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wliicli tlie two next anal angle are often immediately preceded by- 
two minute wliitisli spots. Under side. — Fale greyish-hroivn ; mark- 
ings mostly of the ground-colour, hut their luhite edgings luell defined, 
Fore-iuing : disco-cellular terminal lunule broad, subreniform ; discal 
row of six imperfect annulets between subcostal and submedian ner- 
vures, highly irregular, — the second and fourth projecting beyond the 
rest, and the sixth considerably before them (so as to be in a line 
with terminal cellular marking) ; two submarginal rows of thin white 
lunulate marks, of which the lowest in each row is larger than the 
rest — so that the two partly unite ; a dull whitish hind-marginal line 
(becoming pure- white and wider at its lower extremity), succeeded by 
a brown line. Hind-wing : a sub-basal series of three to four united 
rather large white annulets, of which that next costa is oval and much 
the largest ; a broad terminal disco- cellular marking, with both white 
edges rather suffused ; discal series of very imperfect more or less 
confluent annulets highly irregular, — the second annulet being only 
partly beyond, and immediately above, terminal disco-cellular marking, 
while the third is far beyond the second, and the first of a continuous 
but irregular series of six, terminating on inner margin ; between 
second subcostal and first median nervules, a hind-marginal series of 
four distinct round black spots, each containing a large crescent of 
glittering greenish-golden scales, surrounded by a whitish ring, and 
preceded at a little distance by a more or less suffused whitish 
lunule ; traces of two similarly coloured spots near apex (the second 
immediately preceded by a rather large and conspicuous whitish spot), 
and more distinct traces of another at anal angle ; cilia dark-brown at 
its origin. 
Similar ; on upper side paler. Under side. — As in 
This species was discovered by Wahlberg close to Walvisch Bay, in 
Damaraland, but has since been found to inhabit many localities in Extra- 
Tropical South Africa. It differs from L. Trochilus, Frey, in its smaller 
size, white cilia interrupted with brown, and want of orange lunules in the 
hind- wings ; while its under side is darker, much more irregularly marked, 
without black centres to any of the ordinary spots, and with never less than 
four jewelled spots on the hind-margin of the hind- wings. Metoj)Ms is, how- 
ever, much nearer to a Lijcoena from Ceylon in the British Museum, labelled 
" L. Ohinga " (but which has not, I believe, been described), and to the Cali- 
fornian L. exilis, Boisd. It differs from both in its broad white cilia inter- 
rupted with brown, and from the Californian species in wanting a bluish 
suffusion at the bases of the wings on the upper side and a shining reddish 
suffusion over the outer half of the fore-wings on the under side. 
I have met with this beautiful little butterfly only at Robertson, in the 
Cape Colony, where in January 1876 I captured a few specimens flitting 
about close to the ground on the dry hill-sides. Colonel Bowker has forwarded 
examples from the north and north-east of the Cape Colony, Mr. E. G. Alston 
from the north central, and Mr. L. P^ringuey from the north-west. The latter 
found it generally distributed in Namaqualand, though local in its haunts, 
and collected in that district and the adjoining one of Clanwilliam twenty- 
four specimens. I am not aware of its occurrence near the east of the Cape 
