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158. (-iO.) Lycsena Natalensis, sp. nov. 



Exp. al., Q) I iu. — I ill. 2 liu. ; ($) I in. 1-2! lin. 



$ Violaccous-bluc with a slight pinkish tinge (very nearly the same 

 tint as in Moriqua, Wallengr.), the disced spots of the under side indis- 

 tinctly imxeptiUc ; a icell-dcfined black line cdginrj hiTid-margins ; cilia 

 in fore-wing fuscous, except next apex, between tliird and second 

 median nervules, and between first median nervule and submedian 

 nervure, where white replaces the fuscous, — in hind-wing fuscous 

 basally, but white externally throughout. Hind-icing : no tail ; usually 

 an indistinct blackish hiud-marginal spot at anal angle, and sometimes 

 a second, very indistinct one above it. Under side. — White, with 

 brown stripes and streaks and black spots ; in both wings — a long slender 

 brown terminal disco-cellular lunule ; a slightly irregular, submarginal, 

 lunulated, brown, slender streak ; and a hind-marginal row of small 

 spots, mostly black, but a few indistinct and brownish. Fore-wing : a 

 conspicuous longitudinal streak, inferiorhj boodering costal oicrvure, black 

 from base, but becoming brown and suffused towards extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell, whence it borders costa and unites with origin of brown 

 discal fascia ; this fascia broivn, rather broad, sharply defined, slightly 

 obliqiie, emitting a p)romincnt dcntcdion outivard just above tliird median 

 ncrvide, abruptly interrupted on second median nervule, its widely 

 separated lower part (consisting of a large upper spot and very small 

 inferior one) much nearer base than the rest ; a conspicuous rounded 

 black spot in lower part of discoidal cell near extremity ; the fourth 

 and sixth spots in hind-marginal row brownish, obsolescent. Hind- 

 iving : short, basal, sub-transverse black streak, and sub-basal transverse 

 row of four black spots as in Ifooiqua, but more strongly marked ; an 

 extremely irregular and interrupted discal row of very unequal-sized 

 black spots, of which the first and second next costa about middle are 

 large and conspicuous, — the third (a good deal beyond them) minute, 

 — the fourth (still farther beyond) minute or quite obsolete, — the fifth 

 (close to submarginal streak), sixth (considerably nearer base), and 

 eighth (on inner margin about middle) large, — and the seventh very 

 small but usually geminate ; spots of hind-marginal row larger than in 

 fore-wing (especially the first, next costa), only the fourth brownish and 

 obsolescent, the fifth and sixth large, spangled with silvery-blue. 



^ JV7iite, with rather broad fuscous-broivn costcd and hind-margined 

 borders, and fuscous disced submaeular fascia and sp)ots following the 

 pattern of the under side ; shot with violaceous-blue from bases. Fore- 

 wing : terminal disco-cellular lunule much broader, and discal fascia 

 much broader and its lower part less disconnected than on under side 

 of $ ; blue suffusion extending to beyond middle along inner margin 

 and filling discoidal cell. Hind-wing : only the lower larger spots 

 of discal row represented ; two hind-marginal spots next anal angle 



