1894.] MANIC A, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 49 



northern locality on the eastern side, known to me as a habitat 

 of this curious species, was Pretoria ; although further inland it 

 had been found in the Bamangwato Country. 



79. Lyc^ena gaika, Trim. 



Lyccena gaika, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. i. p. 403 

 (1862). 



Two specimens from Christmas Pass. 



"When I described this species thirty years ago, I little imagined 

 that so exceptionally fragile and slow-flying a Butterfly — one of 

 the smallest of its genus — would be found to range over not only 

 a great part of Africa, but also from Aden over all the Oriental 

 Region to Java, and even into the Western Pacific (Solomon 

 Islands). 



80. Lyccena bostica (Linn.). 



Four examples from the Mineni Valley. 



81. Lyoena sichela, Wallengr. 



Lyccena sichela, Wallengr. loc. cit. 1857, p. 37. n. 4. 



Seven specimens from Christinas Pass. With the exception of 

 a male captured at Tati, South Matabeleland, in 1887, by the 

 late Mr. J. L. Fry, these are the first examples known to me from 

 tropical S.E. Africa, but I have recorded (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, 

 p. 82) the occurrence of the species in the tropical S.W. area. 



82. Lyoena telicanus (Lang). 



Two specimens from Christmas Pass, and three from the 

 Mineni Valley. 



There can be no doubt that the widely-spread Lyccena generally 



marking darker and broader. Hind wing : 3rd and 4th spots (rarely also 5th 

 and 7th spots) of discal series of underside reproduced, fuscous ; a whitish 

 line, preceded by traces of dark spots, just before hind-marginal edge; blackish 

 spot larger, the yellow preceding it usually taking the ordinary lunulate form ; 

 a yellowish space at anal angle. Underside. — As in male, but black spots 

 larger, and discal series usually complete, the 5th spot only reduced in one 

 example, and four others having all six as in L. exclusa, but with the lower 

 three less irregularly disposed. 



This species is readily distinguished from L. exclusa by the blue instead of 

 brownish-grey upperside of the male, and in both sexes by the ochre-yellow 

 instead of creamy-whitish underside ; another peculiar feature, most apparent 

 in the female, is the development of more or less ochry-yellowish along the 

 hind-marginal border. The intense blackness of the terminal discocellular and 

 discal spots of the underside is the same in both species, and obtains, as far as 

 I know, in no other species of this group of Lyccena. The anal angular spot 

 on the underside of L. exclusa is wanting in that of L. mashuna. The relation 

 between these two species corresponds very near to that between L. parsrmon 

 and L. patricia, Trim. 



The examples collected by Mr. Selous are two ( J and £ ) from the 

 Hanyani River, not far south of Fort Salisbury, received in 1886 ; two ( £ ) 

 from Motoko's Country, East Mashunaland, captured in November 1890 ; and 

 six (2 cS , 4 5)> without special locality, received in 1891. All had suffered 

 some injuries from rough transit by post. 



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