80 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



specimens from Plettenberg Bay, are shaped like arrow-heads, and distinctly 

 marked. The type form is found near Graham's Town. 



I am inclined to think, wi:h M. Wallengren, that this species should be 

 held the type of a new Genus, the elongated and stout palpi, thick and very 

 short antennse, clumsily-made body, and peculiar markings and colour, 

 conferring upon it a distinctness of its own, Specimens from Knysna have 

 the antennae much shorter than those of examples from Kuffraria, and not 

 quite so long as are found in the typical form. 



Waste, sandy places at road-sides, bases of hills, &c. 



November (e) February (b). ' October." W. D'Urban. 



This curious butterfly seems fonder of sand and heat that any species 

 with which I am acquainted. At Kuvsna, I used frequently to find specimens 

 sitting on the heaped-up dust of the roads, and appearing to like it better 

 than any other situation, as they would return after being disturbed by any 

 passing traveller or waggon. The insect is very difficult to see when settled, 

 assimilating as it does so closely to the colour of the surface on which it 

 loves to rest. Its flight is very short and not so rapid as thalt of most 

 species of Zerilis. 



Cape Town. Stellenbosch. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. 

 New Year's River, Albany (H. I. Atherstone). Coll. Tri. 

 " King William's Town and Izeli." W. D'Urban, in litt. 

 Bashee River, Kaftraria (J. H. Bowker). Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Genus LUCIA? 

 Lucia, Westw. 



IMAGO. Palpi long, ascendant, roughly fringed with hair 

 beneath ; antennce short, stout, with a cylindrical rather 

 gradually-formed club. Wings entire : fore-wings long, with 

 straight costa and convex hind-margin ; hind-wings much 

 rounded, without inner-marginal groove. Legs short and 

 thick, the tibce very densely hairy. 



I have followed Hopffer in referring to the above Genus, 

 which only contains a few Australian species, the very curious 

 little butterfly named Delegorguei by Boisduval. In the 

 "Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera" this insect is doubtfully 

 referred to Lyc&na, from which it is certainly very distinct. 

 Not having examined the species of Lucia, or Westwood's 

 diagnosis of that Genus, I am necessarily uncertain whether 

 Hopffer is right in the position he has assigned to Delegorguei, 

 and the above generic characters are taken solely from the 

 South African species named. 



174. Lucia (?) Delegorguei. 



Lycaena Delegorguei, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 588. 

 (?) Delegorguei, Doubt. , Westw. , Hewits., Gen. 



[JD. Lep. 



Lucia Delegorguei, Hopffer, in Peters' Reise nach Moss., 

 Exp. 10 lin. 1 in. 2 lin. [p. 411. 



