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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — Victoria County. D'XJrban (/. H. Bowker). 
h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). Mooi River 
{W. Morant). 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay (the late Colonel H. Tower). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District {T. Ayres). 
134. (16.) Lycaena Tantalus, sp. nov. 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 4-5I lin. 
Dull pale-violaceous ; a narrow hrownish-fuscous hind -marginal bor- 
der, — in hind-iving rather loider, indenting violaceous hetween nervules ; 
cilia dingy-ivhitish, uniform. Fore-wing : terminal disco-cellular fus- 
cous mark linear, not very distinct. Hind-wing : costa bordered with 
fuscous-grey as far as subcostal nervure and its first nervule ; no hind- 
marginal spot, or only the faintest trace of one ; no tail. Under side. 
— Pale or whitish-grey ^ sometimes with a faint brownish tinge ; all the 
markings linear or much attenuated ; in each wing a linear disco-cellular 
terminal marking, a discal row of dark spots, a suhmarginal regular 
lunulated dark streaky and a hind-marginal series of very indistinct 
dark spots; 07i hincl-margincd edge a seines of very small dark spots, 
adjacent to which the cilia are also dark. Fore-wing : disco-cellular 
mark and discal row black ; in the latter the third spot is obliquely 
placed, its lower end inclining outward, and the fifth (between first 
and second median nervules) is before the rest ; submarginal lunulate 
streak blackish on both sides, edged faintly and sufFusedly with whitish, 
and regularly interrupted by nervules ; disco-cellular mark and discal 
row (except first and last spots, which are black) dull-brown ; in the 
latter the brown spots are sublunulate, the second spot being separate, 
and the sixth and eighth nearer base than the fifth and seventh spots ; 
submarginal lunulate streak also brown, its component lunules larger 
than in fore-wing, and the first and second of them sej)arate both from 
each other and from the rest. 
$ Pale shining-blue not violaceous — duller and less developed in 
hind- wing, — with broad dull fuscous borders. Fore-wing : border of 
about even width throughout, from base to apex, and from apex to 
posterior angle ; terminal disco-cellular lunule very much broader and 
darker than in Hind-iving : blue only thinly covers lower area 
from base to beyond middle, leaving a very broad costal fuscous border, 
and a moderately broad hind marginal one ; in the latter a series of 
blue spots, of which that between first and second median nervules is 
large and conspicuous, but the rest are very small, indistinct, and lunu- 
late. Under side.' — As in ^, but the markings more sharply defined. 
The ^ of this species on the upper side is intermediate in tint, &c., 
between the s of Hypopolia, mihi, and Niohe, mihi, but is rather nearer to 
