103 
In a from Svvellendam, Cape Colony, the discal row is very much 
narrowed, and its whitish edges, as well as those of the other markings, are 
everywhere suffused and confluent with the adjacent ones. 
The bright-violaceous upper side, with its broad cupreous-brown borders, 
at once distinguish the ^ Otacilia from the same sex in Liodes and Sylvanus, 
and approximate it to L. livida, Trim., in which, however, the violaceous is 
very much duller and more limited in extent. In the $ Otacilia, on the 
contrary, the upper side is almost devoid of violaceous. The under side is of 
a browner less grey tint than in its congeners, and the markings on the whole 
most resemble those of the $ Liodes. In size Otacilia is the smallest of the 
South-African species of Lijccenestlies. 
The Otacilia of Hewitson [Illustr. Biurn. Lep., pi. 92, ff. 35-37, 1878), 
which I have examined in that author's collection, is, I think, a distinct 
species, the $ having the upper side violaceous much intenser, and occupying 
a considerably larger space (especially in the fore-wing), and the 9 present- 
ing almost as much as in the $ Otacilia, mihi ; both sexes further exhibiting 
a very conspicuous bright-orange crescent bounding the black hind-marginal 
spot of the hind-wings. On the under side the markings are darker and more 
pronounced. Mr. Hewitson's specimens were ticketed as natives of Angola 
and Sierra Leone. 
This little species seems rather widely spread in South Africa, but is not 
frequent in collections. The first specimen that came under my notice was 
sent from Swellendam in 1864 by Mr. L. Taats. Mrs. Barber subsequently 
sent one from Grahamstown, and Colonel Bowker two from Kaffraria Proper, 
and one, captured on ist May 1874, from King William's Town. It was 
not until January 1876 that I met with the species at all numerously. At 
Robertson, in the Cape Colony, during that month, I observed a good num- 
ber about the flowers of Acacia Jwrrida, and captured examples of both sexes. 
Like the rest of the genus, they were active and wary, and not very easy to 
secure among the thorny bushes under the noonday sun of January. I had 
previously (in March 1867) taken a single female at Grey town, Natal. 
Localities of Lycmnestlies Otacilia. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Bobertson. Swellendam (L. Taats). 
h. Eastern Districts. — Grahamstown {M. E. Barber). King Wil- 
liam's Town (J. H. Boivker) 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo Biver (/. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
h. Upper Districts. — Greytown. Estcourt (/. M. Hutcliinsoii). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. — Central Interior. — Victoria Falls, Zambesi 
River {F. Oates).'' — Westwood. 
172. (6.) Lycaenesthes livida, Trimen. 
PLATEVIL,ff. 7(c?), 7a($). 
$ , ^ Lyccenestlies livida, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 188 1, p. 443. 
Exp. al.j {$) I in. — i in. 2 lin. ; (?) i in. i-^ lin. — 3 lin. 
$ Shining greyish-hrowii^ ivith a cupreous gloss ; in loth ivings a 
very pale greyish-blue suffusion from base. Fore-iving : the suffusion 
