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and presented to me by him with the rest of his fine 

 collection of South- African Lepidoptera in 1898. 



Although on the upper-side not unlike the variety of 

 L. niohc, Trim., found in Kaffraria and Natal (/. c, p. 37), 

 on the under-side this species is remarkably different, 

 especially in wanting the transverse whitish band beyond 

 middle of hind-wing, and in presenting a discal series of 

 elongated (not rounded) fuscous spots, with scarcely any 

 indication of whitish edging, and a narrower and much 

 more sharply-defined submarginal fuscous lunulated streak, 

 together with a paler ground-colour, quite hoary-grey in 

 hind-wing. 



Mr. Barker notes this butterfly as frequenting grassy 

 spots on hill-sides on the coast of Natal. 



LyC'ENA ignota. Trim. (Plate V, fig. 11.) 

 Lycmnci ignota, Trim,, S.-Afr. Butt,, ii, p. 39 (1887). 



Both sexes of this obscurely-tinted form were sent from 

 the Potchefstroom and Lydenburg districts of Transvaal in 

 1879 by Mr. T. Ayres ; and besides these (6) examples, 

 I have received Q $ $ and 2 $ $ taken at Estcourt, Natal, 

 in 1893 and 1898, by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson and Mr. C. N. 

 Barker. The dull greyish-brown upper-side is similar to 

 that of L. letsea, Trim. (Trans. Ent, Soc. London, 1870, 

 p. 362, pi. vi, ff 3, 4), but darker, and wanting the 

 yellowish anal-angular lunules in the hind-wing ; while the 

 under-side is characterized by the very imperfect develop- 

 ment of all the ordinary whitish markings. 



Mr. C. N. Barker records that L. igjiota occurs among 

 grass in the " Thorn " country near Estcourt. 



LYCiENA PEPHREDO, Trim. (Plate V, fig. 12.) 



Lycmna pepliredo, Trim., S.-Afr. Butt,, iii, App. p. 389 

 (1889). 



This is another of the duller-coloured Lycxnpa in which 

 both sexes are of an unvaried dark greyish-brown on the 

 upper-side, much like that of L. ignota, Trim., but darker, 

 and without any trace of the ordinary anal-angular spot in 

 the hind-wing. The pure-white cilia constitute a further 

 distinction; and the under-side differs very widely from 

 that of ignota, alike in the ashy-grey ground-tint, in the 



