2o8 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Li'owu ; a lilac-blue submarginal streak, iudistinct towards apex, near 

 which it is preceded by three to four lunules of the same colour. 

 Hind-wing : a pale-ochreous spot at base enclosing a blackish-centred 

 dull-whitish ocellus in a ferruginous brown ring ; the following dark 

 ferruginous-brown markings, viz., one roughly triangular on costa next 

 to basal spot ; another elongated and elbowed on costa a little beyond 

 the first ; and two in discoidal cell, one basal and circular, the other 

 central and elongated, botli ringed with a bluish-white line ; defining 

 extremity of cell a similarly-coloured much longer marking, blunt 

 superiorly and pointed inferiorly, crossed by paler nervules ; near inner 

 margin on disc much lilac-blue irroration, and a little near costa 

 towards base ; beyond middle a very irregular pale-brown streak, 

 bordered on both sides by dark ferruginous-brown, and becoming very 

 zigzag and broken near inner margin ; apical hind-marginal region 

 pale-ochrous shaded with brown and glossed with violaceous ; sub- 

 marginal luuules linear, black, edged outwardly with yellow, inwardly 

 with lilac ; the ocellate spots imperfect, but beyond and above them 

 much greenish-blue irroration, and immediately before them a strongly- 

 festooned black streak, which becomes ferruginous-brown, and finally 

 obsolete in its extension towards apex. 



$ Duller and paler than ^ ; apical region of fore-wing less produced 

 and blnnter, the tails of hind-wing broader and with blunt tips. 



Yevj closely allied to E. Hippomcne (Hiibn.), and to the butterfly 

 described and figured under the same name by Boisduval in his Faune 

 Entomoloijiquc dc Madaijascar, &c., p. 43, pi. 8, figs. 3, 4. In outline 

 and marking, E. Schceneia would appear, judging from Boisduval 's work 

 only (for I have no examples of the Mascarene species), to be more 

 intimately related to Boisduval's insect than to its South-African con- 

 gener, the true ffippomcnc of Hiibner. From the latter, Schceneia is 

 best distinguished by (i) the very much longer (and ferruginous instead 

 of blcicl:) tails of the hind-wings; (2) the narrower (especially in hind- 

 wings) and more deeply-coloured yellow bands; (3) the two suffused 

 transverse black streaks o-n disc of hind-u-i)igs, which are wanting in 

 Hippomcnc ; and, as regards the under side, by (4) the costa of fore- 

 wing near base being faintly dusted with bluish scales instead of con- 

 spicuously barred with whitish ; (5) the decidedly ferruginous and lilac- 

 glossed general colouring; and (6) the absence in hind-wings of both 

 the costal white patches and the two or more ocelli in superior half of 

 discal region. 



The palpi of Seha'ueia are ferruginous beneath, with a pure wliite 

 edo-inii- on the upper-lateral and internal-inferior portions, while in 

 Hippomene they are uniformly yellowish-white ; above they are fuscous 

 in both species. 



Notwithstanding the great difference between this butterfly and the "West- 

 African E. Delius (Drury) in the pattern and colouring of the upper side (which 

 in Ddins is dark suffused Indian-red, Avith broad dusky-brown borders), the 



