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darker white-edged spots indistinct, or sometimes obso- 

 lete, except for the thin internal white edging ; adjoining 

 the conspicuous white spots of the cilia a row of elongate- 

 ovate white rings, usually better marked in fore wing 

 than in hind wing. Fore wing : Spots of discal row 

 confluent into a nearly straight fascia, slightly bent 

 inward on median nervules ; beyond this traces of a 

 row of thin sharply- sagittate white marks. Hind wing : 

 First and last spots of discal row ovate, black, white- 

 ringed ; other spots of row confluent, suffused ; a sub- 

 basal transverse row of three round black spots in white 

 rings ; beyond discal row a conspicuous, very acutely 

 dentated, white transverse line composed of contiguous 

 sagittiform marks ; on hind margin, between 1st and 

 2nd median nervules, a small indistinct blackish spot 

 centred with a few bluish- white scales. 



Separable from L. Metkymna, Trim., by (1) darker 

 upper side, without any reddish tinge ; (2) absence of 

 disco-cellular lunule on upper side of fore wing ; (3) 

 darker, more ashy under side, with (4) less distinct and 

 less macular discal row ; (5) more elongate and dis- 

 tinctly denned white rings of hind-marginal row ; and 

 (6) more conspicuous and acutely dentated white trans- 

 verse line in hind wing. 



Taken in some abundance at and near Malmesbury, 

 a village some miles to the northward of Cape Town, by 

 Colonel Bowker and myself. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Western Districts). 



Lyccsna Boivkeri, n. s. 



Exp. al. 1 in. 1£ — 2£ lin. 



Allied to L. Thespis, Linn. 



$ . Silky lilacine-blue ; each wing with a rather 

 large blackish lunular mark closing discoidal cell, and a 

 moderately wide macular blackish hind-marginal border ; 

 cilia broad, black, conspicuously interrupted with white 

 between nervules. Hind wing : The spots composing 

 hind-marginal border more separated than in fore wing 

 (especially near anal angle), and immediately preceded 

 by contiguous thin whitish lunules. Under side : 

 Yellowish white; each wing with disco-cellular lunule, 

 irregular interrupted discal row of spots, and sub- 

 marginal row of smaller subquadrate spots, — all pale 



