364 Mr. Roland Triiuen on 



Since the publication (1806) of the second part of 

 lihopalocera Africce atistralis, I have received this exqui- 

 site species from near Graham's Town (Mrs. Barber) , 

 Murraysburg (J. J. Muskett), Natal (W. Morant), 

 Motito, Bechuana-laud (late Kcv. J. Frcdoux) , and the 

 Trans-Vaal (T. Ayres) . There is a specimen from the 

 White Nile in the British Museum. 



Lycoena Macalenga, n. sp. (PI. lY. figs. 5, 6.) 



Allied to L. Jesous. 



Exp. S llf lin-; 9 n liii. 



S . Pale, silky, violaceous-blue, ^vith \vide pale sandy- 

 brown pink-tinged borders ; bases tinged with deep 

 purplish blue ; cilia white throughout. Fore-wing : blue 

 space separate from basal dark blue, occujiying the inner 

 margin as far as the posterior angle, but leaving a hind- 

 marginal border widening to the apex, and a costal border 

 so greatly widening to the basal dark-blue as almost to 

 touch the inner margin ; inner edge of the discal blue 

 strongly defined by a denticidate raised line of paler blue. 

 Ilind-iving : borders somewhat similar, but that of the 

 hind-margin of even width ; the inner edge of discal blue 

 similarly defined about the origin of the subcostal ner- 

 vules; two indistinct fuscous hind-marginal spots between 

 the second median nervule and anal angle, the superior 

 one the larger. 



Underside. Much resembling that of L. Jesous. Fore- 

 wivg : the black and ferruginous subcostal stripe ending 

 before the extremity of the cell ; no spot in the cell ; 

 the short streak closing the cell straighter and narrower 

 than in Jesous; the submacular transverse fascia com- 

 mencing further from the costa and from the base, not so 

 oblique, curved inwardly rather than outwardly, its 

 terminal separate spot much closer to, and almost imme- 

 diately below, the closing streak of cell ; submarginal 

 lunulato streak more denticulate, obsolete inferiorly ; 

 no hind-marginal black dots, but indistinct brownish 

 marks ; between the end of the subcostal stripe and the 

 beginning of the submacular transverse fascia, a longitu- 

 dinal row of three black ■white-ringed dots, of which the 

 middle one is the largest. Uiud-n-ing : basal stripe much 

 thinner ; third black spot of sub-basal row as large as 



