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ttften confluent with the transverse row beyond it, in one or both wings) .* 

 The variety is plentiful on the hills at Wynberg, and I have also a specimen 

 from the Caledon Division. 



Local : numerous where it occurs. Open, sandy country generally. 



September (in) January (b). 



This, the largest of the South African Lyc&n<$> is not unlike L. Arion^ 

 Linn., and is conspicuous when flying. It is easily taken, having the low 

 flight of the tail-less group of the Genus. 



Cape Town. Genadendal (G. Hettarsch). Mossel Bay, 

 Graham's Town (H. J. Atherstone). Butterworth and Bashee 

 River, Kaffraria (J. H Bowker). Natal (R. C. Jones, 

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



Port Natal. Congo, Sierra Leone. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



D. Hind-wing- without appendage, 



149. Lycsena Asopus. 



Lycaena Asopus, Hpfr., Monatsberichte d. Konigl. Akad. 



[d. Wissensch. zu Berlin, 1855, p. 642. 



Hpfr., in Peters' Reise nach Moss., 



[Ins., p. 410, pi. 26, f. 13, 14, 15. 



? . Lycsena Kama, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., 



[I, p. 403. 

 Exp. 11 lin. 1 in. 



? . Pale greyish-brown, shot from bases with bright-blue. 

 Fore-wing : blue occupies discoidal cell, extending on inner- 

 margin to beyond middle ; along hind-margin a row of very 

 indistinct, whitish-edged, dusky marks. Hind-wing : blue 

 extending through cell, covering median nervules ; crossing 

 the latter is a maeular, whitish fascia, reaching to second 

 subcostal nervule ; along hind-margin a row of white annulets, 

 of which one (between second and third median nervules) 

 encloses a black spot. UNDER-SIDE. Pale brownish-grey ; 

 in both wings an imperfect white annulet, enclosing a space 

 slightly darker than ground-colour, closes cell ; a row of 

 brownish, white-edged, confluent spots beyond middle (in 

 fore-wing from costa to submedian nervure) ; a submarginal 

 row of confluent, brownish lunules, white-edged interiorly 

 and exteriorly (between the row of spots and that of lunules 

 a whitish space, more conspicuous in hind-wing) ; followed 

 by a row of indistinct dark spots. Hind-wing : a transverse 

 row of four white-ringed black spots near base ; between 



* An example from the Caledon Division is beautifully intermediate in 

 colouring and marking between the ? s of the darker and lighter variations. 



