280 RTIOPALOCERA AFKICiE AllSTRALlS. 



specimens frnni Plettcuberp; Bay, are shaped like nriow-heads, and disliiiclly 

 niaiked. The type fonn is found near Graham's Town. 



I am inclined to think, wi h M. Wallengren, that this species should be 

 held the type of a new Geuus, the elongated and stout palpi, thick and very 

 short antennae, clani'-ily-iuade body, and peculiar markings and colour, 

 conferring upon it a distinctn^'ss of its own, Specimens from Knysua have 

 the anteni 8e much shorter than those of examples fro:n Kaffraiia, and not 

 quite so long as are found in the typical form. 



Waste, sandy places at road-sides, bases of hills, &c. 



Noveniber (e)— February (b). '■October." — W. D'Urban, 



This curious butteifly seems fonder of sand and heat tliat any species 

 with which I am accjuaiuted. At Kuysna, I used frequenily to find speciinens 

 sitting on the heaped-up dust of the roads, and appearing to like it better 

 than any other situation, as they would return alter being disturbed by any 

 passing traveller or waggon. The insect is very difficult to see wlien settled, 

 assimilating as it does so closely to the colour of tlie surface on which it 

 loves to rest. Its flight is very short and not so rapid as that of most 

 species of Zerilis, 



Cape Town. Stellenboscli. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. 

 New Year's River, Albany (H. I. Atherstone). — Coll. Tri. 

 " King William's Town and Izeli." — W. D'Urban, in litt. 

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



Genus LUCI.A? 

 Lucia, Westw. 



Imago. — Palpi long, ascendant, roughly fringed with hair 

 beneath ; antennce short, stout, with a cylindrical rather 

 gradually-formed club. TFings enthe : fore-wings long, with 

 straight costa and convex hind-margin ; hind-wings much 

 rounded, without inner-marginal groove. Legs short and 

 thick, the tibce very densely hairy. 



I have follov/ed Hopffer in referring to the above Genus, 

 which only contains a few Australian species, the veiy curious 

 little butterfly named Delegorguei by Boisduval. In the 

 "Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera" this insect is doubtfully 

 referred to Lyccena, from which it is certainly very distinct. 

 Not having examined the species of Lucia, or Westwood's 

 diagnosis of that Genus, I am necessarily uncertain whether 

 Hopfier is right in the position he has assigned to Delegorguei, 

 and the above generic characters are taken solely from the 

 South African species named. 



174. Lucia (?) Delegorguei. 



Lycaena Delegorguei, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 588. 

 „ (?) Delegorguei, Doubl., Westw., Hewits., Gen. 



[D. Lep. 

 Lucia Delegorguei, Hoptffer, in Peters' Reise nacli Moss., 

 Exp. 10 lin.— 1 in. 2 lin. [p. 41 L 



