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blackish, distinct ; blue suffusion filling cell and extending thinly 

 below and beyond it over median nervules. Under side. — Markings 

 generally larger than in $, especially the disco-cellular lunules, the 

 hind-marginal spots, and in fore-wing the discal fascia. Fore-iving : a 

 faint brownish suffusion basally. 



In a singular aherration of the $ taken in Natal by Colonel Bowker, 

 the upper side has no white, but only a very slightly paler discal cloud 

 on the dusky-brownish general ground-colour ; and with the exception 

 of the indistinct terminal disco-cellular lunules, there are no darlc mark- 

 ings. On the under side the same lunules are conspicuous, but there 

 are no discal fascia or sjwts ; the submarginal brown streak is, however, 

 greatly widened and suffused, and there is also a brown suffusion along 

 the hind-margin itself, so that only an irregular lunulate white streak 

 remains between it and the submarginal streak. In the fore-wing the 

 basal brown suffusion is much darker than usual ; and in the hind- 

 wing the short basal streak is confluent with the first spot of the 

 sub-basal row, of which row the third and fourth spots are wholly 

 wanting. 



This species is nearly allied to L. Moriqua, Wallengr., but con- 

 siderably larger. On the upper side the colouring of the $ is very 

 like that of the $ Moriqua, but the spots of the under side are repre- 

 sented more apparently, and the much more slender hind-marginal 

 edging line is like that of the ^ Jesous, Guer. ; while the colouring 

 and pattern of the $ are widely different from those of the $ Moriqua 

 and % Jesous, — closely resembling, indeed, the upper side of the $ 

 Hintza, Trim. On the under side both sexes approximate Moriqua, 

 the chief distinctions being the whiter ground generally, the different 

 colour, form, and extent of the discal fascia of the fore-wing, and, in 

 the same wing, the great prolongation costally of the longitudinal 

 stripe ; and, in the hind-wing, the totally different respective sizes and 

 positions of the black spots of the discal row. The fore-wings are 

 unusually long, not produced apically, but rather prominent subapi- 

 cally ; and the hind-wings are also longer and with a straighter costa 

 than in the allied species. In this respect, and in a much less degree 

 as regards some of the principal under-side markings, Natcdensis ex- 

 hibits some indications of alliance to the beautiful West- African L. Isis 

 (Drury), in which the ^ has white discs on the upper side. 



I captured a (J of this butterfly at Hermansburg, Natal, in March 1867, 

 and regarded it as possibly a variety of L. Moriqua. In 1869 a $ was sent 

 from Natal, without any note of locality, by the late Mr. M. J. jNI'Ken ; and in 

 187 I I noted two $ s and a ? ticketed " Port Natal " in the British Museum 

 Collection. The more recent receipt of fine specimens of both sexes from 

 ]Mr. J. ]\I. Hutchinson, of Estcoui-t, Natal, has enabled me satisfactorily to 

 desci-ibe the insect ; but I have no notes as to its special haunts or habits. 

 A few examples from other parts of Natal have also reached me ; and in 1881 

 I examined a $ from Delagoa Bay in the Hewitson Collection.] 



