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each wing: a blackish hind-marginal border, in hind-wing 

 intersected by a row of white lunules. Hind-wing : hind- 

 marginal white line conspicuous ; spots black, the first 

 orange-lunuled. UNDER-SIDE. As in $ ; but all white 

 edgings broader, conspicuous ; outer edging of transverse 

 fascia and inner submarginal row of lunules sometimes 

 suffused and confluent, forming a white band. 



The anal-angular region of hind- wing of $ is considerably 

 produced. 



I do not feel certain as to the species just described being truly Godart's 

 Emolus, which is noted as possessing a white-ringed black spot about 

 middle of inner-margin of hind-wing, and but one spot on hind-margin. 

 Wallengren's diagnosis of Sichela accords well with the examples above 

 characterised with regard to the upper-surface, but I cannot quite reconcile 

 his rather complicated description of the markings of under-side of hind-wing 

 with the specimens before me. Wallengren notes Sichela as " ecaudata," 

 but as the little tufts in the Lycana which I describe are often wanting in 

 worn individuals, I do not find this a difference of any importance. Mr. 

 D'Urban informs me that an example in the British Museum, apparently 

 identical with his Kaffrarian specimens, is labelled " Borneo." 



Not uncommon. Gardens and bushy spots. 



August (b) Sept. (b) ; October (e)" April (e). 



This is a rapid flier, but only for a very short distance at a time. In 

 habits as well as in robust structure it approaches the genus Thecla. It is 

 fond of settling on young shoots sf oak-stumps. Common in some seasons 

 in the Botanic Gardens, Cape Town. 1 only saw a single specimen at 

 Knysna. 



Cape Town. Knysna. Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. 

 Bowker). Coll. Tri. et Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 King William's Town. Coll. W. D'Urban. 

 " Bengal." Godt. " Amazoulu Country." Boisd. 



137. Lycsena Amarah. 



Polyommatus Amarah, Guer., Toy. en Abyss., par Lefebr., 



[p. 384, t. 11, f. 5, 6. ?. 



Lycaena Amarah, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 40. 

 Exp. 11 lin. 1 in. 1 lin. 



$ . Pale-grey, with a metallic sub-brassy lustre : a brown 

 hind-marginal bounding line ; cilia greyish-white. Hind-wing: 

 traces of two rows of dull-whitish lunules, those of outer 

 row combining with a whitish inner edging of hind-marginal 

 line to form imperfect rings, and the two last enlarged and 

 orange (the upper with an adjacent black spot) on either side 

 of third median nervule ; a slender, tail-like tuft of white 

 hairs at end of third median nervule, and a similar tuft at 

 end of submedian nervure. UNDER-SIDE. Brownish-grey ; 



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