82 SOUTH-AiaUCAX LUTTERFLIES. 



middle of liind-margiu, aud iutermediate small wliitisli ones ; in Lind- 

 wing white, with dull-fuscous narrow interruptions on nervules. 



The sexes do not differ except in size, and in the $'s having tlio 

 black markings narrower and the white field proportionally wider on 

 both upper and under sides. 



It was not until July 1879, when Colonel Bowker sent me the paired 

 sexes from Pinetown, Natal, that I identified the true Calice of Hopffer, 

 having pi'eviously taken for this species the very nearly allied L. Mekena, 

 mihi. 



The absence of any blue in either sex, and the width and blackness of 

 the dark borders on the upper side, with the very different arrangement of 

 the discal transverse series of spots on the under side, readily distinguish 

 Calice from Hintza, Trim. 



The sjiecies appears to be rarer than Mekena, and the only examples I 

 have received were taken in Natal. Neither Colonel Bowker nor Mr. 

 Hutchinson noted any particulars of the butterfly's special haunts or habits. 



Localities of Lycccna Calice. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown (/. H. BowTier). 

 h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — " Damaraland (De Vi/hler)." — Aurivillius. 



"Angola (/. J. Mrmteiro)." — H. Druce. 



b. Eastern Coast. — "Querimba." — Hopffei-. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Senegal." — Hopffer. 



161. (43.) Lycaena Melaena, sj). nov. 



Lycccna Calice, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. jx 244. n. 145 (1866). 



Exp. al, {$) 10^ — I l^ lin. ; ($) 10 lin. — i in. 



White, vnth hlack margins and spots. Forc-ioing : base and costa 

 broadly and inner margin narrowly suffused with blackish ; a large, 

 elongate, black, transverse mark from inner margin near base ; a spot 

 closing cell ; and several spots of an irregular row beyond middle, 

 joining broad hind-marginal black, and isolating a quadrate white spot 

 not far from apex. Hincl-vnng : a blackish suffusion at base, along 

 costa (leaving part of its edge white), and along hind-margin ; beyond 

 middle, a much-curved row of quadrate black spots (usually more or 

 less confluent with hind-marginal blackish), widely interrupted between 

 second subcostal and discoidal nervules ; several indistinct black spots 

 at base ; in hind-marginal blackish a row of indistinct black spots (of 

 which the two next anal angle are sometimes faintly bluish-silvery- 

 dotted), occasionally whitish-ringed, always followed by a thin white 

 line, indistinct towards costa. . Cilia o^ fore-wing blackish, with a white 



