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SOUTH-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 
marginal, small, indistinct, blackish spot ; no tail. Cilia sinning 
greyish. Under side. — Dull yellowish- grey ; in both ivings, the 
ordinary transverse marJdngs scarcely darker than the ground-colour , 
and faintly edged ivith ivhitish on each side, and the hind-marginal 
ones more or less indistinct ; in hind-iuing, the discal macular hand 
immediately succeeded hy a suffused luhitish one. Fore-wing : a median 
and a terminal disco-cellular striola ; discal band very regular, even, 
and continuous from costa to submedian nervure. Hind-iuing : discal 
macular band very regular, unbroken, only slightly curved inferiorly; 
a very indistinct white-edged basal spot, macular sub-basal band, and 
terminal disco-cellular striola ; hind-marginal lunules less indistinct than 
in fore-wing, more acute ; the spot between first and second median 
nervules black and distinct ; whitish submarginal band rather broad. 
$ Darker, the violaceous very restricted (esjjccially in hijid-iving), 
sometimes obsolete or harely visible. Under side. — As in ^, but all the 
markings rather better defined. 
This obscure little species on the upper side much resembles the $ 
L. Lysimon, Hiibn., but is widely different on the under side, which is 
not unlike that of L. Dcvtica, although on so small a scale. Its only 
near ally known to me is Z. Noquasa, Trim., which has an almost 
identical under side, but has much violaceous-blue on the upper side, 
especially in the male. 
Colonel Bowker discovered this butterfly in January 1865, near the 
River Tsomo in Kaffraria Proper, and noted it as very numerous during that 
and the following months in reedy, swampy spots near water. He met with 
the species again in Basutoland, in March 1869, frequenting similar stations, 
and found it very numerous on the flowers of a species of mint. Mrs. 
Barber has sent a specimen from the Stormbergen, and Dr. Kannemeyer 
several examples from Burghersdorp in the Cape Colony. So dull and small 
an insect is easily passed over by collectors, and I suspect that its range in 
the eastern tracts is more general and widely spread than at present 
appears. 
Localities of Lycmna Tsomo. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
b. Eastern Districts. — Stormbergen {M. E. Barber). Burghersdorp, 
Albert District {D. R. Kannemeyer). 
d. Basutoland. — Head of Orange River (Drakensberg), Tantjies 
Berg, and Thaba Bosigo (J. H. BoivJcer). 
D, Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (J. H. Bowker). 
15L (33.) Lycaena Noquasa, sp, nov. 
Exp. al, {$) I o- 1 1 lin. ; ($) II lin. 
$ Bright pale violaceous-blue ; fore-wing rather broadly, hind-wing 
narrowly bordered with fuscous-grey ; cilia greyish, paler outwardly. 
