■often coiilluput. with the transverse row beyond it, in one or both wings).* 

 The variety is plentiful on the hills at Wynberg, and I have also a specimen 

 from the Caledon Division. 



Local : numerous where it occurs. Open, sandy country generally. 



September (m) — January (b). 



This, the largest of the South African Lyceenrc, is not unlike L. Arion, 

 Linn., and is conspicuous when flying. It is easily taken, having the low 

 flight of the tail-less group of the Genus, 



Cape Town. Genadendal (G. Hettarsch). Mossel Bay. 

 Graham's Town (H. J. Atherstone). Butterworth and Bashee 

 River, KafFraria (J. H Bowker). Natal (R. C. Jones, — 

 D5hne).— ColL Tri. et Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Port Natal. Congro. Sierra Leone.— Coll. Brit, Mus. 



D.— Hind-wing" without appendage. 



149. Lycaena Asopus. 



Lycaena Asopus, Hpfr., Monatsherichte d. Konigl. Akad, 



\d. Wissensch. zu Berlin, 1855, p. 61'2. 



„ ,, Hjifr., in Peters Reiae nach Mass., — 



[Ins., p. 410, pi. 26, f. 13, 14, 15. 



? . Lyca?na Kama, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., 



[I, p. 403. 

 Exp. 11 lin. — 1 in. 



? . Pale greyish-brown, shot from bases with bright-blue. 

 Fore-iviny : blue occupies discoidal cell, extending on inner- 

 margin to beyond middle ; along hind-margin a row of very 

 indistinct, whitish-edged, dusky marks. Hind-wing : blue 

 extending through cell, covering median nervules ; crossing 

 the latter is a macular, whitish fascia, reaching to second 

 subcostal nervule ; along hind-margin a row of white annulets, 

 of which one (between second and third median nervules) 

 encloses a black spot. Under-side. — Pale brownish-grey; 

 in both wings an imperfect white annulet, enclosing a space 

 slightly darker than ground-colour, closes cell ; a row of 

 brownish, white-edged, confluent spots beyond middle (in 

 fore-wing from costa to submedian nervure) ; a submarginal 

 row of confluent, brownish lunules, white-edged interiorly 

 and exteriorly (between the row of spots and that of lunules 

 a whitish space, more conspicuous in hind-wing) ; followed 

 by a row of indistinct dark spots. Hind-wing : a transverse 

 row of four white-ringed black spots near base ; between 



* An example from the Caledon Division is beautifully intermediate in 

 colouring aud marking between the ? a of the darker and lighter variations. 



