i6 SOUTH-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



separated into spots in fore-wing, and wanting the eiglitli (inner- 

 marginal) spot in hind-wing. Hi7id-wing : the lower (anal-angular) of 

 two hind-marginal spots obsolete, or nearly so, but some of the greenish- 

 silvery scales and part of the orange-yellow lunule present. 



The under side in both sexes, but especially in the $, is some- 

 times very obscurely marked, the white markings being faint, and the 

 three sub-basal spots and first spot of discal row in the hind-wing 

 scarcely darker than the rest. 



As Mr. A. G. Butler has remarked {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1875, 

 p. 397), Osiri.i!, Hopff., appears to be the Afiucan representative of the Indian 

 and Javan Cnejus, Fab. {Suppl. Ent. Syst., p. 430, 179S). On comparing speci- 

 mens from Natal and Delagoa Bay with the Javan 5 in the Ilorsfield Col- 

 lection in the British Museum, I could detect little difference, except that 

 the under-side markings of the Osiris 5 s were all rather wider and less 

 constricted. 



Hopffer founded the species on a single $ from Querimba. In February 

 and March 1S67 I met with a few examples of both sexes on the coast of 

 Natal. Colonel Bowker in June 1880 sent me the paired sexes taken at 

 D'Urban. Both sexes of this pair were remarkably obscure in the undei*- 

 side mai'kings, but the $ more so than the 1^ . The sjiecimens that I took 

 frequented long grass in sheltered spots. 



Localities of Lycama Osiris. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Avoca and Pinetown 

 {ir. Morant). 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {the late Colonel H. Tower). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Hewitson Coll., Brit. Mus. 



K. Transvaal. — Pretoria (IF. Morant). Lydenburg District (7". Ayres). 



II. Other African Eegions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



h. East Coast. — " Querimba." — Hopffer. 



120. (2.) Lycaena Asopus, Hopffer. 



^ 9 Lyccena Asopus, Hopff., " Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch., 

 1855, p. 642, n. 22;" and Peters' Pteise Mossamb., Ins., p. 410, 

 pi. xxvi. ff. 13-15 (1862). 

 $ Lyccena Kama, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., Ser. iii., i., p. 403 



'(1862). 

 9 Lyccena Asopus, Trim., Bhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 249, n. 149 (1S66). 



Exp. al., {$) I in. — i in. 2^ lin. ; ($) i in. 1-3 lin. 



^ Falc hrownish-grey, rather variable in depth of tint, slightly paler 

 discally ; on liind-marginal edge a fuscous line ; cilia whitish-grey ; hincl- 

 loing with tivo siibmarginal roivs of vjhite lunnlcs ; no tail. Fore-tving : 

 a faint, dusky, narrow, terminal disco-cellular lunule ; near posterior 

 angle some very indistinct traces of a hind-marginal series of whitish 



