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SOUTH-AFRICA^^ BUTTEEFLIES. 
paler traversing streak in hind-marginal dark border extremely indis- 
tinct. Hind-wing : lunular wliite marks of inner submarginal row 
acutely sagittiform, more or less shot with blue, farther than usual 
from outer row ; rings formed by those of outer row with hind-marginal 
whitish line rather indistinct ; black spot and adjoining orange-yellow 
lunule better marked than in $ (in one example a second much fainter 
orange lunule between second and third median nervules). Under side. 
— As in $ ; hind-marginal white line wider, rather suffused. 
The $ of this beautiful Lyccena is well characterised by the glossy 
shining surface of its blue upper side, which in tint is almost identical with 
that of L. patricia. As shown by the features of the under side in both 
sexes emphasised in the above description, Caffrarice diverges from the Par- 
simon group and approximates more towards Aster is, Godt. , — a tendency also 
indicated in the darker upper side of the female. 
I have not seen many specimens of this form. Colonel Bowker forwarded 
a few from Kaffraria Proper in 1863 or 1864, and a single male from King 
William's Town in 1872. In January and February 1870 I met with several 
of both sexes in the Albany District of Cape Colony. They frequented 
the most elevated hills, flying with some swiftness over the bushes and 
herbage. 
Localities of Lycmna Caffrarice. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. — Grahamstown, New Year's Biver, and Zwaart- 
water's Poort, Albany District. King William's Town (/. H. 
Boioker). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee Biver (/. H. Boioker). 
125. (7.) Lycaena Asteris, (Godart). 
Plate YIIL figs. 3 (c?), 3^(9). 
$ $ Polyommatus Asteris, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 657, n. 137 (18 19). 
Lyccena Celceus, Trim, [part], Bhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 247, n. 148 (1866.) 
Uxp. al, ($) I in. 6-7^ lin. ; ($) I in. 7^-9 lin. 
J JDark violaceous hlue ; a hlackish liind-niarginal border^ continuous 
and rather narroiv in fore-iving {rarely traversed close to its outer edge hy 
a slender white line), macidar or submacidar in hind-ioing ; cilia white, 
narrowly fuscous near origin, in fore-ioing somewhat irregidarly mixed 
with fuscous, in hind-wing incompletely interrupted vjith fuscous at ex- 
tremities of nervides. Fore-wing : terminal disco-cellular fuscous lunule 
slender, rarely indistinct ; costa very narrowly edged with fuscous. 
Hind-iving : costa bordered with fuscous above first subcostal nervule, 
and apical area as far as second subcostal nervure ; macule of hind- 
marginal border relieved by more or less complete rings of bluish- 
white ; spot between first and second median nervules rather larger 
than the rest, black, inwardly edged by a faint, usually imperfect, thin, 
yellow lunule ; tail on first median nervule extremely short, black. 
Undek side. — Pc^le grcyish-hroivn, darker in hind-wing ; disco-cellular 
