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Show 48 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, lower slightly scaled with metallic blue. Cilia as on upperside, but with darker base. $ . Discal area in both wings whitish, with a pale-blue scaling from base over cell and along inner-marginal area. Fore wing: terminal discocellular marking very much broader than in male, reniform. Hind wing: 3rd and 4th spots of discal series of underside reproduced, fuscous; hind margin more or less whitish-bordered throughout; fuscous spots near anal angle much enlarged. Underside as in male. The male and the two females above described were all taken at Christmas Pass on 11th February ; the male is in good condition, but the females are greatly worn and faded. Only these three examples were seen, they were flying slowly on an open hill-side. The large and very irregularly disposed deep black discal spots of the underside readily distinguish this Lyccena from all its congeners known to me, with the exception of one very near ally discovered in the adjacent district of Mashunaland by Mr. Selous, which is described below \ 77. LYCCENA CISSUS (Godt.). Polyommatus cissus, Godt. Encycl. Meth. ix. p. 683. n. 210 (1823). One specimen from Umtali, five from Christmas Pass, and one from the Mineni Valley. 78. LYCENA MAHALLOKOO3NA, Wallengr. Lyccena mahallokocena, Wallengr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857-Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 41. n. 16. Two examples from Christmas Pass, and one from the Mineni Valley. Until the receipt of these Manica specimens, the most 1 LYCCENA MASHUNA, n. sp. Exp. al.(3)l in. 5-6 lin.; ( ? ) 1 in. 6-8 lin. Nearly allied to L. exclusa. 3 • Very pale violaceous-blue, shot with pink ; neuration distinctly blackish ; a strongly-marked hind-marginal black edging streak ; discal spots of underside faintly showiny through; terminal discocellular mark distinct, slender, and anyulated in both wings. Fore wing : immediately before hind-marginal black edging a very faint tinge of ochry-yellow, preceded by a very faint diffuse greyish fascia. Hind wing: an extremely faint diffuse greyish border immediately before hind-marginal edging; a rather small and faint blackish spot close to hind margin, between 1st and 2nd median nervules, immediately preceded by some very faint ochry-yellowish scaling; no tail. U N D E R S I D E . - Ochre-yellow, with conspicuous black, very thinly white-edged discal spots arranged just as in L. exclusa; two series of very faint submarginal white lunules. Fore wing: field of wing much paler than costal and hind-marginal border; 5th spot of discal series greatly reduced and but little before 4th, and 6th spot wanting. Hind wing : hind-marginal black spot darker than on upperside, ochre-yellow immediately preceding it darker than ground-colour. 2 • Pale-blue field much more limited than in male, the costal, apical, and hind-marginal border being in both wings broadly brownish grey ; ochru-yellowish hind-margined stain much more developed, and in fore wing usually conspicuous between 2nd median nervule and posterior angle, while in some specimens it is also diffvsedly present in hind wing. Fore wing: discocellular terminal |
