3G(3 Mr. Roland Triinon on 



Port Elizabeth (J. L. Fry), aud the Trans-Vaal Country 

 (T. Ayres) . The butterfly appears to be of larger size 

 in these regions than in Turkey ; ]\Ir. Kirby giving its 

 expanse of wings as only 7 lines, while of eight specimens 

 now before me, the smallest expands nearly 8, and the 

 largest fully 11 lines. 



Lyccena Messapvs. 



Godart, Enc. Mcth. ix. G82 ( c?); Trimen, Rhop. Afr. 

 Austr. ii. 254. 



Of seven examples of the c? collected near Maseru, 

 one has no orange lunule on the hind-wings, two have it 

 very faintly marked, and the others present it of the 

 ordinary size. Two 9 are rather darker than usual on 

 the upperside, and have the oi*ange lunule well marked. 



Lyccena Mahallokocena. (PI. YI. figs. 7, 8.) 

 Wallengren, Svensk. Akad. Handl. 1857, p. 41. 



It gives me great pleasure to be able to record this 

 very curious form as one of Mr. Bowker's captures in 

 Basuto-land. Until I saw specimens from Maseru, Wal- 

 lengren's elaborate description was a perfect puzzle to 

 me, for I knew of no Lyccena with a fulvous-yellow suftu- 

 sion on the discal region of the wings. This suffu- 

 sion varies greatly in extent : of six J specimens for- 

 warded from near Maseru, one has only a faint trace of 

 fulvous-yellow in the fore-wings about the middle of the 

 costa ; another has a distinct sufiusion in the same posi- 

 tion, and a slight scaling of the same colour about the 

 bases of the median nervulos; two have it strongly deve- 

 loped along the costa, median nervure aud branches, and 

 submedian nervure, ^^^th a slight tinge of the same hue in 

 the hind-wings, crossing the subcostal nervure and the 

 extremity of the cell (these two examples agree most 

 closely with Wallengren's diagnosis) ; and the two others 

 present a broad field of the yellow occupying almost the 

 whole of the fore-wings, except a narrow basal and wide 

 hind-marginal space of blue, while in the hind- wings one 

 of them has no sufiusion whatever, and the other a 



