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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Localities of Lycmnestlies Si/lvanus. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. — D'Urban and Pinetown (/. H. BoivJcer and T. Ayres). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — LourenQo Marques [Mrs. Monteiro). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — "Angola." — Kirby, Cat. Hewits. Coll. 
h. Eastern Coast. — Mombas {Keisten).'' — Gerstiicker. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — "Old Calabar." — Kirby, op. cit. "Sierra 
Leone. ' ' — Drury. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — "White Nile." — Kirby, op. cit. 
170. (4.) Lycaenesthes Liodes, Hewitson. 
^ $ Lycoena Emolus, Trim., Rhop. Afr, Aust., ii. p. 234, n. 136, pi. 4, 
ff. 8, 9 (1866). 
(J Lyccenestlies Liodes, Hewits., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 349. 
^ Lyccenestlies Sichela, Hewits., 111. D. Lep., p. 222, n. 12 (1878). 
Exp. al., ($) I in. 0J-2 lin. ; ($) i in. 1-2 J lin. 
^ Glistening dark-violaceous ; a slender hlacky hind-margi7ial edging 
line ; cilia whitish. Hind-wing : close to hind-margin two to three 
inconspicuous black spots between second median nervule and sub- 
median nervure ; at extremity of each of these Qiervures^ as well as that 
of first median, a thin tuft of whitish hairs. Under side. — Brownish- 
grey ; in each wing — a double dark streak (enclosing one of ground- 
colour) closing cell, the whole marking being on both sides white-edged, 
— a similar fascia, composed of confluent spots, across wing beyond 
cell, in hind-ioing bi-angulated near inner margin, in fore-vnng with 
the last spot before the rest of the fascia, — two submarginal rows 
of whitish lunules enclosing a darker space, and a very indistinct 
interior whitish edging to hind -marginal dark line. Fore-wing : rarely 
a whitish ring in cell. Hind-vjing : on costa before middle, a white- 
ringed spot similar to that closing cell ; first and last of three black 
hind-marginal spots always distinct, greenish- silvery-dusted and in- 
teriorly orange-lunuledj the second indistinct, silvery-dusted — some- 
times obsolete. 
$ Pale-grcyish, shot with violaceous-hlue from base ; a blackish disco- 
cellular spot and transverse macidar fascia in each wing ; a blackish 
hind-marginal border, in hind-iving intersected by a row of whitish 
lunules. Hind-iuing : hind-marginal white line conspicuous ; hind- 
marginal spots black, the first orange-lunuled. Under side. — As in 
but all white edgings broader, conspicuous ; outer edging of trans- 
verse fascia and inner submarginal row of lunules sometimes suffused 
and confluent, forming a white band. 
