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just north of the town. This was on 15th and 16th No- 

 vember, and I met with it subsequently in the same locality 

 on December 6th and 13th, and on August 28th and No- 

 vember 16th, 1904." It is the ^ taken on the date last- 

 mamed that agrees on the under-side with the Delagoa 

 Bay examples above mentioned. 



LYCiENA LUClDA, Trim. (Plate V, figs. 14, 14a.) 



Lycmna lucida, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 348 ; 

 and S.-Afr. Butt., ii, p. 47 (1887). 



This member of tlie li/simon-group of the genus is 

 readily recognized by the longitudinal white ray from the 

 extremity of the discoidal cell to near the hind-margin of 

 the hind-wing on the under-side. It is rather remarkably 

 variable in size, the $ ranging from 8^ to 11 lines, and the 

 $ from 8|- to 12^ lines. The $ varies very little in the 

 violaceous of the upper-side which has a slight pink tinge ; 

 but the $ varies very considerably, from a wholly dark- 

 brown upper-side to one with smaller or larger violaceous 

 patches. 



The range of the species in South Africa is very wide, 

 but it has not to my knowledge been met with in the Cape 

 Colony west of Knysna, In the tropical area it has 

 occurred not only in Ovampoland and South Angol.i, but 

 on the eastern side in Nyassaland, German East Africa, 

 and Zanzibar — from which latter locality Mr. P. de la 

 Garde, R.N., showed me a ^ captured by him in August 

 1893. 



Mr. Feltham remarks that Z. lucida is not very common 

 at Johannesburg, frequenting grassy places along the 

 northern slopes of the Witwatersrand line of hills. I 

 agree with him in thinking it probable that so small and 

 inconspicuous a species is in reality much commoner than 

 it apj)ears to be. 



The examples figured are a $ taken at Malvern, Natal, 

 by Mr. C. N. Barker, and a rather small ^ captured at 

 Johannesburg by Mr. Feltham. 



Lyc.ena stellata, Trim. (Plate VF, fig.<. 1.5, 15a.) 



Lycsena stellata, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 

 349 ; S.-Afr. Butt., ii, p. 49 (1887). 



As pointed out by me in 1887 {I. c.) this very small and 



