38 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Victoria County, D'Urban (/. H. Bowlcer). 

 h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). Mooi River 

 ( W. Movant). 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay (the late Colonel H. Tower). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District (7'. Ap7-€s). 



134. (16.) Lycsena Tantalus, S2). nov. 



Uxp.al, {$) I in. 4-$^ Hn. 



Dull 2Mle-violaccous ; a narrow hroivnish^fuscoiis hind-marginal bor- 

 der, — ill hind-wing rather wider, indenting violaceous letiveen nervules ; 

 cilia dingij-ivliitisli, uniform. Fore-wing : terminal disco-cellular fus- 

 cous mark linear, not very distinct. Hind-iving : costa bordered with 

 fuscous-grey as far as subcostal nervure and its first nervule ; no hind- 

 marginal spot, or only the faintest trace of one ; no tail. Under side. 

 • — Pale or ivhitish-grey, sometimes ivith a faint brotvnish tinge ; all the 

 mai'kings linear or much attemiated ; in each tving a linear disco-cellular 

 terminal marking, a discal row of dark spots, a sichnarginal regular 

 lunulated dark streak, and a hind-mai'ginal series of very indistinct 

 dark spots ; o?i hind-marginal edge a series of very smcdl dark spots, 

 adjacent to which the cilia are cdso dark. Forc-ioing : disco-cellular 

 mark and discal row black ; in the latter the third spot is obliquely 

 placed, its lower end inclining outward, and the fifth (between first 

 and second median nervules) is before the rest ; submarginal lunulate 

 streak blackish on both sides, edged faintly and suffusedly with whitish, 

 and regularly interrupted by nervules ; disco-cellular mark and discal 

 row (except first and last spots, which are black) dull-brown ; in the 

 latter the brown spots are sublunulate, the second spot being separate, 

 and the sixth and eighth nearer base than the fifth and seventh spots ; 

 submarginal lunulate streak also brown, its component lunules larger 

 than in fore-wing, and the first and second of them separate both from 

 each other and from the rest. 



^ Pale shining-llue not violaceous — duller and less developed in 

 hind- wing, — witli hroad didl fuscous horders. Fore-win g : border of 

 about even width throughout, from base to apex, and from apex to 

 posterior angle ; terminal disco-cellular lunule veiy much broader and 

 darker than in ^. Hind-wing : blue only thinly covers lower area 

 from base to beyond middle, leaving a very broad costal fuscous border, 

 and a moderately broad hind marginal one ; in the latter a series of 

 blue spots, of which that between first and second median nervules is 

 large and conspicuous, but the rest are very small, indistinct, and lunu- 

 late. Under side. — As in $, but the markings more sharply defined. 



The ^ of this species on the upper side is intermediate in tint, &c., 

 bet;veen the c^ s of Hypoiwlia, mihi, and Niohe, mihi, but is rather nearer to 



