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with an oblique whitish streak in the centre, and the costa 

 blackish. The female has longer hind-wings, and the central 

 whitish area of the wings more extended. The fore-wings 

 beneath are pale brownish, varied with white towards the 

 extremity of the inner-margin ; the hind-wings are greyish or 

 yellowish-grey, with light brown fasciae bordered with whitish. 



This species has been erroneously stated to inhabit ants' 

 nests. I imagine the error to have arisen from the fact that 

 the larvse of many Lyccznidce, and possibly of this species too, 

 exude a substance which is attractive to ants. 



GENUS LUCIA. 



Lucia, Swainson, Zool. 111. ii. p. 135 (1833); Westwood, 111. 

 Diurn. Lepid. p. 501 (1852). 



The type of this species is Lucia lucanus (Fabricius), a small 

 Australian Butterfly with rounded wings, which are yellow above, 

 with broad black borders, and a black spot in the middle of 

 the fore-wings. The latter are yellowish beneath, with square 

 brown spots, and the hind-margin brown. The hind-wings are 

 red beneath, irrorated with yellow, and marked with some 

 square brown spots. 



Schatz and Rober erroneously give Lachnocnema bibulus, 

 (Fabricius), a small brown South African Butterfly, as the type 

 of this genus. 



SUB-FAMILY II. LIPTENIN^E. 



Under this heading, Schatz and Rober propose to include a 

 number of African genera which agree in having the sub-costal 

 nervure always five-branched. With them they enumerate the 

 abnormal Eastern genus Liphyra. Until recently, very few of 

 these aberrant African Lyccenida. were known, but within the 

 last twelve years a great number have been described and 



