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reached me from widely-distant localities, but I do not know of any place 
where it occurs in any abundance. Specimens sent from Burghersdorp, in 
the north-east of the Cape Colony, by Dr. Kannemeyer, are darker than usual 
on the upper side, and have the under-side pattern very strongly marked. 
Localities of Lycxna Trockilus, 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Robertson. 
I). Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth (J. L. Fry), New Year's 
River, Albany District {Mrs. Barber). Burghersdorp {D. R. 
Kannemeyer). 
c. Griqualand West. — Yaal River {J. H. Boivker). 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru (/. H. Bowker). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River {J. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
I). Upper Districts. — Great Noodsberg. Biggarsberg and Rorke's 
Drift {J. H. Bowker). 
F. Zululand. — Napoleon Valley (/. H. Boivker). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenfo Marques [Mrs. Monteiro). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom [T. Ayres). 
11. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland : "River Kuisip [Widdherg).^^ — 
Wallengren. 
B. North Tropical. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — White Nile. — Coll. Hewitson in Brit. Mus. 
C. Extra-Tropical North Africa. — Egypt. — Coll. Hewitson in Brit. 
Mus. 
III. Asia. 
A. Southern Region. — " Asia Minor and North Persia." — Staudinger. 
IV. Europe. — "Turkey." — Doubleday, Herrich-Sclialfer, &c. "Balkan 
Mountains. " — Staudinger. 
145. (27.) Lycaena MetopMs, Wallengren. 
Lycoina Iletophis, Wallengr., Wien. Ent. Monatsclir., i860, p. 37, n. 17 ; 
and K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Fiirhandl,, 1872, p. 48, n. 21.^ 
Uxp. al., (?) 7-;| lin. ; ($) 9-9L lin. 
J Didl-hrozun, ]jaler and tinged luith greyish hasally ; cilia white, in 
fore-wing very hroadly, in hind-iving extremely narrowly, interrupted 
luith dark-hrowii at extremities of ncrvules ; hind-wing tailless. Fore- 
wing : brown interruptions of cilia at extremities of first and second 
median nervules exceedingly broad, almost uniting. Hind-iving : a 
hind-marginal series of four small internervular blackish spots, of 
1 Through the kind assistance of Prof. Chr. Aurivillius, of the Royal Swedish Museum 
in Stockhohn, I was enabled to obtain a careful coloured drawing of the type of this species, 
and so more satisfactorily to determine the distinctness of Mctophis from my more recently 
named close ally, L. Barlerce.i 
