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tinge ; ^ the palest from Grahamstown and Basutoland ; while those from 

 Kaffraria Proper and ISTatal are intermediate in colour. The ochreons-tinged 

 individuals inhabit Malmesbviry, N. of the Cape Peninsula, and I also took a 

 similar individual in Namaqualand, 



I have met with this butterfly only on the summits and slopes of hills. 

 Though not uncommon, it does not exhibit the gregarious tendency of its 

 ally, L. Asteris. Though an active insect, it very often settles on low shrubs 

 .and herbage, and is easily captured. I have met with it from August to 

 February, but it is prevalent most from October to December. 



Localities of Lycccna Mcthymna. 



South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Simon's Town. Malmesbury. 

 Bain's Kloof. Spectakel, Namaqualand. 



h Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. Uitenhage (»S'. D. Bairstow). 



d. Basutoland. — Maseru {J. H. Boivlier). 



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



E. Natal.— Pinetown (/. //. Bowker). 



128. (10.) Lycsena puncticilia, Trimen. 

 Plate VIII. fig. 4 ( (^ ). 

 Lyrcena jyuncticiUa, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 350. 



Exp. al. I in. — i in. 3^ lin. 



Dark-hroivn, with a slightly brassy surface-gloss ; cilia dark-hroivn, 

 ivith rather small hut very conspicuous p)urc-wMte inter-nervular spots. 

 Hind-iving : in some $ examples, along hind-marginal edge a row of 

 inter-nervular minute white spots, only separated from the white spots 

 of the cilia by the blackish bounding line. Under side. — Dull ashy- 

 hroivn ; ordinary discal row of darker white-edged spots indistinct, or 

 sometimes obsolete, except for the thin internal white edging ; adjoiniiig 

 the conspicuous white spots of cilia is a row of elongate-ovate vjhite rings, 

 usually better marked in fore- wing than in hind-wing. Fore-wing : 

 dark, white-edged disco-cellular lunule broad, usually quite distinct ; 

 spots of discal row confluent into a nearly straight fascia, slightly bent 

 inward on median nervules ; beyond discal row, traces of a row of thin 

 sharply sagittate white marks ; apical white ring of hind-marginal row 

 thicker and more conspicuous than the rest. Hind-wing : first (costal) 

 and last (inner-marginal) spots of discal row distinct, ovate, black, 

 white-ringed ; other spots of row confluent, suff'used, only their internal 

 white edges marked ; a sub-basal transverse row of three circular black 

 spots in thin white rings ; heyond discal row a conspicuous very sharply 

 dentated wliife transverse line, composed of contiguous sagittiform marks; 

 the imperfect hind-marginal ovate ring between second and first 



^ A dwarf male I captured at Wynberg, near Cape Town, expands barely an inch 

 across the win^s. 



