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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
(except the sub-basal spots and hind-marginal spot of hind-wing, of 
which the latter is more developed than in dull-brownish, the 
whitish ones faint and dull. 
On the upper side this obscurely-tinted Lyccena is not unlike the male of 
the South-European L. Admetus, Esp., but on the under side both the ground- 
colour and pattern are very different. On the whole, L. ignota comes closest 
to L. Letsea, Tiim., but is distinguishable by its darker colouring, and total 
want of yellowish hind-wing lunules on the upper side, and by the very 
imperfect development of the whitish markings on the under side ; it also 
exhibits nothing of the tendency so general in Letsea to imperfection of the 
discal row of spots on the under side of the fore-wing. 
Mr. T. Ayres discovered this butterfly in the Transvaal, and in 1879 the 
South- African Museum obtained from him three examples of each sex. The 
only other specimens that have come under my notice are two males taken 
by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson, who captured them in the interior of Natal, and 
kindly presented them to me in the year 1881. 
Localities of Lyccena ignota. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom and Lydenburg Districts {T. Ayres). 
136. (18.) Lycsena Letsea, Trimen. 
(^,9 Lyccena Letsea, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1870, p. 362, pi. vi., 
ff. 3, 4. 
Exp. al, ($) I in. 3I-4 lin. ; (?) 1 lin. 3^-6 lin. 
^ Shining hwivnish-grey ; cilia slightly paler, not variegated. Fore^ 
tving : a terminal disco-cellular streak sometimes faintly visible. LLind- 
wing : on hind-margin, on each side of the first median nervule, a 
very faint yellowish lunule, forming a ring with a broken hind-mar- 
ginal white line, of which the superior is large, and marked externally 
with a black spot. In two examples these markings are blurred and 
scarcely traceable ; no tail. Under side. — G-7'ey ; ordinary markings 
small and neatly defined, resembling those of L. Messapus, Godt. Fore- 
^oing : loiuer portion of transverse row of white-ringed Uach spots heyond 
middle almost always wanting, the usual number of spots present being 
four (in one example there are but three, while in another there are five, 
with the faint trace of a sixth on one side only). ILind-wing : a faint 
pale-bluish suff*usion over basal portion ; yellow lunules more deeply 
coloured and much better marked than on upper side, the black dot of 
the superior one more or less dusted with silvery-blue. 
$ Similar ; slightly darker ; cilia whiter than in Fore-wing : 
disco-cellular lunule plainer than in but still indistinct. Hind- 
wing : yellow lunules broader and brighter, the black dot strongly 
marked ; in one (the largest) example there is a double row of indis- 
