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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
middle of hind-margin, and intermediate small whitish ones ; in hind- 
wing white, with dull-fuscous narrow interruptions on nervules. 
The sexes do not differ except in size, and in the $'s having the 
black markings narrower and the white field proportionally wider on 
both upper and under sides. 
It was not until July 1879, when Colonel Bowker sent me the paired 
sexes from Pinetown, Natal, that I identified the true Calice of Hopffer, 
having previously taken for this species the very nearly allied L. Melmna, 
mihi. 
The absence of any blue in either sex, and the width and blackness of 
the dark borders on the upper side, with the very different arrangement of 
the discal transverse series of spots on the under side, readily distinguish 
Calice from Hintza, Trim. 
The species appears to be rarer than Melcena, and the only examples I 
have received were taken in Natal. Neither Colonel Bowker nor Mr. 
Hutchinson noted any particulars of the butterfly's special haunts or habits. 
Localities of Lyccenct Calice. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown (/. H. Boivker). 
b. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). 
XL Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — "Damaraland (De Vylder).^^ — Aurivillius. 
"Angola (/. J. Monteiro).'' — H. Druce. 
h. Eastern Coast. — "Querimba." — Hopffer. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — "Senegal." — Hopffer. 
16L (43.) Lycaena Melaena, sp. nov. 
Lyccena Calice, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 244. n. 145 (1866). 
Exp, aL, ($) 10^ — 1 lin. ; ($) 10 lin. — i in. 
White, with black margins and spots. Fore-wing : base and costa 
broadly and inner margin narrowly suffused with blackish ; a large, 
elongate, black, transverse mark from inner margin near base ; a spot 
closing cell ; and several spots of an irregular row beyond middle, 
joining broad hind-marginal black, and isolating a quadrate white spot 
not far from apex. Hind-iuing : a blackish suffusion at base, along 
costa (leaving part of its edge white), and along hind-margin ; beyond 
middle, a much-curved row of quadrate black spots (usually more or 
less confluent with hind-marginal blackish), widely interrupted between 
second subcostal and discoidal nervules ; several indistinct black spots 
at base ; in hind-marginal blackish a row of indistinct black spots (of 
which the two next anal angle are sometimes faintly bluish-silvery- 
dotted), occasionally whitish-ringed, always followed by a thin white 
line, indistinct towards costa. Cilia of fore-ioing blackish, with a white 
