240 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA: AUSTRALIS. 



base brown ; an interrupted macular fascia before, and a very 

 irregular one about, middle ; on disc, a brown cloud, — on the 

 lower edge of which, between second and third medians, is a 

 conspicuous s?ibqiindrate ivhite spot; on either side of third 

 median nervule a faintly yellow-ringed, black, bluish-silvery- 

 dusted spot ; along hind-margin a very indistinct row of 

 confluent whitish rings. 



? . Grey-brown, shot with violet-blue from base over disc. 

 Fore-wing : s\\oxt fascia closing cell well-marked on this side, 

 its white edges suffused ; two or three suffused whitish spots 

 in broad hind-marginal brown. Hind-wing : a dark streak 

 closing cell ; rarely, a row of indistinct bluish-white marks 

 beyond middle ; a nearly obsolete hind-marginal row of 

 whitish lunules, that above, and sometimes that below, third 

 median, with an adjacent blackish spot. Under-side. — As 

 in $ . 



Not uncommon. Woods, bushy spols on hill-sides, &c. 



October (e)— May (e). " June."— D'Urbaa. 



This pretty species is very easily taken, as it is fond of hovering about 

 low bushes. It often settles on flowers. The ? is comparatively rarely 

 met with. 



Cape Town. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. Bashee River, 

 Kaff'raria.— Coll. Tri. et Coll. S. A. Mus. 



"King William's Town. Keiskamma River." — W. D'Urban, 

 in litt. 



South Africa.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



" Amazoulu Country." — Boisd. 



141. Lycaena Palemon. 



Papilio Palemon, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 390, f. E, F. 

 Lycaena Palemon, E. Doubl., List Lep. B. Mus., II, p. 40. 

 Exp. 7i lin.— 1 in. 

 Allied to L. Lingeus. 



$ . Copjjery-violaceous, with a brown hind-marginal edging: 

 cilia white, regularly interrupted with brown. Hind-wing : 

 a small blackish, pale-edged spot on hind-margin, just above 

 third median nervule. Under-side. — Very like that of 

 Lingeus, but browner. Fore-wing : no basal stria, outer edge 

 of both cellular fasciae not reaching below median nervure ; 

 costal origins of fascias more minute and separate than in 

 Lingeus; fascia beyond middle more macular, inclining 

 inwards and reaching submedian nervure ; marginal stripe 

 almost obliterated with brown, except at apex, which is 

 rather conspicuously whitish. Hind-wing : fascia about 



