30 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



median nervules is often filled with blackish, centred with a few bluish- 

 white scales. 



A single $ varies from the rest in possessing on the upper side of 

 the hind-wing a row of four indistinct, small, whitish spots not far 

 from hind-margin, between costa and third median nervule. 



A close ally of L. Ilcthymna, mihi, but distinguished from it by 

 the following characters, viz. : — (i) The darker upper side, without any 

 reddish tinge; (2) constant absence on upper side of fore-wing of 

 disco-cellular lunule ; (3) darker, more ashy under side, with (4) 

 less distinct and less macular discal row; (5) more elongate and dis- 

 tinctly defined white rings of hind-marginal row ; and (6) in hind- 

 wing, much more conspicuous and acutely dentated white transverse 

 line beyond discal row. 



The only example of this butterfly with which for many years I was 

 acquainted was collected at Genadendal in the Caledon Division, about 1863- 

 1864, and was regarded as a variation of Metlnjmna. In the year 1869 

 (September) I met with another individual flying in company with several of 

 Methymria at Malmesbury, about thirty-five miles northward of Cape Town. 

 It was not imtil September 1879 that, in company with Colonel Bowker, I 

 found the insect common near the village of Malmesbury, and also at Rie- 

 beck's Casteel in the Malmesbury District. We captured about thirty speci- 

 mens, and found them all to agree in the main characters above described. 

 This Lycmia flits about, and frequently settles upon, low shrubby plants on 

 rocky hojy'es and hillsides. On the wing it looks almost black. 



Localities of LycKiia puncticilia. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Malmesbury, Riebeck's Casteel, Malmes- 

 bury District. Genadendal, Caledon District (G. Hettarsch). 



129. (11.) Lycsena hypopolia, sp. nov. 



Exp. al, ($) I in. 6-y lin. 



f Dull pale-violaceous ; a rather narrow brownish-fuscous hind-mar- 

 ginal harder emitting short inter -nervular rays ; cilia dull-ivhite, iiniform. 

 Fore-wing: a rather narrow but distinct terminal disco-cellular fus- 

 cous lunule. Hind-iving: costa broadly bordered with brownish fuscous, 

 wider about apex ; between first and second median nervules a small 

 and narroAV black spot close to hind-margin, inwardly bounded by a 

 suffused pale-yellow lunule, and marked centrally with a few bluish 

 scales; no tail. Undee side. — Hoary grey ; in each wing terminal 

 disco-cellular lumde, discal macidar row {except first and last spots, which 

 are small and hlacTv), and indistinct row of sidimarginal lumdes, dull 

 ochrey-ycllow with whitish edges. Forc-iuing : discal row in two ex- 



