LYCyENID^. 121 



tinguislied, except by one or two slight cliaracters that would escape a 

 cursory comparison. 



A single $ specimen was sent me from Pinetown, Natal, by the late Dr. 

 J. E. Seaman, and a (^ by Mr. Walter Morant, towards the end of 1869. Dr. 

 Seaman noted the $ as having been taken in July, " at an opening in the 

 bush ; " and Mr. Morant described the (^ as occurring in June " on small trees 

 by the waterside," and further observed, with reference to the $ sent by Dr. 

 Seaman (which he did not recognise as of the same species as the (^ sent by 

 himself), " This is very scarce ; I have a single specimen in my collection, 

 taken o?^ a low tree near water" (see note on ^J above) " about two years ago, 

 since which time I have seen but one other.'' The late Mr. E. C. Buxton 

 sent me the photograph of a $ , taken by him in the Amaswazi country. 



Since 1874 Colonel Bowker has forwarded a 5 from the mouth of the Kei 

 River, and five ^ s and thi-ee $ s from Natal, the latter taken chiefly in the 

 neighbourhood of Pinetown. The first-mentioned specimen was taken in 

 March 1875 ; the Natalian examples at intervals from 1879 to January 1885.^ 

 In habits H. Buxtoni does not appear to present any peculiarities, but it is 

 evidently very much rarer than its nearest congener, H. PJiilippus. 



Localities of Ilypolyca^na Buxtoni. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Kei River Mouth (west bank) (/. //. Bowker). 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Isipingo. Pinetown (also J. E. Seaman and 

 W. Morant) ; and Inanda (/. H. Boioker). 

 G. Swaziland. — " Usutu River." — E. C. Buxton. 



181. (4.) Hypolycsena Hirundo, (Wallengren). 



Thecia Hirimdo, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1857, p. 35, n. 4. 

 Ambli/podia Hmmdo, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 230, n. 133, pi. 4, 



f. II [?] (1866). 

 Hypotyccena Hiru7ido, Hewits., 111. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 12 (1869). 



JiJxp. cd., 9 lin. — I in. i lin. 



Dark ash-grey, irroratcd from hases ivith very pale hluish-grcy ; anal 

 angle of hind- wing produced and lobed, and ending in a long twisted, 

 Mack, broadly white-edged and fringed tail, on submedian nervure. 

 Fore-tving : on hind-margin, close to posterior angle, a black, 

 indistinctly white -ringed spot. Hind - wing : paler nearer inner 

 margin ; along hind-margin a row of dark white-ringed spots, very 

 indistinct, excepting the three last, which are black and well-marked 

 (that on anal-angular lobe being the largest) ; before this, a row of 

 indistinct whitish lunules. Cilia of fore-wing grey, white at anal 

 angle ; of hind- wing wholly white. Under side. — Whitish-grey ; 

 with white-hordcrcd yclloiv-ochrcous striw : common to both wings — a 



^'The fine pair taken at this last date was presented by Colonel Bowker to the British 

 Museum. 



