88 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Has a very short tufted tail on first median nervule of liiud-wing, 

 not observable in worn specimens. 



This very distinct and handsome species is well distinguished by 

 its singularly chequered under side, and, as regards the upper side, in 

 the male by the brightness of the uniform blue field, and in the ^ by 

 the discal reproduction in part of the chequered pattern of the under 

 side, chiefly in the fore-wings. The cilia in both sexes are unusually 

 broad and conspicuous, pure-white, strongly and evenly interrupted 

 with black. The female is not at all unlike (escept for the strong 

 blue suffusion on the upper side) Pijrgus in colouring and pattern, and 

 Linnaeus (in the Museum Ludoviccv, tfcc), compares it to the European 

 P. Mcdvoi. 



Tlirspis is tolerably numerous in many parts of the Cape Colony, especially 

 in the South- Western Districts and about Cape Town, but is usually found 

 singly or in pairs. It frequents open ground generally, hovering about low 

 shrubs and plants, and constantly settling ; its flight is short and weak, so 

 that it is very easily captured, I have met with it from the beginning of 

 August until the end of April. For so small a butterfly it is unusually 

 conspicuous on the wing. Boisduval {Voy. de Deleg. V Aft. Aust., p. 588) 

 mentions it as occurring at Poi't Natal, but I have not seen any examples 

 from that neighbourhood. Colonel Bowker did not send this species from 

 either Kaffraria j^roper or Basutoland, nor have I received any examples from 

 the northeim parts of the Cape Colony or from farther in the interior. 



Localities of Lyca:na Tlicsjns. 

 I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Stellenbosch. Triangles 



Station, Worcester District (L. Perinquey). Plettenberg Bay. 



h. Eastern Districts.— Port Elizabeth {\V. S. M. D' Urban and 



J. L. Fry). Grahamstown. Top of Gaika's Kop, Amatola 



Mountains {J. H. BoivJcer). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — " Bay of Port Natal." — Boisduval. 



165. (47.) Lycsena Bowkeri, Trimen. 



^ '^ Lyccjena BoicJieri, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1883, p. 351. 



PJxjj. ah, I in. i|-2^1in. 



$ Silky lilacine-blue ; each wing with a rather large blackish luuular 

 mark closing discoidal cell, and a moderately-wide blackish macular 

 hind-marginal border ; cilia wide, black, conspicuously interrupted with 

 white between nervules. Hind-ioing : the spots composing hind-mar- 

 ginal border more separated than in fore-wing (especially near anal 

 angle), and immediately preceded by contiguous thin whitish lunules. 

 Under side. — Yellowish-white ; each wing with a lunular mark closing 

 discoidal cell, an irregular interrupted discal row of spots, and a sub- 

 marginal I'ow of smaller subquadrate spots, — all pale ochreous-brown, 

 more or less distinctly finely edged internally and externally with 



