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measuring in expanse of wings about 22 mm. ; upper surface of male 

 of a somewhat brighter blue, with only a single discal spot on the 

 fore-wings and a much narrower black hind margin in both wings ; 

 under surface with the black markings much more distinct, especially 

 those of the fore-wings ; hind-wings with a row of distinct and w^ell 

 defined black spots running parallel to the hind margin, as in lalcanica, 

 but the spots are somewhat larger ; the black line immediately interior 

 to these, which in laJcanicn is pretty continuous, is in the present 

 species more or less broken up into lunate or subquadrate spots ; the 

 spots about the middle of the wing much more irregular and not 

 forming such regular lines as in halcanica. 



Lyecsna Theophrastus is fairly widely distributed in North Africa, 

 as will be seen below. Mr. J. J.Walker, EN., in an interesting 

 paper, entitled, " Notes on Lepidoptera from the Straits of Gibraltar," 

 published in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of Loudon 

 for 1890, says (p. 365), "Among the butterflies . . . Lijccena 

 TTieopJirasfus, F. (etc., etc.) . . . appear to be confined to the 

 Maroccan portion of the region," and again, on p. 373, he says that he 

 can find no previous record from Marocco. In regard to the latter 

 statement I may point out that the species was originally described 

 (female sex only) by Fabricius from that country. 



In conclusion, it may be interesting to give a brief summary of 

 the extra-European localities recorded for this butterfly,and considering 

 the wide distribution of the species here shown, the present extension 

 of its range does not seem so very striking after all. 



The following are the records referred to : — 

 Maeocco: Fabricius, Ent. Syst., iii, p. 281, n. 82 (1793). 

 Alg-eeia : Lucas, Exploration Scientifique de 1' Algeria, t. iii, Lepidopteres, Paris 



(1848) ; Lang, Butterflies of Europe, p. 140 (1884) ; Constantine, Sebdou, 



Bishra, Collo, Nemours, Oran, &c., Eiihl, Die Palaearktisehen Grosschmetter- 



liiige, pp. 227 and 749 (1895). 

 Tunis : Riihl, op. eit., p. 749. 



Barbaey and Egypt : Godart, Encycl. Methodique, ix, p. 658, n. 139 (1823 ?). 

 Somali-land : Butler, P. Z. S., 1885, p. 764 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S., 1896, pp. 524 & 533. 

 Aeabia : Lahej, Aden, Butler, P. Z. S., 1884, p. 484. 

 India : India, Kanara and N. India, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, 



vol. i, p. 25 (1857) ; Bengal, iVIoore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 772 ; Mhoto, Butler, P. 



Z. S., 1883, p. 148, and Swinhoe, P. Z. S., 1886, p. 428 ; North Sind, SulcJcur, 



Shikarpore, Swinhoe, P. Z. S., 1884, p. 506 ; Poona and Bombay, Swinhoe, P. 



Z. S., 1885, p. 134 ; JIaldioani, at foot of Kumaon Hills, Dohcrtj, Journ. As. 



Soc. Beng., vol. Iv, pt. 2, pp. 112 and 132 (1886). 

 Ceylon : Moore, Lep. Ceylon, vol. i, p. 81, pi. xxxvi, fig. 3 (1881). 



Edinburgh : February, 1898. 



