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SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
along hind-margin the edging white line unites with an inner row 
of white liinules to enclose a series of dark-brown spots, — the spot 
between second and first median nervules being, as in black, with 
an inward-bounding orange lunule. Under side. — As in 
This is a very isolated species, not resembling closely any congener 
known to me. It is strikingly distinguished by the white apex of the 
fore-wings in the ^ , forcibly contrasting with the dark-brown ground- 
colour, and in both sexes by the whiteness of the under side and its very 
small spots. The pattern and character of the under-side markings perhaps 
more nearly resemble those of the untailed L. Messajnis, Godt., and Mahal- 
lolwcena, Wallengr., than those of any other species. On the upper side the 
$ Hippocrates is in pattern and colouring something like the 9 s of the much 
larger Asopus, Hopffer, and Johates, Hopffer. 
The first example known to me as South-African was taken in Zululand 
by the late Colonel H. Tower in 1866. All the others I have seen — thirteen 
examples — were captured by Colonel Bowker on the coast of Natal, chiefly 
in the years 1879 and 1880, the paired sexes being secured on 30th May 
1880. Concerning these latter specimens, he wrote that the two were at 
rest on a creeper in the Park at D' Urban, and that it was the white tips of 
the fore-wings of the male which attracted his attention. The species was 
found by the same observer very numerously on the edge of the bush near 
the mouth of the Umlaas River on the 8th June. 
A $ specimen from Sherboro Island, near Sierra Leone, in the collection 
of the British Museum, does not differ from southern examples except in 
its slightly larger size. 
Localities of Lyccena Hippocrates. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — Mouth of Umlaazi, D'Urban, and Pinetown 
(/. H. Boivl-er). 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel H. Tower). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren9o Marques [Mrs. Monteiro). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast.—" Angola."— W. F. Kirby, Cat. Hewits. Coll. 
hh. Eastern Islands. — Madagascar." — Oberthiir. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Sherboro Island, near Sierra Leone {C. S. 
Sal77ii7i).—Co\l Brit. Mus. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — "Abyssinia : Shoa (Antinori)^^ — Oberthiir. 
133. (15.) Lycaena Niobe, Trimen. 
^ 9 Lyccena Niohe, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 3rd Ser. i p. 282 
(1862); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 253, n. 154, pi. 4, f. 10 [ $ ]. 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 0I-4 lin. ; (?) i in. 0^—6 lin. 
$ Dull cupreous- violaceous ; hase narrowly purplish, and hind-margin 
rather widely bordered with reddish-brown in both wings; spotless ; cilia 
broionish in fore-wing, but white at apex, in hind-iving brownish, with 
