362 Mr. lloliiud Triuicn vn 



Lyccena Niobe. 



Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc, 3 ser., i. 282; Rhop. Afr. austr. 

 p. 253, pi. iv. f. 10. 



One of each sex was taken at Koro-Koro towards the 

 end of 1868. The cJ is unusually small, but with the 

 underside markings very distinct; and the $ closely 

 resembles that figured in my Catalogue. 



A very fine $ , expanding 1 in. 7 liu., was taken at 

 Highlands, neai* Grahamstown, by Mr. H. Barber, during 

 my stay there in February, 1870. 



Lyccena Letsea, u. sp. (PL VI. figs. 3, 4.) 



Allied to L. Asojnis, Hopffer (Monatsb. d. k. Akad. 

 Wiss. zu Berlin, 1855, p. 612 ; also in Peters^ Reise nach 

 Mossamb. Ins. p. 410, pi. xxvi. f. 13-15;) and L. Parsi- 

 mon, Fabr. (Syst. Ent. p. 526) . 



Exp. 1 in. 34-7^ lin. 



c? . Shining hwionisli-gray ; cilia slightly paler, not 

 variegated. Fore-wing : a terminal disco-cellular streak, 

 sometimes faintly visible. Hind-wing: on hind-margin, 

 on each side of the first median nervule, a very faint 

 yellowish luuule, of which the superior is large, and 

 marked externally with a black dot. (The tendency is 

 for these markings to be very faint and indistinct, and 

 in two examples they are blurred and scarcely traceable.) 



Underside. Gray : ordinary markings small and neatly 

 defined, resembling those of L. Messajms, Godt. (Enc. 

 Moth. ix. 682). Fore-wing: lower portion of transverse 

 roiv of white-ringed black spots beyond middle almost always 

 wanting, the usual number of spots present being four 

 (in one example there are but three, while in another 

 there are five, with the faint trace of a sixth on one side 

 only) . Hind-wing : a faint pale-blueish sufl^'usion over 

 basal portion; yellow lunules more deeply coloured and 

 much better marked than on upperside, the black dot of 

 the superior one more or less dusted with silvery-blue. 



? . Similar, slightly darker ; cilia whiter than in ^ . 

 Fore-u-ing : disco-cellular lunule plainer than in (^, but 



