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black spots, whicb are more conspicuous (especially as regards the 
orange lunules edging two of tbem) than in $ ; liind-marginal line and 
its white edges very distinct. Under side. — Whiter ; the markings 
brighter, clearer, and more conspicuous. 
This butterfly is allied to R. Erylus (Godt.), but considerably smaller. 
Its under side is much paler, and the markings of a brighter tint and more 
clearly defined ; while the upper side of the $ is of a much less intense, more 
pinkish-violaceous than purple-blue lustre, and has the patch in fore-wing 
very much smaller and less conspicuous. 
An unusually small ^ , which I took near D' Urban, Natal, has an expanse 
of wings of only 10 J lines, 
H. Philippus has a wide African distribution, but does not appear to 
penetrate the Cape Colony far beyond its eastern border. I found it a com- 
mon insect on the coast of Natal, where I captured the paired sexes on 2 1 st 
February 1867. I observed it on the wing from the end of January to the 
beginning of April ; it was always about rather low shrubs, usually perching 
on the leaves, but occasionally sucking the flowers. The males, as a rule, 
perched higher than the females, keeping to the topmost sprigs; but they 
were not specially active, and their flights were very short. Colonel Bowker 
has taken this species in J uly and August, j 
Localities of Hypolycmna Philippus. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — King William's Town (TF. M. D' Urban 
and /. //. Boivker). 
D. Kafl'raria Proper. — Bashee Biver (/. //. Boivker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D' Urban. Umvoti. Mouth of Tugela Biver 
{J. H. Boivker). " Lower Umkomazi." — J. IT. Bowker. 
F. Zululand.— St. Lucia Bay {Colonel H. Tower). 
II. Other African Begions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — "Angola (/. /, Monteiro).^^ — Druce. " Chin- 
choxo {Falkendein)y — Dewitz. 
hi. Eastern Interior — '^Tette, Zambesi Biver." — Hopffer. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Sierra Leone. — Hope Mus. Oxon. and Brit. Mus. 
61. Eastern Interior. — Atbara." — Butler. 
180. (3.) Hypolycsena Buxtoni, Hewitson. 
? Hypolyccena Buxtoni, Hewits., Ent. M. Mag., x. p. 206 (1874). 
? Hypolyccena Seamani, Trim.,^ Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 332, 
pL ii. ff. 3, 4. 
Exp. al, ($) I in. li lin.; (?) I in. ^ lin. 
$ Rich violaceous-purple. Hind-wing : a hind-marginal black line 
from second median nervule to anal angle, immediately preceded by a 
^ I named this butterfly in memory of its discoverer, the late Dr. J. E. Seaman ; but 
Hewitson's description was published in February 1874, six months before my own, and con- 
sequently his name, Buxtoni, has priority. 
