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tolerably distinct one, radiating on the subcostal and 

 median nervules. In size, general appearance, and the 

 identity of underside markings, this butterfly comes so 

 very close to L. Messapus, that one hesitates to re- 

 gard it as a distinct species, especially when the grada- 

 tions in the extent and strength of the yellow sufiusion 

 are duly considered. The development of the other 

 orange lunules on the upperside of the hind-wings is a 

 feature of distinction ; and as it prevails in certain dark- 

 brown females found in the same spots, in other respects 

 quite like ordinary Messapius, it would seem to be a fixed 

 tendency of a race, though somewhat unstable in cha- 

 racter. None of the yellow- suffused males — not even 

 the individual with the slightest tinge — has less than two 

 orange lunules, instead of the one lunule usually present 

 in Messapus, while in one strongly-suffused example 

 there are three, and in another four. 



In September, 1869, Mr. Walter Morant sent a S and 

 9 Mahallohocena taken within the boundaries of the 

 Free State, on the banks of the Vaal Eiver. The (? 

 agreed pretty closely with Wallengren's description, but 

 the hind- wings were almost devoid of any suffusion ; and 

 of the three orange lunules present, had only the central 

 one well-marked. The $ possessed two lunules, and 

 was remai'kable for the unusual paleness of the under- 

 side, in which most of the markings were very indis- 

 tinct. * 



Lyccena Gaika. 

 Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc, 3 ser., i. 403 (1862). 



In my Rhop. Afr. aust. p. 257, 1 provisionally referred 

 this species to L. Lysimon, but have since determined 

 it as perfectly distinct; the insect named L. Knysna 

 in my Catalogue (p. 255) agreeing thoroughly with the 

 species' labelled '' Lysimon, Ochs." in the British Museum, 

 and with the recognized Lysimon from Mauritius and 

 Ceylon. 



Two males of this remarkably slender and long-winged 

 species have been sent from Maseru. These have 



* Both sexes of L. Messa'pus are liable to iudistinctness, or almost 

 obliteration, of tlie underside ; but in such cases I have observed the 

 general ground-colour to be darker than usual. 



