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Ayres almost simultaneously sent me specimens from the Potchefstroom Dis- 
trict j and fine examples from Natal and Zululand have more recently been 
contributed by Mr. J. M. Hutchinson .and Colonel Bowker. The species 
extends into the Tropical Regions, occurring in Damaraland on the west, and 
centrally in the Bamangwato country. Mr. Morant noted the capture of a 
$ in the Free State at the end of December, and Colonel Bowker that of a 
^ on the Natal coast on 27 th April. 
Localities of Lyccena Mahallokoce7ia. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. Boivher). 
C. Orange Free State. — Yaal River ( W. Morant). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — Isipingo, D'Urban, and Pinetown (/. H. 
Boivker). 
h. Upper Districts, — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). Between Tuegla 
and Mooi Rivers, Rorke's Drift, and Biggarsberg (/. H. 
BowTcer). Colenso {W. Morant). 
F. Zululand. — Isandhlwana and Napoleon Yalley (J". Bowker). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenfo Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 
K.Transvaal. — Potchefstroom (TF. Morant and T. Ayres). Pretoria 
( W. Morant). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — " Damaraland {Du Vylder).^^ — Aurivillies. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — Bamangwato Country [H. Barber). Tau- 
wani River {F. G. Selous). 
140. (22.) Lycaena Lysimon, (Hiibner). 
S Papilio Lysimon, Hiibn., Samml. Europ. Schmett., ff. 534-35 (1798 ?). 
» "Ochs., Schmett. Europ., i. 2, p. 24 (1808)." 
9 Polyommatus Lysimon, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 701, n. 24.0 
(1819). 
c?, 9 Lyccena Lysimon, Herr.-Schff., Schmett. Eur., i. p. 118, t. 5, ff. 28, 
29 (1843). 
^ , $ Lyccena Knysna, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd. Ser., i. p. 282 
(1862); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 255, n. 156 (1866). 
Ex^p. al, {$) 9-io\ lin. ; ($) 10^ lin.— i in. 0^ lin. 
$ Dull-violet, with a silky gloss ; hind-margin of both wings rather 
widely bordered with blackish ; cilia broad, whitish ; no tail on hind- 
wing. Fore-wing: costa very narrowly edged with a white line. 
Under side. — Whitish-grey; ocelli blackish, whitish- ringed ; in both 
wings, a sinuate row of ocelli strongly curved superiorly, beyond 
middle, a whitish-edged fuscous streak closing discoidal cell, a distinct 
ocellus in cell (sometimes an indistinct ocellus below it), two sub- 
marginal rows of pale-fuscous, indistinctly whitish-edged, lunular 
spots,— and a thin blackish edging line, interiorly faintly whitish- 
