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Female. — The female does not differ in anything from the male except 

 that she is lighter in color and the markings are somewhat less distinct. 

 Expanse of wings, 27-28 mm. 

 Eight males and two females in the National Museum collection. 



Genus LYC^^NESTHES, Moore. 

 LYCiENESTHES LARYDAS, Cramer.' 



The National Museum collection contains three male examples much 

 ligliter in color than specimens from west tropical Africa, the region 

 from which the type came. 



LYCiENESTHES LEMNOS, Hewitson. 



Lijrwiu'slhts JenDws, Hewitsox, 111. Dinni. I^ep., p. 221, No. 8, pi. xc, ligs. 13, 

 U (1878). 



There is one male of this species in the National Museum collection. 



I can not agree with Mr. Trimen in sinking L. lenuws ns a synonym 

 of L. sylvanus, Drury. I have an immense series of the latter from 

 Sierra Leone and adjacent regions, all of which are much darker upon 

 the under side than any specimens of L. lemnos from the eastern coast 

 that I have ever seen, and differ noticeably in having the spots upon the 

 basal area and near the costal margin of the under side of the secon- 

 daries very dark and conspicuous. This is not the case in L. lemnos, 

 Hewitson; and besides, the general color of botli the under side and 

 the upper side of the wings of the last-mentioned species is much 

 lighter than in L. sylvanus, Drury. Mr. Druce, after a careful exami- 

 nation of the types in the Hewitson collection, with some typical speci- 

 mens of L. syl ramify, Drury, before him at the time, reaches the same 

 conclusion which I have expressed, and further gives it as his impres- 

 sion that the female figured by Hewitson as the female of L. si/h-anus 

 is in fact that sex of i. lemnos, Hewitson. 



Genus HYPOLYC^NA, Felder. 

 HYPOLYCiENA PHILIPPUS (Fabricius). 

 Jlespevia pliUlppus, F.\biuciU!>, Eut. Syst. Ill, 1, p. 283, No. 87 (1793). 



One male of this exceedingly widely distributed species. 



Genus CHRYSORYCHI A, Wallengren. 



CHRYSORYCHIA HARPAX ( Fabricius). 



Papilio liavpar, Fabricius, Syst. Eiit., App., p. 829, Nos. 327,328 (1775). 

 One male of this species, notably larger than any specimens I have 

 ever seen from the more southern portions of the continent. 



' For synonymy see Trimen, South African Bntterflies, II, p. 96. 



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