species of South African butterflies. 135 
mens near Estcourt, in Natal, on the 1st November, 1889, 
and each of whom kindly sent me an example. Only 
males were observed and captured ; they are noted by 
both captors as flying round, settling upon, and chasing 
each other about a tree known as “wild cabbage,” at the 
summit of a lofty hill. . 
I have the pleasure of associating with this butterfly 
the name of Mr. Millar, of D’Urban, an experienced 
Observer of Lepidoptera, who since 1887 has rendered 
me most valuable assistance in working out the South 
African species. 
Hab. Natal, Estcourt (A. D. Millar and C. W. Mor- 
Tison). 
Lycenesthes minima, n. sp. (Pl. VIIL., fig. 10 (s). 
Exp. al. (f), 103 lin.; (2), 10—11 lin. 
S. Brown, with a slight violaceous cupreous surface-gloss ; 
bases rather widely tinged with fuscous; a terminal hind-mar- 
ginal fuscous line ; cilia of fore wing brown, with a white space 
below apex, and another above posterior angle; of hind wing 
white, with narrow brown nervular interruptions. Hind wing: 
On hind margin, between 1st and 2nd median nervules, a good- 
sized but not sharply defined round fuscous spot. UNDER sIDE.— 
Brownish grey; ordinary markings (terminal disco-cellular, 
discal, submarginal, and hind-marginal) not conspicuously de- 
jined (especially towards hind margins), scarcely darker than 
ground colour, white-edged on each side, and broadly whitish 
mesially. Fore wing: Discal series of markings highly irregular, 
forming four pairs of contiguous coalescent spots, of which the 1st 
and 8rd pairs are about equidistant from base, the 2nd rather nearer 
to hind margin, and the 4th nearest to base (being in a transverse 
line with terminal disco-cellular spot) ; usual series of submarginal 
lunules and hind-marginal spots indistinctly marked. Hind wing : 
A subbasal transverse series of four small, black, white-ringed 
spots, of which the 4th (on inner margin) is minute; discal series 
highly irregular, composed of eight spots, contiguous but separate 
(except the 5th and 6th, which are coalescent), of which the Ist 
and 8th are nearer, and the 8rd and 4th further, from base than 
the rest; submarginal and hind-marginal markings indistinct, with 
the exception of two rounded black spots, bounded anteriorly by a 
yellow lunule—a large one between 1st and 2nd median nervules, 
and a small one (geminate, and with a few metallic bluish silvery 
seales) at anal angle, 
