42 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



broader, more acute than those of outer row, which form more or less 

 incomplete rings with a whitish line immediately before hind-margin ; 

 spot between first and second median nervules, on hind-margin, con- 

 spicuous, marked externally with brilliant greenish-silvery, and bounded 

 inwardly by a yellow lunule ; usually the traces of a similar imperfect 

 spot at anal angle. 



$ Violaceous paler, duller, restricted to a siiffusion from bases, over 

 celhdar, inner-marginal, and lower-discal areas ; hronmish-fuscous border 

 of fore-ioing very broad, esixcially afically ; that of hind-uiing also very 

 broad, costcdly and apically. Fore-iving : a linear fuscous terminal disco- 

 cellular mark. Hind-wing : hind-marginal spots better marked, incon- 

 spicuously ringed with dingy- whitish ; spot between first and second 

 median nervules inwardly bounded by a very dull yellow lunule. 

 Under side. — As in ^, but the whitish edgings of the markings 

 better defined. 



Although so much larger and darker an insect, this species shows distinct 

 alliance to L. llessajnis, Godt., in the character of the under-side markings. 

 Only six males and a single female have come under my notice, — all from the 

 eastern side of South Africa, and four of them from the upper districts of 

 Natal. Of the habits of this butterfly I have no information ; it is probably 

 inconspicuous on the wing. 



Localities of Lycccna dolorosa. 



I. South Africa. 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Bmolier). 



E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. Estcourt {J. M. Hutchinson). Biggarsberg 

 {J. H. Boivlrr). Blue Bank near the Drakensberg (TF. 

 Morcmt). 



F. Zululand. — Napoleon Valley (/. H. Bou'Tier). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefsti'oom District {T. Ayres). 



138. (20.) Lycsena Messapus, (Godart). 



^ Polyommatus Messapus, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 682, n. 205 (1819). 

 Pohjommatus Sebar/adis, Guer., Lefvr. Voy. Abyss., vi. p. 385, pi. 11, ff. 



7,8(1847).' 

 ^ Lyc(e7ia Acca, Westw., Gen. D. Lep., pi. Ixxvi. f. i (1852). 

 (J 5 LyccBna Messapus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 254, n. 155 (1866). 



Exp. al, {$) 8-1 1 1 lin. ; (?) 9 J lin. — i in. 



^ Blue-violaceous, ivith a narroiu blackish hind-margined border ; 

 cilia greyish, whitish externally. Hind-wing : a hind-marginal black 

 spot between second and first median nervules (sometimes nearly obso- 

 lete), usually inwardly edged by an orange lunule ; no tail. Under 

 SIDE. — P(de brownish-grey ; in each wing, — a streak closing cell (in 

 fore-wing blackish, in hind-wing of the ground-colour) whitish-edged 

 on both sides, — a row of white-ringed spots beyond middle (in fore- 



