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contributed a series to the National Collection. The $ 

 here figured is one of the Estcourt exauijjles taken by Mr. 

 Barker, and the $ an example captured by Mr R. M. 

 Lightfoot at Port Nolleth, Namaqualand, Cape Colony, in 

 August 1890. 



Lyc^na bowkeri, Trim. (Plate VI, figs. 17, 17«.) 



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

 i 351 ; S.-Afr. Butt., ii, p. 88 (1887). 



This very distinct ally of L. thcspis (Linn.) seems to be 

 only known from a limited area in Natal. It was dis- 

 covered by the late Col. J. H. Bowker in 1881, near the 

 "halfway house" between Durban and Maritzburg over- 

 looking the Inchanga valley. In the Barker collection 

 presented to me in 1898 there were three ^ $ and two 

 ^ ^, taken at Karkloof, some 20 miles to the N.W. of 

 Maritzburg, and the species was noted by the donor as 

 occurring about grass on the outskirts of woods. The $ 

 and $ figured are from Mr. Barker's series. 



Lyc^na natalensis, Trim. (Plate VI, figs. 18, 18a.) 

 Lycmna natalensis, Trim., S.-Afr. Butt., ii, p. 77 (1887).* 



To the various charactei'S which I have particularized 

 (/. c.) as distinguishing this species from both L. moriqua, 

 Wallengr., and L.jcsons, Guer., may be added the presence 

 in both sexes of a conspicuous oblique superior white 

 streak near the extremity of the club of the antennse — the 

 actual tip itself being dull-reddish. 



Except for a $ ticketed Delagoa Bay in the British 

 Museum (Hewitson collection), and another from Etshowe, 

 Zululand, collected by the late Mr. T. Vachell, I have seen 

 no examples but those from Natal, Estcourt and Bushman's 

 River furnishing the majority of the known specimens. 



* Mr. G. A. Butler (Proc. Zoo], Soc. Loud., 1896, p. 119) identified 

 tills species with his L. sigillatvs (Ann. and Mag. N. H., 4lh Ser., 

 XVIII, p. 48.3. 1876) from Abyssinia ; but on examining his types 

 (a (J and a $ ) of the latter in the British Museum, I found them to 

 iyi Identical with the allied but quite distinct L. mori(p.ta, Wallengr. 

 Independent support of this determination of mine is afi'orded by the 

 fact that, In the National Collection, the types of sigillatus, But]., 

 are associated v. i.h moriqua as synonymous. 



