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usually extending (less thickly) as far as hind-margin ; white lunules 
of outer submarginal row thinner and less conspicuous ; terminal 
disco-cellular lunule usually indistinct. Under side. — As in 
This species is so intimately allied to L. Farsimon, Fab., that I should 
not have separated it except for the extraordinary difference of colouring in the 
^ s ; the species named having the upper side of an uniform brownish-grey 
without a trace of blue, while L. jpatricia has it all light violaceous -blue 
except along the extreme costal and hind-marginal borders. The longer tail 
on the hind-wings is, however, characteristic of Patricia. A $ from Zululand 
is of a purer, more shining blue upper side than usual, but does not present any 
other differences. A ? from Estcourt, Natal, is darker than usual above, and 
the blue is less violaceous, occupies a smaller area in the fore-wings, and is 
almost obsolete in the hind- wings. In a and 9 from the Transvaal, the 
under side is darker than usual, and the submarginal markings are unusually 
faint ; the $ is also very obscure on the upper side, with the blue much 
reduced in both wings, and with an indistinct short discal row of very small 
fuscous spots. One of the two $ s kindly sent to me as typical Asteris, 
Wallengr., by Mr. Chr. Aurivillius from the State Museum at Stockholm, 
belonged distinctly to this form, only differing in a broader terminal, disco- 
cellular lunule on the upper side of the fore- wings. ^ 
In the Transvaal, Mr. W. Morant took this Lycmna early in October 
1870; and Wallengren {loc. cit) mentions that Mr. Person took, in the 
same country, during that month, what is described as the $ Parsimon, but 
appears to be the ^ Patricia. 
Localities of Lyccena ^atricia. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage (S. D. Bairstoiv). 
c. Griqualand West.— Klipdrift, Yaal River {J. H. Boivher). 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru {J. H. Bowher). 
D. Kaffraria Proper.— Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (/. H. Boivher). 
E. Natal. ^ 
h. Upper Districts.— Estcourt {J. M. Hutchinson). 
F. Zululand.— Napoleon Valley (/. H. Botuker). 
K. Transvaal.— Potchefstroom District (T. Ai/res). Pretoria (IF. 
Morafit). ^ ' 
123. (5.) LycaGna glauca, sp. nov. 
Lyccena Asteris, Walhngv. , part], K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl, 1857, 
n. 12. 
Uxp. al, {$) I in. 7-9 lin.; ($) i in. 6i-io lin. 
? Glittering silvery-hlue, with a slight greenish gloss (in tint inter- 
mediate between upper sides of Z. Corydon, Scop., and Daphnis, W. 
v.); a very narrow fuscous hind-marginal edging, linear in hind- 
^ It is possible that Lymna Negus, Felder, of which I only know the figures (Nos. i and 
2) on t. XXXV. vol. ii. of the Lepidoptera of the Reise der Novara, may be the ? of L. patricia. 
It IS, however, smaller than usual, and the blue suffusion is represented as stopping short of 
the outer disc of the fore-wings. The under side is quite like that of Patricia, except 
that the third (inner-marginal) spot of the sub-basal row on the hind-wings is not given. 
The locality noted for it is Bogos, in North-Eastern Africa. 
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