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SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 
broader, more acute than those of outer row, which form more or less 
incomplete rings with a whitish line immediately before hind-margin ; 
spot between first and second median nervules, on hind-margin, con- 
spicuous, marked externally with brilliant greenish-silvery, and bounded 
inwardly by a yellow lunule ; usually the traces of a similar imperfect 
spot at anal angle. 
$ Violaceous paler, duller, restricted to a suffusion from bases, over 
celhdar, iimer-marginal, and lower-discal areas ; hroionisli-fuscous border 
of fore-wing very broad, especially apically ; that of hind-wing also very 
broad costally and apically. Fore-wing : a linear fuscous terminal disco- 
cellular mark. Hind-wing : hind-marginal spots better marked, incon- 
spicuously ringed with dingy- whitish ; spot between first and second 
median nervules inwardly bounded by a very dull yellow lunule. 
Under side. — As in ^, but the whitish edgings of the markings 
better defined. 
Although so much larger and darker an insect, this species shows distinct 
alliance to L. Messapus, Godt., in the character of the under-side markings. 
Only six males and a single female have come under my notice, — all from the 
eastern side of South Africa, and four of them from the upper districts of 
Natal. Of the habits of this butterfly I have no information j it is probably 
inconspicuous on the wing. 
Localities of Lycmna dolorosa, 
I. South Africa. 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee Eiver (/. H. Boioker). 
E. Katal. 
b. Upper Districts. Estcourt M. Hutchinson). Biggarsberg 
\j. H. Boicher). Blue Bank near the Drakensberg {W. 
Movant). 
F. Zululand. — Napoleon Yalley {J. H. Boiuker). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District {T. Ayres). 
138. (20.) LycaBna Messapus, (Godart). 
$ Polyommatus Messapus, Godt, Enc. Meth., ix. p. 682, n. 205 (1819). 
Polyommatus Sebagadis, Guer., Lefvr. Voy. Abyss., vi. p. 385, pi. 11, ff. 
7, 8 (1847). ^ ^ 
^ Lyccena Acca, Westw., Gen. D. Lep., pi. Ixxvi. f. i (1852). 
$ $ Lyccena Messapus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 254, n. 155 (1866). 
Exp. al, {$) 8-1 1 J lin. ; ($) 9i lin.— i in. 
J Blue-violaceous, with a nai-row blackish hind-marginal border; 
cilia greyish, ivhitish externally. Hind-iving : a hind-marginal black 
spot between second and first median nervules (sometimes nearly obso- 
lete), usually inwardly edged by an orange lunule ; no tail. Under 
SIDE. — Pale broivnish-grey ; in each wing, — a streak closing cell (in 
fore-wing blackish, in hind-wing of the ground-colour) whitish-edged 
on both sides, — a row of white-ringed spots beyond middle (in fore- 
