LYCxENID.E. 99 
cell) arc feiTiiginous-red or fuscous-feiTuginouSj and tlie third (on 
inner margin) is fuscous. 
^ Dull fuscous ; a violaceous patch (vctriaUe in size) from near 
base to beyond middle, sometimes extending over lower part of discoidal 
cell, in fore-iuing ; Jiind-iuing with tivo submarginal rows of white lumdes, 
of ivhich the inner is usually someiuhat suffmcd inwardly, and some- 
times enlarged into a discal luhitish space ; all lower half of hind-wing shot 
with violaceous. Fore-wing : a terminal disco-cellular blackish striola ; 
in some examples, close to liind-marginj between second median ner- 
vule and submedian nervuro, a whitish streak tinged with violaceous, 
followed by a similar line of great tenuity ; violaceous patch rarely 
touches any part of inner margin. Hind-iuing : terminal disco-cellular 
blackish striola as in fore-wing, but less distinct ; on disc, between 
second subcostal and origin of second median nervule, a short, blackish 
macular stria (very conspicuous in specimens with a more or less 
whitish discal area) ; upper of two hind-marginal spots, between second 
and first median nervules, large, black, with a conspicuous orange- 
yellow lunule bounding it inwardly ; a clearly-defined white hind-mar- 
ginal line, immediately succeeded by a black one, from anal angle as 
far as second subcostal nervule, where the outer submarginal white 
lunular row also terminates. Under side. — Much paler than in $ ; 
markings similar, hut their luhite edges much more developed, those leyond 
discal stria (ivhich is comparatively darker than in $) conibining suf- 
fusedly, particidarly in hind-iuing, into a ivhite submarginal band. 
Hind-iving : hind-marginal spangled spots larger than in 
Gerstacker (op. cit.), while admitting the diflficulty he had expe- 
rienced, in common with myself and other lepidopterists, in determin- 
ing what Godart's Umolus really is, refers this species to Emolus, 
mihi, which = Z. Liodes, Hewits., described below. The $ figured by 
him, however, differs from my insects as well as from Godart's descrip- 
tion in possessing a sub-basal row of three conspicuous round white- 
ringed spots in the hind- wing. Godart's Emolus (as more fully explained 
under L. Liodes) is in all probability identical with L. beyigaleiisis, 
Moore, the type of the genus Lycmnesthcs. 
I have examined the type of L. Lemnos, Hewits., a male from Delagoa 
Bay, and do not find that it can be separated as a species. The only dif- 
ferences from the $ Sylvanus that it presents are, on the upper side, a 
rather paler, more glistening purple, and in the hind-wing a short white 
(instead of indistinct whitish) line between the black hind-marginal and short 
preceding lines at anal angle ; and, on the under side, rather brighter red in 
the upper and middle spots of the sub-basal transverse row. 
The late Mr. E. C. Buxton was the first to discover this Lyccenesthes as 
South- African, having sent me a pair taken by himself in some part of Natal 
m 1873. From D' Urban and Pinetown, during the years 1878 to 1884, 
Colonel Bowker has forwarded nine of each sex, taken at different times of 
the year. The best locality noted by him was the Park at D' Urban, where 
he found many specimens on the wing during the last three days of October 
1879. 
