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cell) arc forrugiuous-i'cd or fuscous-ferruginous, and tlic third (on 

 inner margin) is fuscous. 



$ Dull fuscous ; a violaceous 'patch (variable in size) from near 

 base to beyond middle, sometimes cxtendinrj over loioer part of discoidal 

 ceil, in fore-ioing ; hind-iving with two submarginal rows of white lunules, 

 of lohich the inner is usually somewhat suffused inwardly, and some- 

 times enlarged into a disced whitish space ; cdl lower half of hind-wing shot 

 ivith violaceous. Fore-wing : a terminal disco-cellular blackish striola ; 

 in some examples, close to hind-margin, between second median ner- 

 vule and submedian nervuro, a whitish streak tinged with violaceous, 

 followed by a similar line of great tenuity ; violaceous patch rarely 

 touches any part of inner margin. Hind-iving : terminal disco-cellular 

 blackish striola as in fore-wing, but less distinct ; on disc, between 

 second subcostal and origia of second median nervule, a short, blackish 

 macular stria (very conspicuous in specimens with a more or less 

 whitish discal area) ; upper of two hind-marginal spots, between second 

 and first median nervules, large, black, with a conspicuous orange- 

 yellow lunule bounding it inwardly ; a clearly-defined white hind-mar- 

 ginal line, immediately succeeded by a black one, from anal angle as 

 far as second subcostal nervule, where the outer submarginal white 

 lunular row also terminates. Under side. — Much paler than in $ ; 

 markings similar, but their lohite edges much more developed, those beyond 

 discal stria (which is comparatively darhcr than in $) combining suf- 

 fusedly, particularly in hind-wing, into a white submarginal band. 

 Hind-wing : hind-marginal spangled spots larger than in ^. 



Gerstacker (ojj. cit.), while admitting the difficulty he had expe- 

 rienced, in common with myself and other lepidopterists, in determin- 

 ing what Godart's Uinolus really is, refers this species to Eniolus, 

 mihi, which = Z. Liodcs, Hevvits., described below. The $ figured by 

 him, however, differs from my insects as well as from Godart's descrip- 

 tion in possessing a sub-basal row of three conspicuous round white- 

 ringed spots in the hind-wing. Godart's Emolus (as more fully explained 

 under L. Liodes) is in all probability identical with L. bcngalensis, 

 Moore, the type of the genus Lyeccnesthcs. 



I have examined tlie type of L. Lemnos, Hewits., a male fi*om Delagoa 

 Bay, and do not find that it can be separated as a species. The only dif- 

 ferences from the $ Sylvanus that it presents are, on the upper side, a 

 rather paler, more glistening purple, and in tlie hind-wing a sliort white 

 (instead of indistinct wliitisli) line between the black hind-marginal and short 

 preceding lines at anal angle ; and, on the under side, rather brighter red in 

 the upper and middle spots of the sub-basal transverse row. 



The late Mr. E. C. Buxton was the iirst to discover this Lycccnestlies as 

 South- African, having sent me a pair taken by himself in some part of Natal 

 in 1873. From D'lJrban and Pinetown, during tlie years 1878 to 18 84, 

 Colonel Bowker has forwarded nine of each sex, taken at different times of 

 the year. Tlie best locality noted by lum was the Park at D' Urban, where 

 he found many specimens on -the wing during the last three diiys of October 

 1879. 



