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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
lunules ; and a single small ocellus in discoidal cell. Hind-ioing : 
base dusted with blackish and bluish scales ; an ocellus near base, 
just below subcostal nervure and another on inner margin before 
middle ; orange lunules paler, black spot marked outwardly with 
some bluish-silvery scales. 
$ Blue paler ^ less violaceous, than in $. Fore-wing : costa, apex, 
and hind-margin very broadly bordered with greyish-brown ; a bluish 
or whitish mark on hind-margin immediately above posterior angle. 
Hind-wing : costal half of wing greyish-brown, some small outwardly 
whitish-edged fuscous lunules along hind-margin ; orange lunules paler 
and larger than in more or less confluent, black spot larger. 
Under side. — Quite like that of $ ; spots larger, more conspicuous. 
On the under side, in both sexes, the two rows of whitish sub- 
marginal lunules are very ill-defined, and the lower ones of the inner 
row of the fore-wing much suffused inwardly, while the lowest lunule 
of the outer row is suffused outwardly and united with a hind-marginal 
whitish line. The space between the two rows of whitish lunules is 
enlarged and fuscous below third median nervule in the fore-wing ; 
and the three lower spots of the discal row are considerably larger than 
the other three and more irregular in form. In the hind-wing the 
discal spots are often exceedingly small and rather indistinct, and the 
lunules of the inner submarginal row much prolonged inwardly. 
A dwarf $ which I captured at Highlands, near Grahamstown, 
expands scarcely above an inch across the wings. 
In the Hope Museum at Oxford in 1867 I noted a $ from Sierra Leone 
in which the discs of the fore-wings were suffused with white. Another ? 
from the Transvaal presents the same suffusion in both fore and hind wings ; 
and some of the same sex which I took in Natal exhibit it in a less degree. 
The only near ally of L. Cissus known to me is the considerably smaller 
and tailed L. Johates, Hopff. The former is a handsome species, very pre- 
valent in the Eastern parts of South Africa, and ranging widely to distant 
points in the African continent. It frequents hillsides, fields, and open 
ground, and has a low, short flight, keeping mostly about grassy spots. In 
the Cape Colony and Natal I have met with it commonly from the middle 
of October to the beginning of April. 
Localities of Lycxna Cissus. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Knysna. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown. Kowie River Mouth, 
Bathurst District (/. L. Fry). King William's Town ( W. S. 
M. U Urban). 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. Bowher). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Butterworth and Bashee River (/. H. Bowher). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts.— D 'Urban {M. J. M'Ken). Verulam. Itongati 
River. Umvoti. Mapumulo. 
