHIAS? MSS.?
Alis supra fuscis purpureo parum squamosis, posticis maculis duabus
inequalibus nigris pallidius cinctis, submarginalibus, ciliis albis:
alis subtus pallide fuscis albidoque alternatim fasciatis; posticis
macula nigra intus aurantiaco, extus argenteo, notata, alteraque simili
sed multo minori ad angulum analem, cauda nulla. Expans. alar. antic.
lin. 10.
Locality not indicated.
Genus CHRYSOPHANUS, Hübner.
70. (1) CHRYSOPHANUS LARA, Linnæus; Fabricius; Trimen, p. 260.
_Papilio Jolaus_, Cramer, pl. 270, fig. F, G.
_Papilio Gorgias_, Stoll, pl. 33, f. 5, 5d.
Family HESPERIIDÆ.
Genus ISMENE, Swainson.
71. (1) ISMENE PISISTRATUS, Fabricius; Jones, Icones, vol. vi.
pl. 26, f. 1 (Typus in Mus. Britann.)
_Note._--The black mark extending from near the anal margin on
the under side of the hind wings, was more divided than usual in
Drury’s specimen, figured by Jones, so as to have led Fabricius
to describe the hind wings as four-spotted.
_Rhopalocampta Valmaran_, Wallengren, Lep. Caffr. p. 48.
Var. Fascia alba latitudine æquali absque maculis nigris.
_Papilio Forestan_, Cramer, pl. 391, f. E, F; Godart; Boisduval;
Trimen, p. 318.
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