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XV. Descriptions of twelve new species of South- African 

 Lepidoptera-Bhopalocera. By Boland Trimen, 

 F.B.S., &c, Curator of the South-African Museum, 

 Cape Town. 



[Bead June 6th, 1883.] 



The species here described comprise one member of 

 the Nymphalida, six of the Lyccenidce, two of the 

 Papilionidce, and three of the Hesperida. Seven of 

 them will be figured in my new work on the South- 

 African Butterflies. 



The most remarkable among these new species is 

 Lyccena stellata, one of the smallest of known forms, in 

 which the ordinary pattern of the under side of the 

 wings is in both sexes distinctly outlined in white on 

 the very dark upper side. D'Urbania saga is a very 

 distinct and interesting addition to a genus hitherto 

 represented by a single species. 



NYMPHALID^. 

 NYMPHALINJil. 



Precis, Hiibn. 



Precis Sesamus, n. s. 



Exp. al. 2 in. 5 — 11 lin. 



Closely allied to P. Amestris, Drury. 



Black, irrorated and transversely banded with vio- 

 laceous-blue ; a common discal row of conspicuous red 

 spots. Fore wing : Basal area thickly irrorated with 

 blue, crossed by five black streaks in discoidal cell ; 

 discal row of four red spots (surmounted near costa by 

 two small round white spots) between two blue bands, of 

 which the inner one is continuous and irregularly exca- 

 vated along its internal edge, and the other one regular 

 but macular ; a series of bluish-white lunules along 

 hind-marginal edge. Hind wing : Bands and basal 

 irroration much as in fore wing, but inner blue band 

 soon merges in basal blue, and outer one is continuous ; 



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