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tiuct Avliitisli acute lunular marks along hind-margin, becoming obso- 

 lete towards costa, but in the other two the outer portion only of the 

 row is indicated by the very faintest whitish scaling. Under side. — 

 All the markings better defined, and with wider lohife edgings than in 

 the $. Fore-7cing : discal row composed of six spots in the largest 

 example ; of six on one side and five on the other in the smallest ; 

 and of five in the third. 



In both sexes, when there are more than four spots in the discal 

 row of the fore- wings, the fifth spot is smaller, and (as well as the 

 sixth, when present) placed slightly before the line of the others. 

 The row is but very slightly curved, commencing at a little distance 

 from the costa, immediately above the first discoidal nervule. 



Mr. Bowker found this dull-tinted species commonly about the waggon- 

 roads near Rouxville and the Orange River in January i86g, and also in 

 similar situations near Eland's Berg and Klip Spruit in the following month. 

 He noted that it frequented small bushy plants, and, when roused, kept long 

 on the wing. 



Localities of Lycccna Letsca. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



d. Basutoland. — Klip Spruit {J. H. Bowker). 



C. Orange Free State. — Near Orange River, Rouxville, and Eland's 



Berg (/. H. Bowker). 



137. (19.) Lycsena dolorosa, sp. nov. 



\m. 



Exp. al, (^) I in. — i in. 2 lin. ; ($) i in. 2 



$ Pcde-violaeeous ; fore-wing ivith a narrow, even, fuscous hind- 

 margined border, hind-wing ivith only a linear black edging and a series 

 of indistinct fuscous spots ; cilia greyish, mixed with fuscous in fore-wing, 

 and narrowly interrupted ivith fuscous at ends of nervules in hind-iving. 

 Hind-ioiiig : spot between first and second median nervules black, 

 larger than the other hind-marginal spots ; a very thin interrupted 

 whitish line between the series of spots and hind-marginal black 

 edging ; costa bordered with greyish-brown as far as first subcostal 

 nervule, and at apex as far as second ; no tail. Under side. — Didl 

 brownish-grey; the markings scarcely darker than the ground-colour, 

 inconspicuously but distinctly edged with whitish on each side ; in each 

 wing, a terminal sub-reniform disco-cellular lunule, a slightly sinuated 

 macular discal row, and two submarginal rows of whitish lunules, 

 indistinct in fore- wing. Hind-tving : three small blackish spots in 

 sub-basal row ; first and last spots of discal row small, round, and 

 black, and separate from the rest, — sixth spot almost touching lower 

 extremity of disco-cellular lunule ; lunules of inner submarginal row 



