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SOUTII-AFEICAN BUTTEKFLIES, 
markings and joining the three outermost spots of transverse row ; a 
wliitish spot at posterior angle. Hincl-ioing : costa narrowly fuscous- 
clouded. Under side. — As in ^ ; bluisli-silvery of two spots of hind- 
wing brighter. 
Cilia in both sexes white, in fore-wing regularly interrupted with 
blackish, in hind-wing irregularly and very faintly. Tail of hind-wing 
rather short, linear, black, white-tipped. 
There can be little doubt that the specimen noted by Wallengren as Rosi- 
mon, Fab., belongs to this species. His description is not detailed, but he 
particularly notes the cilia as white, spotted in fore-wings with black, a char- 
acter very constant in Hintza, while in Rosimon the entire cilia are as constantly 
conspicuously black-spotted.^ The blue $ at once distinguishes the species 
from Rosimon, and denotes a relationship to Theoplirastus. The $ of Rosimon 
presents a much broader white discal field, in hind-wing uncrossed by trans- 
verse row of spots ; the basal blue is more brilliant and with a greenish tinge ; 
and with regard to the under side, the spots of the common inner submarginal 
row are much broader ; while in hind-wing the spots of the discal row, instead 
of being quadrate and nearly central, are elongate, and all hut the two first close 
to, and usually touching, those of inner submarginal roiv, — and the subcostal 
^tria is entire. 
This is apparently a scarce species. Mr. W. D 'Urban, who discovered it 
in British Kaffraria, noted it as not common near King William's Town, 
appearing in November and February ; and Colonel Bowker sent a few of 
both sexes from Kaffraria Proper. I found it scarce during my visit to Natal 
in 1867, observing it only singly about grassy open spots, in different parts of 
that Colony, between the end of February and beginning of April. 
Localities of Lyccena Hintza. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts.— King William's Town (TF. S. M. D' Urban). 
c. Griqualand West. — Vaal River (/. H. Bowlder). 
I). Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Bivers (/. H. Boicher). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Umhlali. Yerulam. Umvoti. 
h. Upper Districts. — Maritzburg. Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). 
Tugela and Mooi Biver Valley (J. H BowJcer). 
K. Transvaal. — Marico and Limpopo Rivers [F. G. Selous). 
160. (42.) Lycaena Calice, Hopffer. 
Lyccena Ccdice, Hopff., "Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch., 1855, 
p. 642, n. 18;" and Peters' Beise Mossamb., Ins., p. 405, t. 
xxvi., ff. 4, 5 [?] (1862). 
Uxp. al., ($) ilj lin. ; ($) i in. i lin. 
White, ivith black margins and spots ; in each wing, a wide basal 
black suffusion ; a broad costal, apical, and hind-marginal border ; a 
terminal disco- cellular black lunule ; and a broken irregular discal row 
^ Mr. Chr. Aurivillius, of the Stockholm Museum, to whom I referred the point, informs 
me that the Rosimon of Wallengren is undoubtedly = Hintza, Trim. 
