species of South African butterflies. 125 
half of discoidal cell, and is bounded inferiorly by submedian ner- 
vure ; terminal disco-cellular mark fully twice as broad as in 3; in 
one example faint traces of an almost median series of fuscous 
spots bounding the blue externally. Hind wing: Blue fainter and 
more restricted in width than in fore wing; hind-marginal blackish 
spot much larger and rounder than in 3, and bounded internally 
by a broad dusky orange lunule. Unprr sipge.—As in 3, but 
ground colour slightly browner. 
(Described from eighteen male and three female 
examples). On the upper side the ¢ most resembles the 
3 L. Tantalus, Trim., but is not of so dull a tint,* and 
has interrupted instead of uniform cilia. On the under 
side the 3 differs entirely from Tantalus, coming, onthe . 
whole, closest to L. Caffrarie, Trim., although, in the 
form of the distal white bar of the hind wings, it is 
nearer to the g L. Pephredo, Trim., which is not blue 
above, but dark greyish brown. On the upper side the 
2 Grahami is most like the ¢ Caffrarie, but differs in 
its much darker ground colour, absence of whitish discal 
and hind-marginal lunules, and faint and much reduced 
orange lunule in hind wing. 
This species was first brought to my notice by Mr. U. 
L. Langley Feltham, of Kimberley, who received three 3 
specimens from Mr. Francis Graham, and sent them to 
me in July, 1891, with the information that they had 
been taken at Dordrecht, on the N.E side of Cape Colony, 
by the latter. Since then Mr. Graham, who has most 
zealously and assiduously attended to the butterflies of 
his district, has presented to the South African Museum 
the series of this species above described; and it is in 
recognition of his services to Entomology that I have 
named the insect after him. He notes this Lycena as 
frequenting rough broken ground, and having a rapid, 
restless, and jerky flight, which renders its capture most 
difficult. It is on the wing in December, J anuary, and 
February. 
Hab. Dordrecht, Cape Colony (F. Graham). 
Lycena procera, sp.n. (Pl. VIIL., figs. 3 (3), 4 Gory. 
Exp. al. (3), 1 in. 5—5} lin.; (), lin. 6 lin. 
3. Pale olivaceous blue (close to tint of g L. Betica); fore 
* The colour is that exhibited by the males of the Kuropean 
L. Argiodes (Pall.) and Semiargus, Rott. 
