species of South African butterflies. 127 
well as the little but apparently constant character of 
the oblique position and elongation of the third spot in 
the discal series on the under side of the fore wings. The 
species does not closely approximate to any South African 
form, but may provisionally follow L. Letsea, although 
in the latter both sexes are dull greyish brown on the 
upper side. 
In length of wing L. procera reminds one of the 
European L. Alcon, W. V., but the two species are 
totally different in other respects. 
A solitary o of this Lycena was acquired by the South 
African Museum in 1879, in a collection made in the 
Transvaal by Mr. T. Ayres; and another example of the 
same sex subsequently reached me from Estcourt, Natal, 
where it had been taken by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson. 
Quite recently (in August, 1892), Mr. Hutchinson sent 
three more males anda female, captured in the same 
locality, and has thus enabled me to define the species 
sufficiently. 
Hab. Estcourt, Natal (J. M. Hutchinson) ; Potchef- 
stroom District, Transvaal (7’. Ayres). 
Lycena Osiris, Hopft. 
3 Lycena Osiris, Hopff., Monatsb. Preuss. Ak. 
Wissensch., 1855, p. 642, n. 21. 
Q. Hap. al. 1 in. 13—4} lin. 
Fuscous, with a limited but bright violaceous blue median 
space in fore wing, and a faint gloss of the same tint over the 
inferior half of hind wing. Fore wing: Blue extends from near 
base to beyond middle, covering median nervure and a considerable 
length of its three nervules, but not more than inferior half of 
discoidal cell, and extending along inner margin to scarcely beyond 
middle, so as to leave a very broad, costal, apical, and hind- 
marginal fuscous border ; a terminal disco-cellular narrow fuscous 
transverse mark, the lower part of which is rather conspicuous on 
the blue; cilia grey, mixed with whitish, becoming white at pos- 
terior angle. Hind wing: Blue occupying much the same position 
as in fore wing, but faintly extending nearer to hind margin ; costal 
border as far as 2nd subcostal nervule unbrokenly fuscous to apex, 
below 2nd subcostal nervule, an inner submarginal row of sagitti- 
form, and an outer one of lunular more or less distinct white 
marks; in the inner row, the two marks between 2nd median 
nervule and submedian nervure are usually obsolete or obsolescent ; 
