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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERELIES. 
streaked with fine white irregular transverse lines to beyond the middle. 
There are no tails on the hind- wings. The markings are very similar on the 
whole to those of Lyccenestlies Liodes, and the colour of the upper side is also 
very like that in the species named. In the possession of a short fascia on 
the under side of the fore-wing crossing the middle of the discoidal cell, 
Sichela resembles Boetica^ Linn., and Notohia, Tsomo^ and Noquasa, mihi. 
In both sexes of Sichela, the first median nervule of the fore-wing is strongly 
curved downward near its origin. 
Most of Colonel Bowker's specimens were taken in January, on a hill 
close to the TJmgeni Railway Station near D'Urban. He noted that the 
insect settled on bare twigs. In October 1879 Colonel Bowker sent me a 
worn 9 taken by him, towards the end of the month, at Port Elizabeth. 
Both sexes vary greatly in size. 
Localities of Lycmna Sicliela, 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth (J". II. Boivlcer). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban and Pinetown (/. H. Bowker). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 
K. Transvaal. — Crocodile (Limpopo) River (//. Barber). 
149. (3L) LycaBna Notobia, Trimen. 
Plate YIII., ff . 6 ( ), 6a. ( ? ). 
(J, $ Lyr-oena Notohia, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 91. 
Exp. al, Q) I I lin.— I in. 2^ lin. ; ($) i in. — i in. 2^ lin. 
J SJiining opalescent- violaceous, rather pale ; a very narrow hind- 
marginal fnscous-brown horder ; cilia hroad, fuscous-hroivn^ with narrow 
white inter-nervular interruptions ivell-defined and conspicuous in fore- 
wing, hut rather suffused and ill-defined in hind-wing. Hind-wing : 
a small very faint hind-marginal fuscous spot between first and second 
median nervules. No tail. Under side. — Broivnish-grey, with a yellow- 
ish tinge ; in each loing the terminal disco-cellidar striola, and discal suh- 
macular fascia, except for their darker margins, are of the ground-colour, 
hut edged rather conspicuously luith ivhite. Fore-wing : across middle 
of discoidal cell a white-edged broad striola like that at extremity; 
the latter with its outer white edging prolonged as far as second or 
first median nervule; macular discal band broad (except just at its 
beginning on costal edge), regular, curved superiorly, extending to 
submedian nervure ; hind-marginal series of small acute white lunules 
rather ill-defined, succeeded by the usual whitish and fuscous hind- 
marginal bounding lines. Hind-iving : discal band more macular than 
in fore-wing, narrower, more irregular, almost interrupted on second 
subcostal and first median nervules, extending from costa to inner- 
margin ; a shorter, similar, sub-basal band crossing middle of discoidal 
