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amples ending just above first median nervule, where it is slightly 

 curved inward, — in the third with a faint geminate additional spot 

 below first median nervule ; submarginal lunulate row macular, very 

 indistinct. Hind-wing : three small, faintly whitish-ringed spots in 

 sub-basal row', of which the first and third are black, the second (in 

 discoidal cell) more or less tinged with ochrey-yellow ; in discal row 

 second spot quite separate from first and third, — largest spots are 

 third and fourth, — seventh spot nearer hind-margin than sixth or 

 eighth; submarginal lunulate row more distinct than in fore-wing, 

 with more or less apparent traces of two rows of whitish thin lunules 

 immediately preceding and following it respectively ; hind-marginal 

 spot as on upper side, but very much smaller, and with the yellow 

 lunule very thin and indistinct ; a second similar but very imperfect 

 spot at anal angle. 



Of this fine Lyca'ua, remarkable by the dull-violaceous of its upper side 

 and the hoary-grey of its under side, I have seen only three examples, viz., 

 two taken by Mr. W. Morant on 21st September 1870, in the north-west of 

 Natal, and another captured subsequently in the Transvaal by Mi\ T. Ayres. 

 The $ is still unknown to me. There is no very near congener that I am 

 aware of; but the species most resembling II)jpopolia are L. Niobe and L. 

 Tantalus, Trim., both smaller, and on the under side darker forms. 



Localities of Lycmna hypopolia. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Blue Bank, near Drakensberg (IF. Morant). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District (T. Ayres). 



130. (12.) Lycaena Cissus, (Godart). 



c^ $ Polijtnnniatm Cixsus, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 683, n. 210 (1819). 

 $ Agriades Cissus, Geyer, Forts. Hiibner Zutr. Samml. Exot. Schmett., 



p. 7, n. 206, fF. 811-812 (1837). 

 ^ 9 Lyccena Catharina, Trim., Trans. Eut. Soc, Loud., 31'd Ser. i. p. 



281 (1862). 

 $ 9 LyccRna Cissus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 252, n. 153 (1866). 



Uxj). al, ($) I in. 2I-5 lin. ; ($) i in. 21-5! lin. 



$ Bull violaccous-Uuc ; costa and hind-margin narrowly hordered 

 with grcyish-hrown in both wings. Hind-wing : on hind-margin, 

 between third median nervule and anal angle, from one to four 

 bright-orange lunules, the largest between second and first median 

 nervules, and with a round black spot touching its outer edge ; ?io 

 tail. Cilia whitish-grey. Under side. — Whitish grey; ocelliform 

 spots blackish or black, white-ringed ; in loth wings a white-edged, 

 blackish streak closing cell ; a sinuate row of conspicuous ocelli 

 beyond middle (those in hind-wing smaller and fainter than those in 

 fore -wing) ; a submarginal row of ill-defined, fuscous, whitish-bordered 



