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marginal black spot, ornamented externally with bluish or greenish- 
silvery and ringed with yellow, larger and much more distinct. 
^ Hot so dark as Asteris, the blue rather paler and more violaceous ; 
the white cilia regularly interrupted with fuscous, more conspicuous 
than in ^ . Fore-wing : disco-cellular spot narrower than in Asteris ; 
blue usually not occupying upper part of discoidal cell, — in one speci- 
men very restricted and indistinct, but crossed discally by a row of 
elongated fuscous spots. Hind-wing : blue less developed externally ; 
discal lunules blunter ; in one specimen two indistinct elongate dark 
discal spots, and in another one spot ; hind-marginal rings indistinct 
and incomplete. Under side. — As in J, but lunules of inner sub- 
marginal row (especially in hind-wing) more acute and elongate. 
I place with this near ally of Asteris, Godt., readily separable by its 
strongly chequered cilia and non-caudate hind-wings, a 9 I captured at 
Mossel Bay in September 1858, which, in the contiguity of the disco-cellular 
mark and the discal row in the fore-wing, and in their actual confluence in 
the hind-wing, as well as in the suffusion of the white markings generally, 
approaches true Asteris, but in other respects agrees with Ortygia. 
I do not know whether this Lyccena is really as scarce as it appears to be. 
Besides the Mossel Bay example just referred to, I have not met with it 
except in the case of a worn straggler near Cape Town ; but two specimens 
from the neighbourhood of Grahamstown were sent to me by Mrs. Barber 
and Mr. H. J. Atherstone. Colonel Bowker, however, found it rather preva- 
lent in Basutoland, and forwarded twelve or thirteen examples captured in 
January 1869, He noted that the butterfly inhabited the tops of hills, and 
that the $ s sat quietly in the grass, not moving unless disturbed, while the 
$ s coursed actively about. Three $ s from the Orange Free State were sent 
to me by Mr. W. Hart at end of 187 1 ; they agreed in all respects with the 
Basutoland examples. 
Localities of Lycmna Ortygia. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Mossel Bay. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown {Mrs. Barber and H. J. Ather- 
stone). 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru and Koro-Koro (/. H. Bowker). 
C. Orange Free State. — Special locality not noted ( W. Hart). 
127. (9.) Lycaena Methymna, Trimen. 
$ Lyccena Methymna, Trim, [part], Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser. 
i. p. 280 (1862). 
S $ Lyccena Celoeus, var., Trim., Bhop. Afr. Aust, ii. p. 248 (1866). 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 2-5 lin. ; ($) i in. 3^-7^ lin. 
$ Glossy dark-brown, greyish-brown or 'warm reddish-ochreous-brown ; 
cilia white, regularly and broadly interrupted with brown. Fore-wing : 
disco-cellular marking very faint and slender, or altogether obsolete \ 
