36 SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



along liiucl-margin tlie edging white line unites with, an inner row 

 of white lunules to enclose a series of dark-brown spots, — the spot 

 between second and first median nervules being, as in $, black, with 

 an inward-bounding orange lunule. Under side. — As in ^. 



This is a very isolated species, not resembling closely any congener 

 known to me. It is strikingly distinguished by the white apex of the 

 fore-wings in the ^ , forcibly contrasting with the dark-brown ground- 

 colour, and in both sexes by the whiteness of the under side and its very 

 small spots. The pattern and character of the under-side markings perhaps 

 more nearly resemble those of the untailed Z. Messapus, Godt., and Mahal- 

 lolcocena, Wallengr., than those of any other species. On the upper side the 

 9 Hipi^ocraUs is in pattern and colouring somethmg like the $ s of the much 

 larger Asopus, Hopffer, and Johates, Hopffer. 



The first example known to me as South-African was taken in Zululand 

 by the late Colonel H. Tower in 1866. All the others I have seen — thirteen 

 examples — were captured by Colonel Bowker on the coast of Natal, chiefly 

 in the years 1S79 and 18S0, the paired sexes being secured on 30th May 

 1880. Concerning these latter specimens, he wrote that the two were at 

 rest on a creeper in the Park at D'Urban, and that it was the white tips of 

 the foi-e-wings of the male which attracted his attention. The species was 

 found by the same observer very numerovisly on the edge of the bush near 

 the mouth of the Umlaas River on the 8th June. 



A $ specimen from Sherboro Island, near Sierra Leone, in the collection 

 of the British Museum, does not differ from southern examples except in 

 its slightly larger size. 



Localities of Lyccena Hippocrates. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Mouth of Umlaazi, D'Urban, and Pinetown 

 (J". H. Bowlder). 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel II. Tower). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques [Mrs. Monteiro). 



II. Other Afx"ican Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast.—" Angola."— W. F. Ivirby, Cat. Hewits. Coll. 

 hh. Eastern Islands. — " Madagascar." — Oberthlir. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Sherboro Island, near Sierra Leone (C. S. 



Salmin). — Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — "Abyssinia : Shoa {Antinori).^^ — Oberthiir. 



133. (15.) Lycaena Niobe, Trim en. 



$ $ Lyccv7ia Niobe, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser. i p. 282 

 (1862); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 253, n. 154, pi. 4, f. 10 [$]. 



Rvp. al, Q) I in. 0^-4 lin. ; ($) i in. o|-6 lin. 



^ Dull cupreous-violaceous ; base narrowly purplish, cmd hind-margin 

 rather widely bordered with reddish-hroivn in both wiiigs ; spotless ; cilia 

 brownish in fore-iving, but white at apex, in Mnd-iving broivnish, with 



