100 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Lyccencsthcs Si/lvanus. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. — D'Urban and Pinetown (/. H. Bowlcer and T. Ayrcs). 

 II. Delagoa Bay. — Louren9o Marques {Mrs. Munteiro). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. "Western Coast. — "Angola." — Kirby, Cat. Ilewits. Coll. 

 h. Eastern Coast. — " Mombas (Kersten)." — Gcrstiicker. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Old Calabar." — Kir))y, op. cit. "Sierra 



Leone. ' ' — Drury . 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — "White Nile." — Kirby, op. cit. 



170. (4.) LycsDnesthes Liodes, Hewitson. 



^ $ Lycoena Emohis, Trim., Ilhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 234, n. 136, pi. 4, 



ff. 8, 9 (1866). 

 (J Lycoenesthcs Liodes, Hewits., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 349. 

 (J Lyccenesthes SicJiela, Hewits., 111. D. Lep., p. 222, n. 12 (1878). 



Uxj). al., Q) I in. 0^-2 lin. ; ($) I in. 1-2J lin. 



^ Glistening dark-violaceous ; a slender llacJc, Idnd-marginal edging 

 line ; cilia whitish. Hind-wing : close to hind-margiu two to three 

 inconspicuous black spots between second median nervule and sub- 

 median nervure ; at extremity of each of these nervures, as ivcll as that 

 of first median, a thin tuft of whitish hairs. Under side. — Brownish- 

 grcy ; in cacli wing — a double dark streak (enclosing one of ground- 

 colour) closing cell, the wliole marking being on both sides white-edged, 

 — a similar fascia, composed of confluent spots, across wing beyond 

 cell, in hind-ioing bi-angulated near inner margin, in fore-wing with 

 the last spot before the rest of the fascia, — two submarginal rows 

 of whitish lunules enclosing a darker space, and a very indistinct 

 interior whitish edging to hind -marginal dark line. Fore-wing : rarely 

 a whitish ring in cell. Ilind-wing : on costa before middle, a white- 

 ringed spot similar to that closing cell ; first and last of three black 

 hind-marginal spots always distinct, greenish- silvery-dusted and in- 

 teriorly orange-lunuled, the second indistinct, silvery-dusted — some- 

 times obsolete. 



$ Pale-greyish, shot luith violaceous-llue from base ; a blackish disco- 

 cellular spot and transverse macidar fascia in each wing ; a blackish 

 hind-marginal border, in hind-wing intersected by a row of whitish 

 lunules. Hind-ioing : hind-marginal white line conspicuous ; hind- 

 marginal spots black, the first orange-lunuled. Under side. — As in 

 ^, but all white edgings broader, conspicuous ; outer edging of trans- 

 verse fascia and inner submarginal row of lunules sometimes suffused 

 and confluent, forming a white band. 



