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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
median nervules is often filled with, blackisli, centred with a few bluish- 
white scales. 
A single ^ varies from the rest in possessing on the upper side of 
the hind-wing a row of four indistinct, small, whitish spots not far 
from hind-margin, between costa and third median nervule. 
A close ally of L. Metliymna^ mihi, but distinguished from it by 
the following characters, viz. : — (i) The darker upper side, without any 
reddish tinge; (2) constant absence on upper side of fore-wing of 
disco-cellular lunule ; (3) darker, more ashy under side, with. (4) 
less distinct and less macular discal row; (5) more elongate and dis- 
tinctly defined white rings of hind-marginal row ; and (6) in hind- 
wing, much more conspicuous and acutely dentated white transverse 
line beyond discal row. 
The only example of this butterfly with which for many years I was 
acquainted was collected at Genadendal in the Caledon Division, about 1863- 
1864, and was regarded as a variation of Methymna. In the year 1869 
(September) I met with another individual flying in company with several of 
Methymria at Malmesbury, about thirty-five miles northward of Cape Town. 
It was not until September 1879 that, in company with Colonel Bowker, I 
found the insect common near the village of Malmesbury, and also at Rie- 
beck's Casteel in the Malmesbury District. We captured about thirty speci- 
mens, and found them all to agree in the main characters above described. 
This Lycoena flits about, and frequently settles upon, low shrubby plants on 
rocky kopjes and hillsides. On the wing it looks almost black. 
Localities of Lyccena puncticilia. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Malmesbury. Riebeck's Casteel, Malmes- 
bury District. Genadendal, Caledon District {G. Hettarsch). 
129. (11.) Lycsena hypopolia, sp. nov. 
Exp. al, {$) I in. 6-7 lin. 
J Dull pale-violaceous ; a rather narrow hrownish-fuscous hind-mar- 
ginal border emitting short inter -nervular rays ; cilia dull-white, uniform. 
Fore-iuing : a rather narrow but distinct terminal disco-cellular fus- 
cous lunule. Hind-ioing: costa broadly bordered with brownish fuscous, 
wider about apex ; between first and second median nervules a small 
and narrow black spot close to hind-margin, inwardly bounded by a 
suff'used pale-yellow lunule, and marked centrally with a few bluish 
scales ; no tail. Under side. — Hoary grey ; in each luing terminal 
disco-cellular lunule, discal macular roiv {except first and last spots, which 
are small and black), and indistinct row of submarginal lunules, dull 
ochrey-yelloio with whitish edges. Fore-wing : discal row in two ex- 
