242 Mr. R. Trimen on some ncic or imperfectly - 



In fliglit and gronnd-loving habits there does not seem 

 to be any noticeable difference between this Zcritis and its 

 immediate congeners. It has probably two broods in the 

 year, as my own and Mr. Lightfoot's specimens were 

 captured in the months of August, September, and October, 

 but Mr. Alston's in April and May. The typical examples 

 from Damaraland were taken by Mr. Eriksson in January. 



Genus Lyc^NA. 



LYCiENA LEROTHODI, n. sp. (Plate XIX, fig, 6.) 

 Exp. ul.(^) 15— 15| lin. ; ( $ ) 15^— 16| lin. 

 Allied to L. letsea, Trim., and L. methyinna, Trim. 



^. Very dark hroimi,hnt loith a decided bronzy gloss; without 

 marking, except (in fore-wing) a very faint transverse terminal disco- 

 cellular fuscous line ; cilia grey generally, but white at and for a 

 little below apex in both wings. Under-side. — Yellounsh-broun ; 

 common to both wings — a terminal disco-cellular sub-reniform dark- 

 brownish whitish-ringed spot ; an irregular discal series of rather 

 small dark whitish-ringed spots ; a submarginal series of dark spots 

 inwardly bounded by white marks (which are strongly lunulate in 

 hind-wing) ; a waved interrupted white line (indistinct in fore-wing) 

 parallel and close to hind-margin ; and cilia basally white but 

 terminally brown throughout. Fore-wmg : basi-inner-marginal area 

 paler and greyer than general surface ; discal series of spots curved 

 inwardly from 3rd to 1st median nervules, but the lowest (6th) 

 spot situated nearer to hind-margin than the 5th. Hind-wing : 

 all markings stronger and better defined than in fore-wing ; a sub- 

 basal transverse row of three very distinct round black white-ringed 

 spots ; two quite similar sj^ots stand respectively first and last of the 

 discal series (quite as in L. methymna), but the other (6) spots of the 

 series are brown and form a curve similar to that shown in fore-wing 

 (without any tendency to become confluent as in Methymna). 



$ . Like the ^ , but with the brown of the upper-side not so dark, 

 and the terminal disco-cellular mark in fore- wing less indistinct. 



This Lycmna differs from L. letsea — a native of the same 

 territory — in its larger size, much darker upper-side, want 

 of anal-angular yellow lunules in the hind-wing, and 

 (on the under-side) much deeper yellow ground-colour, 

 fainter and more curved discal series of spots in the fore- 

 wing, and conspicuous development of the inner sub- 

 marginal series of white lunular markings. In the two 



