64 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



marginal, small, indistinct, blackish spot ; no tail. Oilla sliining 

 greyish. Under side. — Dull ydlowisli-grcij ; in hoth ivings, the 

 ordinary transverse markings scarcely darker than the ground-colour, 

 and faintly edged with whitish on each side, and the liiud-marginal 

 ones more or less indistinct ; in kind-iving, the disced macular hand 

 immediately succeeded hy a suffused whitish one. Fore-wing : a median 

 and a terminal disco-cellular striola ; discal band very regular, even, 

 and continuous from costa to submedian nervure. Hind-vnng : discal 

 macular band very regular, unbroken, only slightly curved inferiorly ; 

 a very indistinct white-edged basal spot, macular sub-basal band, and 

 terminal disco-cellular striola ; hind-marginal lunules less indistinct than 

 in fore-wing, more acute ; the spot between first and second median 

 nervules black and distinct ; whitish submarginal band rather broad. 



$ Darker, tlie violaceous very restricted (especially in hind-wing), 

 sometimes ohsolete or barely visible. Under side. — As in (^, but all the 

 markings rather better defined. 



This obscure little species on the upper side much resembles the $ 

 L. Lysimon, Hiibn., but is widely difiTerent on the under side, which is 

 not unlike that of L. Bcvtiea, although on so small a scale. Its only 

 near ally known to me is L. Hoqicasa, Trim., which has an almost 

 identical under side, but has much violaceous-blue on the upper side, 

 especially in the male. 



Colonel Bowker discovered this butterfly in January 1S65, near the 

 River Tsomo in Kaffraria Proper, and noted it as very numerous during that 

 and the following mouths in reedy, swampy spots near water. He met with 

 the species again in Basutoland, in March 1869, frequenting similar stations, 

 and found it very numerous on the flowers of a species of mint. Mrs. 

 Barber has sent a specimen from the Stormbergen, and Dr. Kannemeyer 

 several examples from Burghersdorp m the Cape Colony. So dull and small 

 an insect is easily passed over by collectors, and I suspect that its range in 

 the eastern tracts is moi'e general and widely spread than at present 

 appears. 



Localities of Lyecvna Tsomo. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts.- — Stormbergen {M. E. Barber). Burghei-sdorp, 



Albert District (/). R. Kannemeyer). 

 d. Basutoland. — Head of Orange River (Drakensberg), Tantjies 

 Berg, and Thaba Bosigo (/. H. Boivl-er). 

 D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (/. H. Bowlier). 



151. (33.) Lycaena Noquasa, sp. nov. 



Exp. al., {$) 10- 1 I lin. ; (?) I i lin. 



$ Bright pale violaceous-blue ; fore-wing rather broadly, hind-wing 

 narrouiy bordered ivitJi fuscous-grey ; cilia greyish, pcder outivardly. 



