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visually extending (less thickly) as far as hind-margin ; white lunules 

 of outer submarginal row thinner and less conspicuous ; terminal 

 disco-cellular lunule usually indistinct. Under side. — As in $. 



This species is so intimately allied to L. Parsimon, Fab., that I should 

 not have separated it except for the extraordinary difference of colouring in the 

 (^ s ; the species named having the upper side of an uniform brownish-grey 

 without a trace of blue, while L. ^;ia^/7'c7'a has it all light violaceous-blue 

 except along the extreme costal and hind-marginal borders. The longer tail 

 on the hind-wings is, however, characteristic of Patricia. A $ from Zululand 

 is of a purer, more shining blue upper side than usual, but does not present any 

 other differences. A $ from Estcourt, Natal, is darker than visual above, and 

 the bhie is less violaceous, occupies a smaller area in the fore-wings, and is 

 almost obsolete in the hind- wings. In a (J and 5 from the Transvaal, the 

 under side is darker than usual, and the submarginal markings are vuiusually 

 faint; the $ is also very obscure on the upper side, with the blue much 

 reduced in both wings, and with an indistinct short discal row of very small 

 fuscous spots. One of the two ^ s kindly sent to me as typical Aster is, 

 Wallengr., by Mr. Chr. Aurivillius from the State Mviseum at Stockholm, 

 belonged distinctly to this form, only differing in a broader terminal, disco- 

 cellular lunvile on the vipper side of the f ore- wings. ^ 



In the Transvaal, Mr. W. Movant took this Lycania early in October 

 1870; and Wallengren (loc. cit.) mentions that Mr. N. Person took, in the 

 same country, during that month, what is described as the $ Parsiuwu, but 

 appears to be the ^ Patricia. 



Localities of Zycccna j^cUricia. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage (S. D. Bairstoiv). 



c. Griqualand West. — Klipdrift, Vaal River (J. II. Bowlier). 



d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. Bowlcer). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (/. //. Boicker). 



E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt {J. M. Hutchinson). 



F. Zululand.— Napoleon Valley (J. H. Bowker). 



K, Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District {T. Ay res). Pretoria {IF. 

 Movant). 



123. (5.) Lycaena glauca, sp. nov. 



Lyccena Aster is, y^SiWeugr. \_$ , part], K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857, 

 p. 40, n. 12. 



Exjj. al., {$) I in. 7-9 lin. ; {%) i in. 6I-10 lin. 



^ Glittering silvery-hliie, ivith a slight greenish gloss (in tint inter- 

 mediate between upper sides of L. Corydon, Scop., and Daphnis, W. 

 V.) ; a very narrow fuscous hind-7nargi7ial edging, linear in hind- 



^ It is possible that Lycctna Negus, Felder, of which I only know the figures (Nos. i and 

 2) on t. XXXV. vol. ii. of the Lepidoptera of the Reise der Novara, may be the ? of L. patricia. 

 It is, however, smaller than usual, and the blue suffusion is represented as stopping short of 

 the outer disc of the fore-wings. The under side is quite like that of Patricia, except 

 that the third (inner-marginal) spot of the sub-basal row on the hind-wings is not given. 

 The locality noted for it is Bogos, in North-Eastern Africa, 



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