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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
This LyccBua on tlie upper side most resembles L. ignota, Trim., 
bat is much darker, and presents no trace of the ordinary hind- 
marginal spot near the anal angle of the hind-wings ; moreover, the 
pure white of its cilia makes a conspicuous distinction. This last 
feature gives it something of the aspect of L. Ifethymna, Trim., but the 
broad nervular interruptions of brown, so constant in the latter variable 
species, are wanting. On the under side Pephredo differs altogether 
from Ignota^ as well in its ashy-grey ground- tint as in the remarkable 
development of its discal white band and the irregular obsolescence or 
failure of many of its ordinary markings. It looks, indeed, like a 
" sport" of Niohe^ Trim., and as such I should probably have regarded 
any solitary example, until further material had demonstrated that the 
upper side was the same in both sexes, and dark greyish-brown instead 
of violaceous in the and varying from violaceous to reddish-brown in 
the $. 
I owe the knowledge of this addition to the South-African butter- 
fly fauna to Mr. C. W. Morrison, who, in October and December 1888, 
most kindly sent me from Estcourt, Natal, the five $ s and one $ of 
which I have given the above description. Mr. Morrison informs me 
that he took about a dozen of this species, and that it had a more sus- 
tained flight and was more wary than L. Methymna, which occurred in 
the same locality. 
Locality of Lyccena Pephredo. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt {C. W. Morrison). 
Genus LYC^NESTHES. 
386. (7.) Lycaenesthes Mahota, H. G. Smith. 
Lyccenestlies Mahota, II. G. Smith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th Ser., xix. 
p. 65 (1887). 
Ujoper side. — Both wings orange-brown. Anterior wings with 
the base, costal margin, the upper part of the cell, and the exterior 
margin broadly dark-brown. Posterior wings with the base, the costal, 
exterior, and inner margins, two spots near the anal angle, and an 
interrupted submarginal line dark-brown. 
" Under side. — Both wings greyish-brown, lighter in the middle, 
with the orange colour showing through, crossed with several bands of 
white and two white submarginal lines. Posterior wings with two 
spots near the anal angle, both irrorated with silver, the spot farthest 
from the angle bordered on three sides with orange. 
"Expanse inch." 
Mr. Smith kindly showed me his types of this species, and I ascer- 
