86 SOUTII-AFEICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



This Lyccena is closely related to L. Tlicophrastus (Fab.), a native 

 of North and West Africa, as well as of India and Ceylon, but readily 

 distinguished by the greater size and blackness of the under-side mark- 

 ings, — the spots being rounder and more distinctly separate, especially 

 those of inner-submargiual row, which in Tliccqilirastus are thin, sub- 

 lunulate, and partly united. On the upper side the ^ Syharis is bluer, 

 with the hind-marginal border wider and in the hind-wing traversed 

 by a white line, while the $ has the basal blue much duller and smaller 

 in extent. These differences also well serve to distinguish S/jharis from 

 L. Balkanica, Frey. ( = Psittaciis, Herr.-SchaefF.), a native of Turkey 

 and West Asia, in which the under-side markings are thinner and more 

 inclined to be linear than they are in Tlicophrastns, and the upper 

 side of the $ has scarcely a trace of whitish on the discs. 



I met with only a single ^ of this very beautiful species, at Klipdrift 

 (now Barkly), on the Vaal River, on i8th Sej^tember 1872 ; it was fluttering 

 about low plants, and at length settled on the ground. It appears to be 

 widely distributed, and not uncommon in the interior districts, but is not 

 known to me to have occui-red in the Cape Colony proper, or to have been 

 found within forty miles of the coast. 



Mr. A. G. Butlei', in noting the occurrence of Sijharis on the Atbara, 

 Soudan {Ajin. and May. Nat. Hid., December 1S76, p. 4S2), writes — "There 

 is a cj of this species no larger than L. Barbene, Trim." 



Localities of L>/cana Si/haris. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Ca^ie Colony. 



c. Griqualand West. — Klipdrift, Vaal Eiver. 



C. Orange Free State. — Between the Rhcnoster and Vaal Rivers (IF. 



3Iora)it). 



D. Kallraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (/. //. Bou-Iccr). 



E. Natal. 



b. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. 31. Hutchinson). Rorke's Drift, 

 Ladysmith, and Biggarsberg (J. H. Bowlier). 



F. Zululand.— Napoleon Valley (/. H. Bowker). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques (Mrs. Monte iro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potcliefstroom District (T. Ayres). Marico and Lim- 

 popo Rivers {F. C. Selous). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. AVestern Coast. — Damaraland (J. A. BcII). 



b. Eastern Coa.st. — " Querimba." — Hopffer. Zambesi (Bev. H. 



Bowie//), 

 bi. Eastern Central Interior. — Tauwani River (F. C. Selous). 



B. North Tropical. 



61. Eastern Interior. — "Atbara River" [Soudan]. — A. G. Butler. 



Section G. — Under side white ; markings chiefly dull yellow- 

 ochreous with fuscous edges, but partly fuscous in fore-wing ; longi- 

 tudinal basal stripes of fore-wing much less distinct than in Section 



