104 SOUTH- AFRICA^T BUTTERFLIES. 



va'i-uely occupies the lower half of discoidal cell, and covers space 

 between median nervure and its first nervulo and inner-margin to near 

 posterior angle ; an indistinct dark-grey lunular mark at extremity of 

 discoidal cell. Hind-ivinj : the suffusion covers middle field of wing 

 from base, leaving the costa and apical, liind-marginal, and inner- 

 marginal border free ; an indistinct dark lunule at extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell ; a little beyond it, a curved macular streak between second 

 subcostal and second median nervules ; a thin black line on hind-mar- 

 ginal edge ; within it a thin white line, most apparent near anal 

 ano-le, itself immediately preceded by four to six thin whitish lunules, 

 which join with it to isolate spots of the ground-colour ; these spots 

 are darker near anal angle, that between second and first median ner- 

 vules being black, bounded interiorly by a well-marked orange lunule. 

 Cilia in both wings whitish. Under side. — Soft 2^ale-grcy ; tlic mark- 

 ings slightly darker, hut distinctly edged on loth sides with whitish ; in 

 each unng a roughly 8 -shaped mark at extremity of discoidal cell, a 

 discal inferiorly-incurved row of more or less confluent similar imper- 

 fect rings ; a submarginal row of lunules ; and a thin hind-marginal 

 whitish edging line. Fore-iving : basal area quite spotless as far as 

 extremity of cell. Hind-wing : near base, just below costal nervure, 

 a small but distinct round black spot in a whitish ring ; the hind- 

 marginal black spot between second and first median nervules, and a 

 smaller similar spot close to anal angle, conspicuously spangled with a 

 few greenish-silvery scales, and interiorly bounded Ijy an orange 

 lunule ; between these two spots a few greenish-silvery scales. 



$ Similar to male, hut ground colour 2^aler and duller, while the 

 hlue suffusion is considerahly hrighter iu hue. Hind-iving : blue be- 

 comino- very faint on disc, which bears a transverse row of rather 

 indistinct Avhitish lunules. Under side. — As in male. 



This Lycwnesthes is in several respects intermediate between L. 

 Liodes, Hew. (the Emolus of my Rliop. Afr. Aust., not the true Fmolus 

 of Godart), and Z. Otacilia, mihi. It is at once to be distinguished, 

 however, from both species by the singularly pale and dull hue of the 

 bluish suffusion on its upper surface, which in the male contrasts 

 remarkably with the universal dark purple of L. Liodes, and the well- 

 defined bright violaceous of L. Otacilia. In size L. livida is larger 

 than Z. Liodes, and very much larger than Z. Otacilia. The female 

 has, on the upper side of the fore-wing, none of the fuscous spots so 

 strongly marked in the female Z. Liodes. The under side markings 

 are in both sexes less irregular, and not so dark as in Z. Liodes, and 

 the ground-colour has none of the yellowish-brown tinge observable on 

 the under side of Z. Otacilia. 



I first noticed this butterfly in Mrs. Barber's collection in Febiaiary 

 1870, and made a description of the two female specimens which the collec- 

 tion contained, under the impression that they would probably prove to be 

 the female of L. Otacilia, mihi. These examples were taken at Highlands, 



