102 SOUTTI-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Lyccenesthes Liodes. 



I. South Africa, 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Robertson. Knysna. ' 



b. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. King William's To\\ti (TF. 



D^ Urban and J. II. Bowker). Windvogelberg, Queenstown 

 District {Dr. Datho). Murraysburg (/. /. Muskett). Burghers- 

 dorp {D. R. Kannemeijer). 



D. KalYraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. //. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Aijres). 



171. (5.) Lycsenestlies Otacilia, (Trimen). 

 Plate VII., fig. 8(3). 

 (^ Lycccna Otacilia, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., i86S, p. 90. 



Uxp. al, Q) II liu. — I in.; ($) i in. — i in. o^ liu. 



^ Shining 2^<^i^e-violaccous. Forc-ioing : apical area, as far as end 

 of discoidal cell and third median nervule, hrown with a cupreous tinge ; 

 short, rather narrow borders of the same colouring, extending on costa 

 to base and on hind-margin to posterior angle. Hind-wing : a 

 cupreous-brown border, wide along costa and at apex, narrow along 

 hind-margin to anal angle ; a rather well-defined hind-marginal black 

 spot between second and first median nervules ; below the latter 

 nervule the trace of a similar spot. Cilia whitish, with faint dusky 

 nervular interruptions on lower part of hind-wing. Under side. — 

 Pale hroivnisli-grey ; in each wing, tlie ordinary terminal disco-celhdar 

 spot, and discal and suhnarginal transverse suhinacular hands, slightly 

 darker than ground-colour and rather conspicuously white-edged on each 

 side. Fore-wing : no markings near base ; discal band strongly curved 

 inward below cell. Hind-unng : a sub-basal transverse row of three 

 round blackish white-ringed spots, — that above cell conspicuous, the 

 other two (respectively in cell and below it) rather faintly marked ; 

 discal band so strongly curved as half to encircle terminal disco-cellular 

 spot, and with part of its outer white edging confluent with inner 

 white edging of submarginal lunulated row ; hind-marginal spot 

 inwardly edged by an orange-yellow lunule, — as is also a minute spot 

 close to anal angle ; an indistinct hind-marginal whitish line forming 

 annulets with the lunulated outer white edging of submarginal row. 



^ Palc-hroiiiiish, with a suheupreous lustre; a very faint hasal 

 violaceous suffusion, rather hcttcr j;rowo2mcef? iii hind-wing; bases 

 narroivly hlachish. Hind-unng : in one example traces of a hind- 

 marginal row of whitish annulets like that on under side ; hind- 

 marginal black spot as in $. Under side. — As in $, but rather 

 paler. 



