LYCJENID^. ^35 



each wincr : a blackish hind-marginal border, in hnd-wmg 

 intersected by a row of white lunules. Hind-wmg: hind- 

 marginal white line conspicuous ; spots black, the tirst 

 oran-c-lunuled. Under-side.— As in $ ', but all white 

 edffinss broader, conspicuous; outer edging of transverse 

 fascia and inner submarginal row of lunules sometimes 

 suffused and confluent, forming a white band. . , , , 



The anal-angular region of hind-wing of $ is considerably- 

 produced. , 

 T do not feel certain as to the sppcit^s just described being truly Godart s 

 Emolm, wliiob is noted as possessing a white-riuged black spot about 

 n.iddle of inner-maroia of bind wing, and but one spot on l""d-margm- 

 Wallcn-ren's diagnosis of Sichela accords well with the examples above 

 characterised witli regard to the upper-surfacp, but I «'f "-^l/^^^.V^^""^;,'^ 

 his rather complicated description of the n;arkmgs of under-side of bind-w.ng 

 with the specimens before me. Wallengren notes 5^^/^r'/« as ecaudata 

 but as the little tufls in the Li/c^nm which I describe nre often wantmg in 

 v.orn individuals, I do not find this a difference of an.v importance. Mr 

 D'Urban informs me that an example in the British Museum, apparently 

 identical with his Kaffrarian specimens, is labelled " Borneo. 

 Not uncommon. Gardens and bushy spots. 

 August (b)-Sept. (b) ; October (e)-Apnl (e). 



This is a rapid flier, but only for a very short distance at a time. In 

 habits as well as in robust structure it approaches the genus Ihecla. It is 

 fond of settling on young shoots sf oak-slumps. Common in some seasons 

 in the Botanic Gardens, Gape Town. 1 only saw a single specimen at 

 Knysua. 



Cape Town. Knysna. Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. 

 Jiowker).— Coll. Tri. et Coll. S. A. Mus. 



King William's Town.— Coll. W. D'Urban. ^ 



" Bengal."— Godt, " Amazoulu Country."— Boisd. 



137. Lycsena Amarah. 



Polyommatus Amarah, Gucr., Voy. en Ahjss., pfjrLefehr., 

 ^ [p. 384, t. 11, f. 5, 0. ?. 



LycEena Amarah, JVallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 40. 

 Exp. 11 lin.— 1 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Pale-grey, with a metallic suh-hrassy lustre : a brown 

 hind-marqinal hounding line ; cilia greyish-white. Hind-wing: 

 traces of two rows of dull-whitish lunules,— those of outer 

 row combining with a whitish inner edging of hinc -marginal 

 line to form imperfect rings, and the two last enlarged and 

 oranqe (the upper with an adjacent black spot) on either side 

 of third median nervule ; a slender, tail like tuft of xclute 

 hairs at end of third median nervule, a7id a similar tiijt at 

 end of submedian nervure. V^D^K-^in^.—Broiomsh-grey; 



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