1896.] FEOM NT ASA-LAND. 829 



56. AZANUS SIGILLATUS. 



Lampidcs sigillatus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. 

 xviii. p. 483 (1876). 



rf (J , Henga, W. of Lake Nyasa, Nov. 20th, 1895. 

 "Perches on branches of trees " (R. C.). 



57. NACADUBA SICHELA. 



Lyccena sichela, Wallengren, Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. 

 Handl. 1857, Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 37. 



c? d , Henga, W. of Lake Nyasa, Nov. 20th, 1895. 



"Very active on the wing" (R. C.). 



In Mr. Trimen's description of this rare butterfly the upper 

 surface is said to be " silky dark-violaceous " ; but I find that the 

 colouring is particularly liable to deepen in the damping-pan (often 

 in patches) : an example which has wholly escaped this discolora- 

 tion, if one sits between it and the light, is of the same beautiful 

 lilac as the European " Common Blue," * with a narrow, tapering 

 blackish border to the outer margin; but if held between one 

 and the light, it changes to a sickly greenish grey, more nearly 

 approaching the colouring of Plebeius orbitulus. 



58. CASTALIUS CALICE. 



Lyccena calice, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berl. 1855, p. 642; 

 Peters' Eeise nach Mossamb. v. p. 405, pi. 26. figs. 4, 5 (1861). 

 Lower Nyika, June 14th, 1895. 



59. LYC^ENESTHES ADHERBAL. 



2 . Lyccena adherbal, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, 

 p. 217. 



c? . Lyccenesthes lunulata, Trimen, P. Z. S. lb'94, p. 51, pi. vi. 

 fig. 12. 



, Kondowi, 4000 feet alt., Nyika, Feb. 21st, 1896. 



" Emerald-green ova" (R. C.). 



60. LYC^ENESTIIES LIODES. 



d 1 . Lyccenesthes liodes, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1874, 

 p. 349. 



2 , Kondowi, Nyika, Feb. 2nd, 1896. 



61. ZiZERA KNTSNA. 



Lyccena knysna, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 3rd ser. vol. i. 

 p. 282 (1862). 



d 1 d , Deep Bay, Feb. 24th and 26th, March 8th, 1896. 



44 JNever plentiful ; an odd one met with here and there. A very 

 low fiier, hovers within an inch or so of the ground, and has to be 

 dredged off it almost with the net" (R. C.). 



1 I believe this species now stands under the name of Cupido icarus 



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