1896. ] FROM NYASA-LAND. 829 
56. AZANUS SIGILLATUS. 
Lampides sigillatus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. 
xvill. p. 483 (1876). 
$ ¢, Henga, W. of Lake Nyasa, Nov. 20th, 1895. 
“‘ Perches on branches of trees” (2. C.). 
57. NACADUBA SICHELA. 
Lycana  sichela, Wallengren, Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. 
Handl. 1857, Lep. Rhop. Caftr. p. 37. 
3 3, Henga, W. of Lake Nyasa, Noy. 20th, 1895. 
‘Very active on the wing” (&. C.). 
In Mr. Trimen’s description of this rare butterty 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 Plebevus orbitulus. 
58. CasTALIUS CALICE. 
Lycena calice, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berl. 1855, p. 642; 
Peters’ Reise nach Mossamb. v. p. 405, pl. 26. figs. 4, 5 (1861). 
Lower Nyika, June 14th, 1895. 
59. LyYCENESTHES ADHERBAL. 
Q. Lycena adherbal, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, 
p- 217. 
3. Lycenesthes lunulata, Trimen, P. Z.8. 1894, p. 51, pl. vi. 
fig. 12. 
2, Kondowi, 4000 feet alt., Nyika, Feb. 21st, 1896. 
« Emerald-green ova” (2. C.). 
60. LYCENESTHES LIODES. 
o . Lycenesthes liodes, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1874, 
p- 349. 
2, Kondowi, Nyika, Feb. 2nd, 1896. 
61. ZizERA KNYSNA. 
Lycena knysna, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 3rd ser. vel. i. 
p- 282 (1862). 
3 3, Deep Bay, Feb. 24th and 26th, March 8th, 1896. 
“Never plentiful; an odd one met with here and there. A very 
low flier, hovers within an inch or so of the ground, and has to ke 
dredged off it almost with the net” (R. C.). 
1 T believe this species now stands under the name of Cupido tcarus. 
