LYCiENID^. 79 



Localities of Lycaiia NatcdciiHi^. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Umgeni Railway Station (/. //. Bou-lier). 



b. Upper Districts. — Maritzburg {S. A. Windham). Estcourt and 



Bushman's River (J. M. Hutcltinsnn). Hermansburg. 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Coll. Ilewitson in Rrit. Mus. 



Section F. — Under side white ; markings very conspicuous and 

 sharply defined, black ; hind-marginal series (and sometimes also sub- 

 marginal series) of spots very distinct and regular ; discal markings of 

 fore-wing more or less confluent into separate unequal portions ; in 

 fore-wing a strongly-marked basi-costal longitudinal stripe and a shorter 

 curved one beneath it ; basal area of hind-wing with several elongate 

 spots. 



L. Hintza, Trim, [tailed], Calice, Hopff. [tailed], Melcvna, Trim, 

 [tailed], Griqua, Trim, [tailed], Si/haris, Hopff. [tailed]. 



159. (41.) Lycaena Hintza, Trimen. 



Plate VIII. ff. i {<^), la ( ? ). 



$ Lycceyia Rosimon, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Yet.-Akad. Handl., 1S57; Lep. 



Rhop. Caffr., p. 38. 

 $ ? Lyccena Hint::a, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., ii. p. 177 



(1864); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 243, n. 144 (1866). 



Eo22'>- (d., Q) II lin. — i in. i lin. ; (^) I I lin. — i in. li Ii 



m. 



^ Shining violet-blue; on discs, the under-side darJc spots are indis- 

 tinctly represented, v)ith {in some cases) a few intermediate whitish ones ; 

 a 7iarroio hind-marginal Uachish edging. Hind-wi7ig : the usual hind- 

 marginal blackish spot. Under side. — White, with hlaelc stricc and 

 spots : in each wing, a stria closing cell (in fore-wing from costa and 

 broad, in hind-wing short, thin, and angulated) ; an irregular, much- 

 interrupted, transverse row of conspicuous spots beyond middle ; two 

 submarginal rows of spots, the inner of elongate sublinear, the outer of 

 very small rounded spots ; and a black edging line. Fore-wing : sub- 

 costal stripe continued on costa to end of cell ; below it, a broad upward- 

 curving stria from submedian next base ; last two spots of transverse 

 row confluent. Hind-wing : short subcostal stria divided into two spots ; 

 beyond it a curved transverse row of four spots ; third spot of transverse 

 row of eight far beyond the rest, almost touching second spot of inner 

 submarginal row ; last two spots of outer row large, faintly bluish- 

 silvery-dotted. 



$ Wliite with fuscous borders ; shot with violaccous-Uuish from bases ; 

 the black markings of itncler side suffusedly marked. Fore-wing : costa 

 and hind-margin clouded with fuscous, on the latter obliterating the 



