1897.] butteeflies collected df natal, 845 



57. LtCjEnesthes millaei. 



Lyccenesthes millari, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 133, 

 pi. viii. fig. 9. 



cJ , Tugela Eiver, near "Weneen, 2500 feet, 5th and 13th 

 November, 1896, 



58. LyCjENESThes otacilia, Trimen, 



2 , Estcourt, 13th October, 1896, 



" Abundant later on, on Acacias." It is new to the Museum. 



59. Lyc^nesthes amaeah, G-uer. 



Tugela Eiver, 15th and 19th November, 1896. 



60. SOOLTTANTIDES METOPHIS, Wallgr. 



Tugela Eiver, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 15th November, 1896. 



I do not for a moment believe that it is possible to distinguish 

 /S. harberte from S. metophis ; in a series of six examples, obtained 

 by Mr. Marshall on the same day, the expanse of wings varies 

 from 16 to 20 millimetres, and the submarginal white spots 

 on the secondaries from one to three on opposite wings of the 

 same example : the character upon which the former may yet 

 be separated, so far as our present series goes, _ is the absence 

 of the conspicuous (but somewhat variable) white submarginal 

 spot preceding the second cluster of silver scales on the under 

 surface of the secondaries; and that appears to me to be in- 

 sufficient. It is hard upon me, considering the reputation with 

 which I have been saddled of being a multiplier of names, to 

 have to call in question the validity of one of my friend Trimen's 

 species ; but I must confess that, in bolstering up L. barberce, he 

 departs so widely from the " broad views " which used to charac- 

 terize his early work that I am fain to remonstrate. 



61. Cacveeus LrNGETJS, Cramer, 



Karkloof, I2th and 14th February, 1897. 



The generic name of Hyreus being preoccupied in Birds, I will 

 rename this genus Cacyreiis, taking C, lingeus as type, 



62. Cacyeetjs pal^mon, Cramer, (Plate L. fig. 4.) 



Niginya, 5800 feet, IJlundi, 14th September, 1896. 



Mr. Marshall writes—" You will observe that the specimens 

 from Ulundi are of the usual bluish-coppery tinge, but round 

 here neither sex ever shows a trace of blue ; there is also a slight 

 but seemingly constant difference on the underside : perhaps 

 it should be regarded as a subspecies," I think myself that it is 

 a distinct species. 



63. Cacyeeus maeshalli, sp. n. (Plate L. fig. 5.) 



Differs from C. palcemon in its squarer form, the costa of the 

 primaries being shorter and the secondaries with shorter abdo- 

 minal margin. Owing to the bronze-brown colouring of the 



