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SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
separated into spots in fore-wing, and wanting the eighth (inner- 
marginal) spot in hind- wing. Hind-iving : the lower (anal-angular) of 
two hind-marginal spots obsolete, or nearly so, but some of the greenish- 
silvery scales and part of the orange-yellow lunule present. 
The under side in both sexes, but especially in the is some- 
times very obscurely marked, the white markings being faint, and the 
three sub-basal spots and first spot of discal row in the hind-wing 
scarcely darker than the rest. 
As Mr. A. G. Butler has remarked {Aim. and Mag. Ned. Hist., 1875, 
p. 397), Osiris, Hopff., appears to be the African representative of the Indian 
and Javan Cnejus, Fab. {Suppl. Ent. Syst., p. 430, 1798). On comparing speci- 
mens from Natal and Delagoa Bay with the Javan 9 in the Horsfield Col- 
lection in the British Museum, I could detect little difference, except that 
the under-side markings of the Osiris $ s were all rather wider and less 
constricted. 
Hopffer founded the species on a single $ from Querimba. In February 
and March 1867 I met with a few examples of both sexes on the coast of 
ISTatal. Colonel Bowker in June 1880 sent me the paired sexes taken at 
D'Urban. Both sexes of this pair were remarkably obscure in the under- 
side markings, but the 9 more so than the ^ . The specimens that I took 
frequented long grass in sheltered spots. 
Localities of Lyccena Osiris. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Avoca and Pinetown 
{JF. Morant). 
F. Zululand. — St, Lucia Bay {flie late Colonel H. Toiver). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Hewitson Coll., Brit. Mus. 
K. Transvaal. — Pretoria (W. Morant). Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
h. East Coast. — " Querimba." — Hopffer. 
120. (2.) Lycaena Asopus, Hopffer. 
$ 9 Lyccena Asopus, Hopff., " Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch., 
1855, p. 642, n. 22 j" and Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 410, 
pi. xxvi. ff. 13-15 (1862). 
9 Lyccena Kama, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., Ser. iii., i., p. 403 
(1862). 
9 Lyccena Asopus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 249, n. 149 (1866). 
Exp. al., ($) I in.— I in. 2^ lin. ; ($) i in. 1-3 lin. 
$ Pah hrownislh-grey, rather variable in depth of tint, sliglitly p)aler 
discally ; on hind-marginal edge a fuscous line ; cilia whitish- grey ; hind- 
luing with two snhmarginal rows of vjhite lunules ; no tail. Fore-wing : 
a faint, dusky, narrow, terminal disco-cellular lunule ; near posterior 
angle some very indistinct traces of a hind-marginal series of whitish 
