244 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



spots of the transverse row, instead of being quadrate and nearly central, 

 are elongate, and all but the two first close to, and usually touching, those of 

 inner submarginal row, — and the subcostal stria is entire. 

 " Not common : November and February." — D'Urb., in litt. 



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



Bashee River, KafFraria (J. H. Bowker).— Coll. S. A. Mus. 



145. Lycsena Calice. 



Lycaena Calice, Hpfr., Mon. d. K. Preuss. Ah. d. Wiss., 



[1855, p. 642. 



,, „ JVallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr.^ p. 38. 



,, ,, Hpfr,, in Peters' Reise, pi. 26, f. 4, 5. 



Nearly allied to L. Rosimon, Fab., and L. Hintza, mihi. 

 Exp. 10 lin. — 1 in. 



White, with black margins and spots. Fore-wing : base, 

 costa, and inner-margin suffused with blackish ; a large, 

 elongate, black, transverse mark from inner-margin near base ; 

 a spot closing cell ; and several spots of an irregular row 

 beyond middle, joining hind-marginal black, and isolating a 

 quadrate white spot not far from apex. Hind-wing : a 

 blackish suffusion at base, along costa (leaving part of its 

 edge white), and along hind-margin ; beyond middle, a 

 much-curved row of quadrate black spots (usually more or 

 less confluent with hind-marginal blackish), widely interrupted 

 between second subcostal and discoidal nervules ; several 

 indistinct black spots at base ; in hind-marginal blackish a 

 row of indistinct black spots (of which the two next anal 

 angle are sometimes faintly bluish-silvery-dotted), occasionally 

 whitish-ringed, always followed by a thin white line, indistinct 

 towards costa. Cilia oi fore-wing blackish, with a white spot 

 at anal angle ; of hind-wing whitish, more or less blackish at 

 origin. Under-side. — White, with black strics and spots: 

 pattern as in Rosimon and Hintza, but nearer Rosimon. 

 Fore-wing : subcostal stripe ending abruptly in a spot on 

 costa before end of cell; stria from inner-margin more regular; 

 stria closing cell straighter ; spots of transverse row beyond 

 middle confluent (the third forming an elongate projection 

 towards hind-margin), — the sixth and seventh widely dis- 

 joined from the rest, and forming a stria in a line with, and 

 almost touching, that closing cell ; two submarginal rows of 

 spots, — the inner linear a little below costa, but thence of 

 large quadrate spots (the second touching fifth of row beyond 

 middle), — the outer of rounded spots ; a black edging line. 

 Hind-wing : at base a spot {iiot a stripe), followed by a 

 transverse row of four spots ; other markings very much as 



