Volume 2

South-African butterflies : a monograph of the extra-tropical species / by Roland Trimen ; assisted by James Henry Bowker.

  • Trimen, Roland.
Date:
[1887-1889]
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Credit: South-African butterflies : a monograph of the extra-tropical species / by Roland Trimen ; assisted by James Henry Bowker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    usually extending (less tliickly) as far as hind-margin; white lunules of outer submarginal row thinner and less conspicuous; terminal disco-cellular lunule usually indistinct. Under side.—As in $. This species is so intimately allied to L. Parsimon, Fab., that I should not have separated it except for the extraordinary difference of colouring in the d s; the species named having the upper side of an uniform brownish-grey without a trace of blue, while L. patricia has it all light violaceous-blue except along the extreme costal and hind-marginal borders. The longer tail on the hind-wings is, however, characteristic of Patricia. A $ from Zululand is of a purer, more shining blue upper side than usual, but does not present any other differences. A $ from Estcourt, Natal, is darker than usual above, and the blue is less violaceous, occupies a smaller area in the fore-wings, and is almost obsolete in the hind-wings. In a $ and $ from the Transvaal, the under side is darker than usual, and the submarginal markings are unusually faint; the 9 is also very obscure on the upper side, with the blue much reduced in both wings, and with an indistinct short discal row of very small fuscous spots. One of the two $ s kindly sent to me as typical Asteris, Wallengr., by Mr. Chr. Aurivillius from the State Museum at Stockholm, belonged distinctly to this form, only differing in a broader terminal, disco- cellular lunule on the upper side of the fore-wings.1 In the Transvaal, Mr. W. Morant took this Lyccena early in October 1870; and Wallengren (loc. cit.) mentions that Mr. N. Person took, in the same country, during that month, what is described as the $ Parsimon, but appears to be the $ Patricia. Localities of Lyccena patricia. I. South Africa. B. Cape Colony. b. Eastern Districts.—Uitenhage (S. D. Bair stow). c. Griqualand West.—Klipdrift, Vaal River («/. H. Bowker). d. Basutoland.—Maseru (J. H. Bowker). D. Kaffraria Proper.—Tsomo and Bashee Rivers (J. H. Boivker). E. Natal. b. Upper Districts.—Estcourt (J. M. Hidchinson). P. Zululand.—Napoleon Yalley (J. H. Bowker). K. Transvaal.—Potchefstroom District (T. Ayres). Pretoria (IF. Morant). 123. (5.) Lycsena glauca, sp. nov. Lyccena Asteris, Wallengr. [ £, part], K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Hand!, 1857, p. 40, n. 12. Exp. al., ($) 1 in. 7-9 lin.; (9) I in. 6-|—10 lin. $ Glittering silvery-blue, with a slight greenish gloss (in tint inter- mediate between upper sides of L. Corydon, Scop., and Daphnis, W. Y.); a very narrow fuscous hind-marginal edging, linear in liind- 1 It is possible that Lyccena Negus, Felder, of which I only know the figures (Nos. 1 and 2) on t. xxxv. vol. ii. of the Lepidoptera of the Jlcise dcr Novara, may be the 9 of L. patricia. It is, however, smaller than usual, and the blue suffusion is represented as stopping short of the outer disc of the fore-wings. The under side is quite like that of Patricia, except that the third (inner-marginal) spot of the sub-basal row on the hind-wings is not given. The locality noted for it is Bogos, in North-Eastern Africa. VOL. II. C
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