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a white,stripe, narrow in fore-wing but wider and conspicuous 

 in hind-wing, excepting near inner-margin, touching the 

 greater portion of outer line of fascia, followed by a 

 lunulate stria and a hind-marginal edging. Fore-wing : a 

 short triple fascia, similar to the longer one described, across 

 cell, and another, like it, at extremity of cell. Hind-wing : 

 base lightly irrorated with, blackish ; two to four transverse 

 striae in basal portion, in places more or less confluent ; 

 mixed up with these a triple streak closing cell : two black 

 spots exteriorly edged with bluish or greenish-silvery, and 

 interiorly bordered by an orange lunule (indistinct in lower 

 spot). 



? . Dull-brownish, vividly shot with shining -blue from base 

 and over disc. Hind-wing. : sometimes almost devoid of blue ; 

 beyond middle, a transverse row of broad, more or less 

 conspicuous, white lunules ; a row of thinner lunules near 

 margin combine with a hind-marginal line to form bluish- 

 white rings, of which the two next anal angle are complete, 

 enclosing the two black spots. UNDER-SIDE. As in $ ; 

 but marking more conspicuous, especially the white stripe in 

 fore-wing. 



Cilia in both sexes greyish at origin, white on outer edge. 



LARVA. " Darker or lighter green : the back streaked 

 with red. In pods of Colutea arborescens,* or the common 

 Green Pea " Godart. 



PUPA. " Yellow, with five rows of black dots on the back 

 and under-surface. The Butterfly emerges after the tenth or 

 twelfth day." Godart. 



Gardens, roadsides, woods and copses, &c. 



Throughout, the year: most comtuun from October to ApriT. 



This beautiful Lyccena may always be seen in gardens, flitting about 

 leguminous plants ; it is also very frequent about the gay- flowered 

 " Keurboom " (Virgilia Capensis), a tree that, according to the late Dr. 

 Pappe, has rapidly naturalised itself in the Western Province of the Colony, 

 its proper home being on the Eastern Frontier. L. Bostica bas a very 

 extended geographical range, as will be seen from the appended list of 

 localities, but does not seem to occur in America or Australia, 



Cape Town. Genadendal (G. Hettarsch). Knysna. Plet- 

 tenberg Bay. St. Helena. Damaraland (J. A. Bell). 

 Coll. Tri. 



Butterworth and Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). 

 Natal. Madagascar. Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Cape of Good Hope. Madeira. Teneriffe. Spain. 

 Turkey. North India. Landoor (Himalaya). Punjaub. 

 Ceylon. China. Hongkong. Java. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



* Known as the " Bladder Senna." 



