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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 49 northern locality on the eastern side, known to me as a habitat of this curious species, was Pretoria; although further inland it had been found in the Bamangvvato Country. 79. LYCJENA GALEA, Trim. Lyccena gaika, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. i. p. 403 (1862). Two specimens from Christmas Pass. W h e n I described this species thirty years ago, I little imagined that so exceptionally fragile and slow-flying a Butterfly-one of the smallest of its genus-would be found to range over not only a great part of Africa, but also from Aden over all the Oriental Eegion to Java, aud even into the Western Pacific (Solomon Islands). 80. LYCTENA BOITICA (Linn.). Four examples from the Mineni Valley. 81. LYCENA SICHELA, Wallengr. Lyccena sichela, Wallengr. loc. cit. 1857, p. 37. n. 4. Seven specimens from Christmas Pass. With the exception of a male captured at Tati, South Matabeleland, in 1887, by the late Mr. J. L. Pry, these are the first examples known to m e from tropical S.E. Africa, but I have recorded (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 82) the occurrence of the species in the tropical S.W. area. 82. LYCCENA TELICANUS (Lang). Two specimens from Christmas Pass, and three from the Mineni Valley. There can be no doubt that the widely-spread Lyccena generally marking darker and broader. Hind wing : 3rd and 4th spots (rarely also 5th and 7th spots) of discal series of underside reproduced, fuscous; a whitish line, preceded by traces of dark spots, just before hind-marginal edge; blackish spot larger, the yellow preceding it usually taking the ordinary lunulate form ; a yellowish space at anal angle. U N D E R S I D E . - A s in male, but black spots larger, and discal series usually complete, the 5th spot only reduced in one example, and four others having all six as in L. exclusa, but with the lower three less irregularly disposed. This species is readily distinguished from L. exclusa by the blue instead of brownish-grey upperside of the male, and in both sexes by the ochre-yellow instead of creamy-whitish underside; another peculiar feature, most apparent in the female, is the development of more or less ochry-yellowish along the hind-marginal border. The intense blackness of the terminal discocellular and discal spots of tbe underside is the same in both species, and obtains, as far as I know, in no other species of this group of Lyccena. The anal angular spot on the underside of L. exclusa is wanting in that of IJ. mashuna. The relation between these two species corresponds very near to that between L. parsimon and L. patricia, Trim. The examples collected by Mr. Selous are two (3 and 2) from the Hanyani Eiver, not far south of Fort Salisbury, received in 1886 ; two ( 0_ ) from Motoko's Country, East Mashunaland, captured in November 1890 ; and six (2 3, 4 $ ) , without special locality, received in 1891. All had suffered some injuries from rough transit by post. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1894, No. IV. 4 |