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NOTES ON SOME OF THE LYCAENIBAi: COLLECTED BY 

 DOHERTY ON THE KIKUYU ESCARPMENT, NOW IN 

 THE TRING MUSEUM. 



By GEORGE T. BETIIUNE-BAKEII, F.LS., F.Z.S.- 



SOME little time ago I was looking over these Ljcaenidae in the Tring 

 Mnsenm, and I noticed one or two new species, and certain points of interest 

 in other species, that seem worth)- of being recorded. I do not, however, deal 

 with the subfamily Liptcninac, merely confining myself now to the Lycaeninae. 



1. Lachnocnema durbani Trimen. 

 Rare in November and December. 



2. Deudorix dohertyi spec. nov. 



S. Palpi whitish, with end segment black and naked. Face whitish or pale 

 cream-colonr. Primary leaden grey, with a large subqnadrangular yellowish 

 tawny patch in the medial and postmedial area, extending from near the middle 

 of the inner margin up to the end of the cell, keeping vein S as its upper edge 

 with its outer margin slightly oblique, and terminating on the inner margin in 

 front of the tornus. Secondary yellowish tawny, with the base, inner and costal 

 margins leaden grey, termen finely black. Fringes of both wings dark grey for 

 the inner half, the outer half cream-colour. 



Underside : both wings tawny grey with slightly darker spots jialely edged. 

 Primary with a quadrate spot closing the cell, the postmedial series consisting 

 of six spots somewhat flattened, the first three subconfluent, the second three 

 shifted inwards also subconfluent ; the subtermiual row consists of small snblunular 

 spots. Secondary with two snbbasal small black dots, one below vein !S and 

 one in the cell ; a pale spot on the inner margin, a (piadrate spot closes the cell ; 

 the postmedial row consists of eight s])ots, the second shifted well outwards, the 

 third and fourth conflneut shifted slightly ont, fifth and sixth continent shifted 

 well inwards, seventh slightly angled yet further in, eighth spot, a long one, 

 shifted slightly outwards ; submarginal row as in the primary, but followed by 

 a row of short fine dashes, termen finely dark, a dark lobe spot, a slight dark 

 scaling between veins 1 and 2, and a small blackish spot between 2 and 3, 

 edged slightly internally with iiale yellowish. 



Exjjanse : 3i) mm. 



The type from the Kikuyu Escarpment is in the Triug Museum. 



3. Deudorix antalus Ilojif. 



A common s])ecies, diflering in no way from the usual form. 



4. Myrina ficedula Trimen. 

 One specimen, quite tyjjical. 



