86 SOUTII-ArRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
This Lyccena is closely related to L. Theophrastus (Fab.), a native 
of North and West Africa, as well as of India and Ceylon, but readily 
distinguished by the greater size and blackness of the under-side mark- 
ings, — the spots being rounder and more distinctly separate, especially 
those of inner-submarginal row, which in Tlicoplirastus are thin, sub- 
lunulate, and partly united. On the upper side the $ Syharis is bluer, 
with the hind-marginal border wider and in the hind- wing traversed 
by a white line, while the $ has the basal blue much duller and smaller 
in extent. These differences also well serve to distinguish Sylaris from 
Z. Balkanica, Frey. ( = Fsittams, Herr.-Schaeff.), a native of Turkey 
and West Asia, in which the under-side markings are thinner and more 
inclined to be linear than they are in Thcojyhrastus, and the upper 
side of the $ has scarcely a trace of whitish on the discs. 
I met with only a single of this very beautiful species, at Klipdrift 
(now Barkly), on the Vaal River, on i8th September 1872 ; it was fluttering 
about low plants, and at length settled on the ground. It appears to be 
widely distributed, and not uncommon in the interior districts, but is not 
known to me to have occurred in the Cape Colony proper, or to have been 
found within forty miles of the coast. 
Mr. A. G. Butler, in noting the occurrence of Syharis on the Atbara, 
Soudan (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., December 1876, p. 482), writes — ''There 
is a of this species no larger than L. Barberce, Trim." 
Localities of Lycaiia Syharis. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
c. Gricpaland West. — Klipdrift, Vaal River. 
C. Orange Free State.— Between the Rhenoster and Vaal Rivers (TF. 
Movant). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (/. H. Boivker). 
E. Natal. 
h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). Rorke's Drift, 
Ladysmith, and Biggarsberg (J. H. Boioker). 
F. Zululand. — Napoleon Valley (/. H. Bowlier). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenyo Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District {T. Ayres). Marico and Lim- 
popo Rivers {F. C. Selous). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland {J. A. Bell). 
h. Eastern Coast. — " Querimba." — Hopffer. Zambesi [Rev. H. 
Roivley). 
hi. Eastern Central Interior. — Tauwani River (F. C. Selous). 
B. North Tropical. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — " Atbara River " [Soudan]. — A. G. Butler. 
Section G. — Under side white ; markings chiefly dull yellow- 
ochreous with fuscous edges, but partly fuscous in fore-wing ; longi- 
tudinal basal stripes of fore-wing much less distinct than in Section 
