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tinge ; ^ the palest from Grahamstown and Basutoland ; while those from 
Kaffraria Proper and Natal are intermediate in colour. The oehreous-tinged 
individuals inhabit Malmesbury, N. of the Cape Peninsula, and I also took a 
similar individual in Namaqualand. 
I have met with this butterfly only on the summits and slopes of hills. 
Though not uncommon, it does not exhibit the gregarious tendency of its 
ally, L. Asferis. Though an active insect, it very often settles on low shrubs 
and herbage, and is easily captured. I have met with it from August to 
February, but it is prevalent most from October to December. 
Localities of Lycwna Methymna. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Simon's Town. Malmesbury. 
Bain's Kloof. Spectakel, Namaqualand. 
h Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. Uitenhage (aS'. D. Bairstoio). 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. Boioker). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (J". H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. — Pinetown (/. H. Bowker). 
128. (10.) Lycaena puncticilia, Trimen. 
Plate YIII. fig. 4 ( )• 
Lycoe7ia 2^uncticilia, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 350. 
Exp. at. I in. — I in. 3 J lin. 
Dark-brown, with a slightly brassy surface-gloss ; cilia dark-hvtvn, 
with rather small hut very conspicuous pure-iuhite ijiter-nei^vular spots. 
Hind-wing : in some $ examples, along hind-marginal edge a row of 
inter-nervular minute white spots, only separated from the white spots 
of the cilia by the blackish bounding line. Under side. — Dull ashy- 
hrown ; ordinary discal row of darker white-edged spots indistinct, or 
sometimes obsolete, except for the thin internal white edging ; adjoining 
the conspicuous ivhite sp)ots of cilia is a row of elongate-ovate white rings, 
usually better marked in fore- wing than in hind-wing. Fore-wing : 
dark, white-edged disco-cellular lunule broad, usually quite distinct ; 
spots of discal row confluent into a nearly straight fascia, slightly bent 
inward on median nervules ; beyond discal row, traces of a row of thin 
sharply sagittate white marks ; apical white ring of hind-marginal row 
thicker and more conspicuous than the rest. Hind-iving : first (costal) 
and last (inner-marginal) spots of discal row distinct, ovate, black, 
white-ringed ; other spots of row confluent, suffused, only their internal 
white edges marked ; a sub- basal transverse row of three circular black 
spots in thin white rings ; heyond discal row a conspicuous very sharply 
dentated luhite transverse line, composed of contiguous sagittiform marks ; 
the imperfect hind-marginal ovate ring between second and first 
^ A dwarf male I captured at Wynberg, near Cape Town, expands barely an inch 
across the wings. 
