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and submarginal stria two black bluisli- or greenisli-silvery speckled 
spots, — one between second and first median nervules, circled (except 
externally) witk orange-yellow, tke other on and cliiefly above sub- 
median nervure internally edged with orange-yellow ; costa at base 
edged with white ; a sub-basal transverse row of four dark white- 
ringed spots (the third of which is brown, and the rest are black) from 
costal nervure to inner margin. 
$ Dull-fuscous ; bases slightly tinged for some distance with slaty- 
grey ; discs paler, in some instances luhitish or lohite in fore-wing ; tivo 
submarginal roivs of white lunules in hind-iving. Fore-icing : near pos- 
terior angle, between second median nervule and submedian nervure, 
four whitish marks, of which the two inner are broad and more or less 
suffused (sometimes merged in discal whitish), the two outer narrow. 
Hind-wing : lunules of inner submarginal row wider than those of 
outer row, and somewhat suffused ; lunules of outer row thin, acute, — • 
that between second and first median nervules immediately succeeded 
by a sub-trigonate black spot ; a very distinct pure-white hind-mar- 
ginal line immediately followed by a black one. Cilia with white 
parts more developed than in Under side. — Markings arranged 
as in but the ivhite edges of nearly all the strioe — especicdly the sub- 
marginal ones and those near inne7''margin of fore-wing — widened and 
more or less confluent^ so that the greyish-brown ground-colour is con- 
siderably reduced. 
Cramer's figure represents the under side, and, though rough and enlarged, 
gives the markings with tolerable fidelity j but the ground colour is much 
darker than in any examples I have seen, — darker, indeed, than in the ^ , 
although from the notice in the text (p. i6o), that ^'le dessus des ailes est 
d'un blanc blenatre, les bords en sont d'un [brun] clair," it seems clear that 
the specimen figured (a West- African one) was a female. 
The upper side of the $ in this species is the same as that of L. Si/loamis, 
Dru., and not very much darker than in L. Liodes, He wits. ; but that of the $ 
is quite peculiar, owing to the absence of any violaceous suffusion, and to the 
white markings existing near the posterior angle of the fore- wings. On the 
under side the curious striation in the basal part of the fore wings distin- 
guishes Larydas from all the known South- African species, and shows its 
alliance to L. Lysicles and numerous other West- African species figured by 
Mr. Hewitson. 
The first South- African example of Larydas I met with was a worn ^ , 
taken at D'Urban, Natal, in 1870 by the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken. From 1879 
to 1 88 1, however, Colonel Bowker forwarded 'a good many specimens of 
both sexes captured in the same locality, including two pairs found in coitu 
on the 17th January 1879 25th March 1881 respectively. He noted 
nothing peculiar in the habits of the butterfly. 
Localities of Lyccencsthes Larydas. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban [M. J. M'Ken and /. LL. Bowker). 
Pinetown {J. LL. Boivker). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourengo Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 
