LYC^NID^. 
II. Other African Kegions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Kinsembo, Congo {W. Doncaster). Angola. — 
Coll. Brit. Mus. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Gaboon. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 
124. (6.) Lycaena Caffrariae, sp. nov. 
^ $ Lyccena Asteris, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 247, n. 148 
(1866). 
Hxp. al, ($) I in. 6-7I lin. ; ($) I in. 6-9 lin. 
J Glittering pale violaceous-blue, with a slight pinkish tinge ; narrow 
blackish hind-marginal edging, linear in hind-iving and at posterior 
angle of fore-wing ; cilia whiter than in L. glauca or L. patricia, espe- 
cially in hind-iving. Fore-iuing : terminal disco-cellular mark linear, 
faintly marked, or nearly obsolete ; costa very thinly edged with greyish- 
fuscous, radiating on subcostal nervules. Hind-iving : costa bordered 
with dull- greyish above first subcostal nervule ; just before hind-margin 
from apex, a parallel fuscous streak, becoming widely broken into small, 
more or less indistinct spots, below second subcostal nervule ; black 
hind-marginal spot between first and second median nervules, inwardly 
bounded by an inconspicuous rather pale ochrey-yellow lunule ; often 
traces of a smaller similar spot below first median nervule ; tail short, 
edged and tipped with white. Under side. — Brownish-grey ; trans- 
verse markings darker, conspicuously edged with white on both sides. 
Fore-wing : terminal disco-cellular mark moderately wide, reniform ; 
in discal row two lowest spots smaller than the rest, and third spot 
sometimes prolonged inwardly, so as to touch disco-cellular mark ; 
outer white edge of discal roiu fused with inner submarginal roiv of tvhite 
lunules ; outer submarginal row constituting an almost straight and con- 
tinuous denticulated streak. Hind-wing : a sub-basal row of four small 
black-ringed spots (of which the third, between median and submedian 
nervures, is sometimes wanting) ; first and last spots of discal row also 
black, small, white-ringed, but the rest enlarged and confluent, and the 
second and third spots prolonged inwardly, and either confluent with or 
touching the long, curved, 7iarrow, terminal, disco-cellular mark ; outer 
white edge of discal row more or less completely confluent with suffused 
sagittiform lunules of inner submarginal row ; rings formed by lunules 
of outer row with hind-marginal white line complete, but thin, and 
pointed on inner side ; hind-marginal black spot outwardly spangled 
with bluish-silvery, the lunule inwardly bounding it thin, pointed, in- 
conspicuous, pale-yellow. 
$ Resembling the % FatiHcia, but darker ; the blue suffusion more 
glittering, but less extended outwardly. Fore-iving : terminal disco-cel- 
lular dark spot conspicuous and well developed, but not quite so broad ; 
