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Show 1893.] BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 661 median branch; a submarginal series of almost confluent olive-brown dashes ; secondaries with three rounded black equidistant spots across the basal area, a black discocellular bar and a double arched series of eight black spots across the disk; a submarginal undulated line, the first four divisions of which are olive-brown and the remainder saffron-yellow; beyond this line is a series of more or less defined pale yellow spots, succeeded near anal angle by a single black spot crossed by a metallic blue crescent, a double black spot sprinkled with metallic blue scales, and a black dot in the angle itself; body below white. Expanse of wings 40-43 millim. 2 • Larger than the male, the basal area sometimes to beyond the middle suffused with lilac; a large black spot at the end of the discoidal cell of primaries ; primaries below with an additional black discal spot; in other respects like the male excepting that the female from Zomba has the discocellular bar and the spots at centre of discal series on the secondaries well-defined in black on the upper surface. Expanse of wings 47-54 millim. 3 3 , Forests of Tiveta and Wasin in coll. B.M. 2 2 > Victoria Nyanza and Zomba; the former in the Museum, the latter in the present series. I have long hesitated to describe this very distinct species on account of the more or less damaged condition of all the specimens, and I had hoped M r . Grose Smith would long since have relieved me from the necessity of doing so, but this I cannot discover that he has done. The species appears to m e to come nearest to C. azureus from Madagascar, of which it is possible that C. leucon, Mab., may be the female, in spite of the extraordinary difference of pattern on the under surface of the primaries. 87. AZANUS NATALENSIS. Lyccena natalensis, Trimen, South Afr. Butt. ii. p. 77, n. 158 (1887). Zomba, July 1892. 88. TARUCUS PULCHER. Lyccena pulchra, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 524, pi. 10. figs. 7, 8. J Zomba, July and December 1892, January 1893. 89. TATURA PHILIPPUS. Hesperia philippus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 283, n. 87 (1793). 2 , Zomba, January 1893. 90. TATURA C^ECULUS. Iolaus caiculus, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berlin, 1855, p. 642, n. 17; Peters's Reise nach Mossamb. v. p. 402, pi. 25. figs. 12-14 (1862). 2 , Zomba, January 1893. |
