some new species of South African LyccEnidce. 333 



stria becomes fuscous near the point of meeting with the 

 inner, and is thence black; the usual hind-marginal spots 

 between 2nd and 1st median nervules and on anal-angular 

 lobe respectively, the former black, inwardly bordered 

 rather conspicuously with fulvous-yellow, the latter as on 

 upperside ; faint traces of a dusky line just before hind 

 margin, which is itself very finely edged with black. 



$. White, with broad fuscous clouding and borders. 

 Foreiving : fuscous basal clouding fills discoidal cell for 

 about three-fourths of its length, and extends below it to 

 inner margin, but does not reach beyond middle ; fuscous 

 border extends from base to anal angle, and is very broad 

 in apical region ; disco-cellular striae indistinctly marked, 

 and traces visible of the longer strife beyond middle. 

 Hindwing : fuscous clouding in basal region fills cell and 

 extends irregularly, beyond, above and below it, about to 

 middle ; the two underside strife strongly marked, fuscous, 

 suffused, not meeting, but widely separated, between 1st 

 median nervule and sub-median nervure ; some fliscous 

 scaling near apex ; hind-marginal and sub-marginal streaks 

 and spots well marked. Underside. — Quite as in $, 

 except that, in the hindwing, the two strife beyond middle, 

 though approximating much more nearly than on upper- 

 side, do not meet. 



This butterfly is a close ally of U. Philipptis, Fab. In 

 the ^, it is distinguished by the more purple, less cupreous 

 colour of the upperside, and the conspicuous lohite cilia of 

 the hindmngs ; and in both sexes, by the lohiteness of the 

 underside, with its thinner, much straighter strife, and by 

 the longer tails of the hindwings. 



The upperside of the $ is most strikingly different from 

 the brownish-grey colouring of that of the 2 Fhilippus, 

 and the disparity is almost as remarkable as that between 

 the ^s of Sithon Batikeli, Boisd., and -S'. Diodes, Hewits., 

 the ? s of which can scarcely be distinguished except by 

 one or two slight characters that would escape a cursory 

 comparison. 



A single $ specimen was sent me from Pinetown, Natal, 

 by the Late Dr. J. E. Seaman, and a ^ by Mr. Walter 

 Morant, towards the end of 1869. Both were rather 

 damaged, and I have hitherto deferred describing the 

 species in the hope of getting more perfect examples, but 

 have seen no others up to the present time. Dr. Seaman 

 noted the 2 as having been taken in July, " at an opening 

 in the bush ;" and Mr. Morant described the $ as occurring 



