332 Mr, Roland Trimen on 



it was easily taken with the fingers.* This is the only $ 

 of the insect that I have seen, but three others, ¥ s, have 

 reached me from Mrs. Barber, one taken near King 

 WiUiam's Town by Miss Fanny Bowker in 1869, and 

 the others by Mrs. Barber herself, while travelling through 

 the North-Eastern portion of the Colony, in 1872. Mrs. 

 Barber confirms her brother's account of the habits of 

 I. MimoscB, and adds that both it and /. Bowkeri chiefly 

 haunt the mistletoe {Loranthus sp.), which so generally 

 infests the mimosa trees. 



Hab. — Grahamstown and King William's Town, Cape 

 Colony; Tsomo River, Kaffraria. — In the collection of 

 R. Trimen. 



Genus Hypolyc^na, Felder. 



HypolyccBna Seamani, n. sp. (PI. II. figs. 3 and 4.) 



Exp. (<?) 1 in. U lin.; (?) 1 in. 3 lin. 



$ . Ricli violaceous-purple. Hindicing : a hind-marginal 

 black line from 2nd median nervule to anal angle, imme- 

 diately preceded by a concurrent j^ure white line — the 

 latter widening into a white space on anal-angular lobe; 

 two very indistinct dark spots just before the white line, 

 one above, the other below 1st median nervule; a third 

 spot, black, densely scaled with silvery-bluish and golden 

 scales, on anal-angular lobe, edged interiorly and exteriorly 

 with pure white ; tails at extremities of 1st median nervule 

 and sub-median nervure respectively (of which the latter 

 is nearly twice as long as the former), thin, black, con- 

 .spicuously fringed and tipped ■\^dth pure white. Cilia of 

 forewing apparently greyish, of hindwing pure white, both 

 on hind and inner margin. Underside. — White, with 

 thin yellow-ochreous strice ; in both wings a short stria 

 closing discoidal cell, and two transverse striae (convergent 

 downward, the outer one thinner and fainter than the inner) 

 beyond middle. Foreioing: the stride beyond middle 

 commence on costa but do not reach inner margin, ending 

 a little below sub-median nervure. Hindwing : elongate 

 spot near base, below precostal nervure, red; the outer 

 and inner striaj meet beloAV 3rd median nervule, but are 

 thence independently deflected to inner margin; the outer 



* In 1867, I observed this habit of I. BowUri among the stunted 

 Acacia horrida in the dry upland country near Greytown, in Natal. 



