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158. (40.) Lycaena Natalensis, si^. nov. 
Exp. aL, ($) I in. — I in. 2 lin. ; ($) I in. i-2^ lin. 
J Violaceous-blue ivith a slight pinkish tinge (very nearly the same 
tint as in Moriqua, Wallengr.), the disced spots of the binder side indis^ 
tinctly perceptible ; a well-defined black line edging hind-margins ; cilia 
in fore-wing fuscous, except next apex, between third and second 
median nervules, and between first median nervule and submedian 
nervure, where white replaces the fuscous, — in hind-wing fuscous 
basally, but white externally throughout. Hind-iving : no tail ; usually 
an indistinct blackish hind-marginal spot at anal angle, and sometimes 
a second, very indistinct one above it. Under side. — White, with 
broiun stripes and streaks and black spots ; in both wings — a long slender 
brown terminal disco-cellular lunule ; a slightly irregular, submarginal, 
lunulated, brown, slender streak ; and a hind-marginal row of small 
spots, mostly black, but a few indistinct and brownish. Fore-wing : a 
conspicuous longitudinal streak, inferiorhj bordering costal nervure, black 
from base, but becoming brown and sulfused towards extremity of dis- 
coidal cell, whence it borders costa and unites with origin of brown 
discal fascia ; this fascia brown, rather broad, sharply defined, slightly 
oblique, emitting a prominent dentation outiuarcl just above third median 
nervule, abruptly interrupted on second median nervule, its widely 
separated lower part (consisting of a large upper spot and very small 
inferior one) much nearer base than the rest ; a conspicuous rounded 
black spot in lower part of discoidal cell near extremity ; the fourth 
and sixth spots in hind-marginal row brownish, obsolescent. Hind- 
wing : short, basal, sub-transverse black streak, and sub-basal transverse 
row of four black spots as in Moriqua, but more strongly marked ; an 
extremely irregular and interrupted discal row of very unequal-sized 
black spots, of which the first and second next costa about middle are 
large and conspicuous, — the third (a good deal beyond them) minute, 
— the fourth (still farther beyond) minute or quite obsolete, — the fifth 
(close to submarginal streak), sixth (considerably nearer base), and 
eighth (on inner margin about middle) large, — and the seventh very 
small but usually geminate ; spots of hind-marginal row larger than in 
fore-wing (especially the first, next costa), only the fourth brownish and 
obsolescent, the fifth and sixth large, spangled with silvery-blae. 
? White, with rather broad fuscous-brown costcd and hind-margined 
borders, and fuscous disced submacular fascia and spots following the 
pattern of the under side ; shot with violaceous-blue from bases. Fore- 
wing : terminal disco-cellular lunule much broader, and discal fascia 
much broader and its lower part less disconnected than on under side 
of $ ; blue sufiusion extending to beyond middle along inner margin 
and filling discoidal cell. Hind-iving : only the lower larger spots 
of discal row represented ; two hind-marginal spots next anal angle 
