74 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



hi. Eastern Interior. — Tauwani and Mokloutse Rivers {F. C. 



Seluus). 

 B. North Tropical. 



hi. Eastern Interior. — "Abyssinia (Lefehvre).'' — Gu^rin. White 



Nile.— Coll, Brit. Mus. 



156. (38.) Lycsena Macalenga, Trimeu. 



(J $ Lycoena Macalenga, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1S70, p. 364, 

 pi. vi. ff. 5, 6. 



Ex}-). al, {$) io\ — 1 1 J lin. ; (?) 9I — lof lin. 



^ Pale,silhj, violaceous-blue, with ivide pale sandy-broum innk-iingcd 

 horders ; bases tinged with deep purplish blue ; cilia white throiighout. 

 Fore-iving : blue space separate from basal dark blue, occupyiug inner 

 margin as far as posterior angle, but leaving a hind-marginal border 

 widening to the apex, and a costal border so greatly widening to the 

 basal dark-blue as almost to touch the inner margin ; inner edge of the 

 discal blue strongly defined by a dcnticidate raised line of paler blue. 

 Hind-iving : borders somewhat similar, but that of the hind-margin of 

 even width ; the inner edge of discal blue similarly defined about the 

 origin of the subcostal nervules ; two indistinct fuscous hind-marginal 

 S]3ots between the second median nervule and anal angle, the superior 

 one the larger, and traces of other dark spots along rest of hind-margin. 

 Under side. — Much resembling that of Z. Jcsous. Fore-wing : the 

 black and ferruginous subcostal stripe ending before the extremity of 

 the cell; no spot in the cell ; the short streak closing the cell straighter 

 and narrower than in Jesous ; the submacular transverse white-edged 

 fascia commencing farther from the costa and from the base, not so 

 oblique, curved inwardly rather than outwardly, its terminal separate 

 spot much closer to, and almost immediately below, the closing streak 

 of cell ; submarginal lunulate streak more denticulate, obsolete infe- 

 riorly ; no hind-marginal black dots, but indistinct brownish marks ; 

 between the end of the subcostal stripe and the beginning of the sub- 

 macular transverse fascia, a longitudinal row of three black white-7'inged 

 dots, of which the middle one is the largest. Hind-wing : basal stripe 

 much thinner ; third black spot of sub-basal row as large as the first 

 and second, the fourth indistinct (the reverse being the case in Jesous) ; 

 second spot of discal fascia elongate and oblique, instead of round ; 

 hind-marginal markings differing as in fore-wing ; the two hind- 

 marginal black spots next anal angle without any bluish scaling. 



$ Pale, glistening sandy-brou^n, with a faint pinliish gloss, but with- 

 out the bluish bases,^ whitish discs, or terminal cellular spots so well 

 marked in Jcsous. Ilind-iving : two fuscous spots more apparent than 

 in the $, or in Jcsous %. Underside. — As in ^, but the ground-colour 



^ A ? since received from BurghersJorp, Cape Colony, has the bases suffused with dark 

 greyish-blue. 



