Ayres almost simultcaneously sent me specimens from the Potchefstroom Dis- 

 trict ; and fine examples from Natal and Zululand have more recently been 

 contributed by Mr. J. M. Hvitchinson .and Colonel Bowker. The species 

 extends into the Tropical Regions, occurring in Damaraland on the west, and 

 centrally in the Bamangvvato country. Mr. Morant noted the capture of a 



5 in the Free State at the end of December, and Colonel Bowker that of a 



^ on the Natal coast on 27 th April. 



Localities of Lyccena Mahallokocena. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. U. Bowker). 



C. Orange Free State. — Vaal River ( W, Morcmt). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Isipingo, D'Urban, and Pmetown (/. H. 



ISoivker). 

 h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). Between Tuegla 



and Mooi Rivers, Rorke's Drift, and Biggarsberg (/. H. 



Boicher). Colenso (IF. Morant). 



F. Zululand. — Isandhlwana and Napoleon Yalley {/. H. Bowker). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques {Mrs. Moiiteiro). 

 K.Transvaal. — Potchefstroom (TF. Morant Sii\d J'. Ayres). Pretoria 



( W. Morant). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Damaraland (Z)m Vylder)." — Aurivillies. 

 &i. Eastern Interior. — Bamangwato Country (H. Barber). Tau- 

 wani River (F, C. Seloics). 



140. (22.) Lycaena Lysimon, (Hiibner). 



^ Papilio Lysimon, Hlibn., Samml. Europ. Schmett., ff. 534-35 (1798 ?). 



„ „ "Ochs., Schmett. Europ., i. 2, p. 24 (1808)." 



$, $ Polyommatus Lysimon, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 701, n. 240 



(1819). 

 (^ , 9 Lyccena Lysimon, Herr.-Schff., Schmett. Eur., i. p. 118, t. 5, ff. 28, 



29 (1843). 

 ^ , 9 Lyccena Knysna, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd. Ser., i. p. 282 



(1862); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 255, n. 156 (i866j. 



Exp. al., Q) 9-10^ liu. ; ($) 10^ lin.— i in. oj lin. 



^ Dull-violet, ivith a silky gloss ; hind-margin of both wings rather 

 widely bordered ivith blackish ; cilia broad, tvhitish ; no tail on hind- 

 wing. Fore-ioing : costa very narrowly edged with a white line. 

 Under side. — Whitish-grey ; ocelli blackish, whitish-ringed ; in both 

 icings, a sinuate row of ocelli strongly curved superiorly, beyond 

 middle, a whitish-edged fuscous streak closing discoidal cell, a distinct 

 ocellus in cell (sometimes an indistinct ocellus below it), two sub- 

 marginal rows of pale-fuscous, indistinctly whitish-edged, lunular 

 spots, — and a thin blackish edging line, interiorly faintly whitish- 



