76 Mr. Roland Trimen on some New 



conspicuous development of its discal white band, and the 

 irregular obsolescence or failure of many of the ordinary 

 markings. 



Estcourt, in Natal, remains the only known locality to 

 me of this species, which v/as discovered by Mr. C. W. 

 Morrison, and sent (5 ^ ^ and a ^) by him for my deter- 

 mination in 1888. Mr. Morrison wrote that he took about 

 a dozen examples ; and two more captured in the same 

 locality were presented to me more recently by Mr. (I N. 

 Barker, with a note that they were found about grassy 

 spots. 



Lycena dolorosa. Trim. (Plate V, figs. 18, 13«.) 

 Lycxna dolorosa, Trim., S.-Afr. Butt., ii, p. 41 (1887). 



In tlie $ the violaceous of the upper-side is of a rather 

 sombre tone, and in the ^ it is much reduced in area being 

 very broadly bordered with fuscous — especially in the fore- 

 wing ; and the under-side is also of a duller brownish-grey 

 than usual, with the ordinary markings scarcely darker 

 than its ground-colour and inconspicuously whitish-edged. 

 These features characterize the typical specimens described 

 by me (/. c.) from Kaffraria and Natal ; but as regards the 

 under-side, examples recently taken by Mr. Feltham at 

 Delagoa Bay and (one out of three) at Johannesburg, differ 

 markedly, having not only a much paler ground-colour, but 

 all the white markings very distinct and sharply defined, 

 especially in the hind-wing. The figures here given 

 delineate a typical $ from Estcourt, Natal, taken by Mr. J. 

 M. Hutchinson, and a $ of the variation just noted from 

 Delagoa Bay. 



Mr. Feltham writes : — " I first found this butterfly on 

 the Umveloosi River, about 20 miles up from the mouth 

 at Louren(^o Marques, on a patch of hard gravelly land 

 forming a low elevation at some distance from the river- 

 bank. In flight it resembles L. lysimon, being weak but 

 rather persistent on the wing, and keeping always just 

 above the ground. It was quite local, — the entire area on 

 which I found it was about 100 yards square. 



" Its extremely local habit is further shown by the fact 

 that, although I had been collecting at Johannesburg since 

 1893, I never found this species there until after my return 

 from Delagoa Bay in 1903, when I fell in with it on a 

 very circumscribed area on the grassy ledges of the hills 



