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white tips throughout; no tail on hind-wing. Under side. — Dushy 
hrownish-grey ; ocelliform spots Hack, with pah-grey rings, arranged as 
in L. Cissies, but no ocellus in discoidal cell of fore-wing, and the outer 
row of spots hardly visible on either wing ; space hetween the two rows 
marked hy a lunulate hoary-greyish hand ; close to hind -margin a row 
of very indistinct, darker, lunular spots. Hind-wing : between second 
and first median nervules, close to hind-margin, a narrow, blackish 
dot, tipped with ferruginous internally, with greyish-blue externally ; 
row of discal ocelli interrupted, in one specimen nearly obliterated 
inferiorly. 
$ Violet Irighter and letter defined than in forming a patch on 
inner-marginal half of both wings, rising very little above median ner- 
vure, and extending a little beyond middle. Under side. — As in J ; 
spots more conspicuous, especially that on hind-margin between second 
and first median nervules of hind-wing, in which the ferruginous and 
blue colouring is distinct. 
This is a variable species. Specimens from Grahamstown agree 
with those above described from Knysna, Cape Colony, except in their 
larger size, but examples from Kaffraria Proper differ — in the ? by a 
purer (not cupreous) violet upper side and a darker hind-marginal 
border, and in the $ by the entire absence of violet, the upper side 
being wholly reddish-brown, except for a very slight bluish tinge near 
the bases. In Natal the ^ s agree with the Kaflfrarian specimens ; but 
of the two $ s I have seen, the smaller has only a very small space of 
basi-inner-marginal rather bright blue, while the other has all the sur- 
face, except the broad borders, shot with bright shining-blue. 
A constant and conspicuous distinguishing character of JSfiohe is the 
whitish band across the under side, just beyond the discal row of spots, 
formed by the inner row of submarginal lunules, in contrast with the 
dusky-grey ground-colour preceding it, and especially with a dark 
streak immediately succeeding it. 
I founded this species on three examples captured by myself at Knysna 
in October and March 1858. They were flitting about grass and low plants 
on the hill-sides, and looked like some small dark Satyrince. The butterfly 
was afterwards shown to have a wide range to the eastward and northward, 
but it seems to be nowhere numerous. I took a single specimen on the coast 
of Victoria County, Natal, in March 1867; and in February 1870 Mr. H. 
Barber captured a very fine 9 near Grahamstown. 
Localities of Lyccena Niohe. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Knysna. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown {M. E. and H. Bai'her), 
d. Basutoland. — Koro Koro {J. H. Boivker). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee Kiver (/. H. Boivker). 
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