62 SOUTII-AFEICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



streaked with fine white irregular transverse lines to beyond the middle. 

 There are no tails on the hind-wings. The markings are very similar on the 

 whole to those of Lyccenestlies Liodes, and the colour of the upper side is also 

 very like that in the species named. In the possession of a short fascia on 

 the under side of the fore-wing crossing the middle of the discoidal cell, 

 Sklu'la resembles Ba'tica, Linn., and Notohia, Tsomo, and Noquasa, mihi. 

 In both sexes of Sicliela, the first median nervule of the fore-wing is strongly 

 curved downward near its origin. 



Most of Colonel Bowker's specimens were taken in January, on a hill 

 close to the Umgeni Railway Station near D'Urban. He noted that the 

 insect settled on bare twigs. In October 1879 Colonel Bowker sent me a 

 worn 9 taken by him, towards the end of the month, at Port Elizabeth. 

 Both sexes vary greatly in size. 



Localities of Lyccvna Sicliela. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth (/. II. BoirLrr). 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban and Pinetown (/. II. Boich'r). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenco Marques [Mrs. Monteiro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Crocodile (Limpopo) River (//. Barber). 



149. (3L) Lycsena Notobia, Trimen. 

 Plate VIIL, ff. 6 ( c? ), 6a. ( ? ). 

 $ , $ Lijrxcna Nvtohia, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1S6S, p. 91. 



Ex2J. ciL, Q) 1 1 lin.— I in. 2^ lin. ; ($) i in. — i in. 2^ lin. 



$ Sliining opalescent-violaceous, rather imle ; a very narrow hind- 

 marginal fuscous-hrovm border ; cilia hroad, fuscous-broivn, with narrow 

 white, inter-nervular ioitcrrujytions ivcll-defined and coyisjncicous in fore- 

 wing, hut rather suffused and ill-defined in hind-tving. Hind-ioing : 

 a small very faint hind-marginal fuscous spot between first and second 

 median nervules. No tail. Under side. — Brownish-grey, with a yellow- 

 ish tinge ; in each %oing the terminal disco-cellular striola, and discal suh- 

 onacular fascia., except for their darker margins, are of the ground-colour, 

 hut edged rather conspicuously with wliitc. Forc-iving : across middle 

 of discoidal cell a white-edged broad striola like that at extremity ; 

 the latter with its outer white edging prolonged as far as second or 

 first median nervule; macular discal band broad (except just at its 

 beo-inning on costal edge), regular, curved superiorly, extending to 

 submedian nervure ; hind-marginal series of small acute white lunules 

 rather ill-defined, succeeded by tlie usual whitish and fuscous hind- 

 marginal bounding lines. Hind-wing : discal band more macular than 

 in fore-wdng, narrower, more irregular, almost interrupted on second 

 subcostal and first median nervules, extending from costa to inner- 

 margin ; a shorter, similar, sub-basal band crossing middle of discoidal 



