5-4 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



reached me from widely-tlibtant localities, but I do not know of any place 

 where it occurs in any abundance. Specimens sent from Burghersdorp, in 

 the north-east of the Cape Colony, by Dr. Kannemeyer, are darker than usual 

 on the upper side, and have the under-side pattern very strongly marked. 



Localities of Lijcccna TrocJtilus. 



I. South Africa. 

 B, Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts, — Robertson. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth (J. L. Fry). New Year's 

 River, Albany District {Mrs. Barber). Burghersdorp {D. R. 

 Kannemeyer). 



c. Griqualand West. — Vaal River (J. II. Boivker). 



d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. BowJcer). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Basliee River (/. //. Bu ulcer). 



E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Great Noodsberg. Biggarsberg and Roike's 

 Drift (J. H. Boirl-er). 



F. Zululand. — Napoleon Yalley {J. H. Bowler). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenco Marques {Airs. Monteiro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom {2\ Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A, South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland : "River Kui.sip {WaJdbertj)." — 

 Wallengren. 



B, North Tropical. 



hi. Eastern Interior. — White Nile. — Coll. Ilewitson in Brit. Mus, 



C, Extra-Tropical North Africa. — Egypt. — Coll. Ilewitson in Brit. 



Mus. 



III. Asia. 



A. Southern Region. — " Asia Minor and North Persia." — Staudinger. 



IV. Europe. — "Tiu'key." — Doubleday, Ilerrich-Schaffer, &c. "Balkan 



Mountains. ' ' — Staudin£:er. 



145. (27.) Lyc33na Metophis, Wallengren. 



Lyccena Aletoj'Ms, Wallengr., Wien. Ent. Monatschr., iS6o, p. 37, n. 17 ; 

 and K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Fcirhandl., 1872, p. 48, n. 21.1 



Uxp. al., ($) 7-7f lin. ; ($) 9-9 J lin. 



^ Didl-hroivn, jJalcr and tinged luith greyish hasally ; cilia while, in 

 fore-wing very hroadly, in hind-iving extremely narroivly, interrupted 

 with dark-hrown at extremities of nervules ; hinel-iving tailless. Fore- 

 ■ivinf) : browu interruptions of cilia at extremities of first and second 

 median nervules exceedingly broad, almost uniting. HineUwing : a 

 hind-marginal series of four small internervular blackish spots, of 



1 Through the kind assistance of Prof. Chr. Aurivillius, of tlie Royal Swedish Museum 

 in Stockhohn, I was enabled to obtain a careful coloured drawing of the type of this species, 

 and so more satisfactorily to determine the distinctness of Metophis from my more recently 

 named close ally, L. Barbcrce.^ 



