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still indistinct, llind-iving : yellow lunules broader and 

 brighter, the black dot strongly marked ; in one (the 

 largest) example there is a double row of indistinct 

 whitish acute lunular marks along hind-margin, becom- 

 ing obsolete towards costa, but in the other two, the 

 outer portion only of the row is indicated by the very 

 faintest whitish scaling. 



Underside. All the mai-kings better defined, and 

 with wider white edgings than in the (^ . Fore-iving : 

 discal row composed of six spots in the largest example ; 

 of six on one side and fi.ve on the other, in the smallest ; 

 and of five in the third. 



In both sexes, when there are more than four spots in 

 the discal row of the fore-wings, the fifth spot is smaller, 

 and (as well as the sixth, when present) placed slightly 

 before the line of the others. The row is but very 

 slightly curved, commencing at a little distance from the 

 costa, immediately above the first discoidal nervule. 



From both Parsimon and Asopus, this Lycmna may 

 be distinguished by the darker ground-colour, and 

 smaller, darker, more narrowly white-edged spots of 

 the underside, as well as by the want of any blue on 

 the upperside of the female. From the former. Let- 

 sea further differs in its smaller size, darker upperside, 

 and much more elongate yellow lunules (when present) 

 in the hind- wings; while it is larger than Asopus, and 

 diverges widely in having no trace of hind-marginal white 

 lunules on the upperside in the (S , and only indistinct 

 traces of them in the ? . 



Mr. Bowker found this dull-tinted species commonly 

 about the waggon-roads near Rouxville and the Orange 

 River, in January, 1869, and also in similar situations 

 near Eland's Bay and Klip Spruit, in the following- 

 month. 



Lyccena Jesous. 



Polyommatus Jesous, Guerin, Voy. en Abyss, p. 383, 

 pi. xi. f. 3, 4 (c?). 



A single example of each sex reached me from Maseru 

 early in June, 1870. The ? is smaller than usual, and 

 has much less whitish on the discs of the wings. 



