Rhopalocera from Southern Africa. 443 
ocelli remarkably smaller, rather ovate than circular, 
much duller in colouring. 
The subapical projection of the fore wing is con- 
siderably longer in the female than in the male. 
This butterfly is nearly related to S. Anacardit, L. 
It is distinguished by its smaller size (especially in the 
male, where it is very remarkable); white, instead of 
greenish, ground colour; much duller iridescence, and 
great development of the dark markings, especially in 
the apical area of the fore wings; while the under side 
is conspicuously duller and less metallic, more irrorated, 
without white variegation, and with uncoloured and 
almost obsolete ocelli in the fore wing. In outline the 
projections of both wings are much shorter and blunter, 
especially in the male. 
In several of the characters noted, S. nebulosa ap- 
proaches the Madagascarene S. Duprei, Vinson, but it 
altogether wants the long anal-angular tail of the hind 
wing so conspicuous in that species, and has much 
larger dark markings in the hind wing; while the blunt 
subapical projection of the fore wing is totally different 
from the long process so conspicuous in S. Dupre. 
Three specimens of this butterfly—a male and two 
females—were taken near St. Lucia Bay, in Zululand, 
by the late Colonel H. Tower, in the year 1867, and 
presented to me by him in the following year. It was 
not until 1878 that I saw another example, Colonel 
J. H. Bowker having, in November of that year, forwarded 
to the South African Museum a female found by him in 
a collection of insects made at D’Urban, Natal, by a 
resident there. Colonel Bowker has recently sent me a 
male captured by himself in the neighbourhood of 
D’Urban. 
Mrs. Monteiro’s collection contains a fine female taken 
at Delagoa Bay ; and there are three specimens in Mr. 
Henley Grose Smith’s collection, which were sent, I 
believe, from some part of Tropical Eastern Africa. 
LYCHNIDA. 
LycmNEstTHES, Moore. 
Lycenesthes livida, nu. s. 
Exp. al..1 in.—1 in. 3 lin. 
g. Shining greyish brown, with a cupreous gloss ; 
in both wings a very pale greyish blue suffusion from 
