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and submarginal stria two black bluish- or greenish-silvery speckled 

 spots, — one between second and first median nervules, circled (except 

 externally) with orange-yellow, the other on and chiefly above sub- 

 median nervure internally edged with orange-yellow ; costa at base 

 edged with white ; a sub-basal transverse row of four dark white- 

 ringed spots (the third of which is brown, and the rest are black) from 

 costal nervure to inner margin. 



$ Dull-fuscous ; bases slightly tinged for some distance with slaty- 

 grey ; discs paler, in some instances tvhitish or lohite in fore-wing ; two 

 suhmarginal roivs of ivhite lumdcs in hind-iving. Fore-icing : near pos- 

 terior angle, between second median nervule and submedian nervure, 

 four whitish marks, of which the two inner are broad and more or less 

 suffused (sometimes merged in discal whitish), the two outer narrow. 

 Hind-wing : lunules of inner submarginal row wider than those of 

 outer row, and somewhat suffused ; lunules of outer row thin, acute, — • 

 that between second and first median nervules immediately succeeded 

 by a sub-trigonate black spot ; a very distinct pure-white hind-mar- 

 ginal line immediately followed by a black one. Cilia with white 

 parts more developed than in ^. Under side. — Markings arranged 

 as in ^, but the ivhite edges of nearly all the stiHce — especially the sub- 

 marginal ones and those near inner-margin of fore-wing — widened and 

 more or less confuoit, so that the greyish-brown ground-colour is con- 

 siderably reduced. 



Cramer's figure represents the under side, and, though rough and enlarged, 

 gives the markings with tolerable fidelity; but the ground colour is much 

 darker than in any examples I have seen, — darker, indeed, than in the ,$ , 

 although from the notice in the text (p. i6o), that " le dessus des ailes est 

 d'un blanc blenatre, les bords en sont d'un [brim] clair," it seems clear that 

 the specimen figured (a West- African one) was a female. 



The upper side of the ^ in this species is the same as that of L. Sylvamts, 

 Dru., and not very much darker than in L. Liodes, Hewits. ; but that of the ^ 

 is quite peculiar, owing to the absence of any violaceous suffusion, and to the 

 white markings existing near the posterior angle of the fore-wings. On the 

 under side the curious striation in the basal part of the fore wings distin- 

 guishes Larydas from all the known South-African species, and shows its 

 alliance to L. Lysides and numerous other West- African species figured by 

 Mr. Hewitsou. 



The first South-African example of Larydas I met with was a worn ^ , 

 taken at D'Urban, Natal, in 1870 by the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken. From 1879 

 to 1 88 1, however, Colonel Bowker forwarded 'a good many specimens of 

 both sexes captured in the same locality, including two pairs found in coitu 

 on the 17th January 1879 ^^'^^^ -S^h March 1881 respectively. He noted 

 nothing peculiar in the habits of the butterfly. 



Localities of Zyccvncsthes Larydas. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {M. J. M'Kcn and J. H. Bowker). 

 Pinetown (./. H. Boivker). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenr-o Marques [Mrs. Moideiro). 



