232 lUIOFALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



Genus LYCiENESTHES. 



Lycctnesthes, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 18G5, p. 773; Lepid. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 87 (1881). 



Anterior wings broad, costal margin slightly arched at base, oblique to near apex (which is subacute), 

 outer and inner margins nearly straight. Costal nervure extending to about half the length of costal 

 margin, first subcostal uorvule emitted beyond middle of cell, second and third somewhat close together 

 a little before end of cell, third and fourth bifurcating at about half the length of third ; cell extending to 

 more than half the length of the wing ; the three median nervules emitted near end of cell, the bases 

 of the first and second much closer together than the bases of the second and third. Posterior wings 

 subovate, somewhat elongate towards anal angle, the outer margin obliquely convex, with two short delicate 

 cilial tail-like appendages situate respectively at apices of lower median nervule and submedian nervure. 

 First subcostal nervule emitted at about one-fourth before the end of cell ; first and second median nervules 

 emitted close together near end of cell, the third at about middle of cell. Body robust ; palpi projecting 

 nearly half their length beyond the head, the apical joint slender, about half the length of the second ; 

 legs slender; anterior tibiae very finely spined beneath. 



The geographical distribution of this genus cannot be estimated in our present ignorance 

 of even all the described species which belong to it. The African Lijccenidce also require to 

 be carefully worked out before we can say that many of these genera are even confined to the 

 Oriental region. 



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1. Lycaenesthes lycaenina. (Tab. XXI., fig. 3 <? .) 



Lycanesthes hjcimina, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. 1868, p. 281 ; Moore, Lepid. Ceyl. i. p. 87, t. 35, 

 f. 8, Sn (1881), 



Male. Wings above lavender-blue, the margins narrowly fuscous. Wings beneath greyish-brown, 

 crossed by the following pale greyish linear fasciae : — anterior wings with two disco-cellular at end of cell, 

 followed by two also terminating at the upper median nervule, two extending from near the base of upper 

 median nervule to submediau nervure, a single one between the first and second median nervules, and two 

 somewhat waved submarginal ; posterior wings with about eight arranged in pairs, the basal pair not 

 extending above middle of cell, the two following from near base of lower subcostal nervule to near 

 abdominal margin, the third pair very short and boimded by the costal nervure and the lower subcostal 

 nervule, and the fourth pair situate between the lower subcostal nervule and the middle median nervule, 

 and two much angulated submarginal fascite ; a small brown spot margined with greyish beneath and at 

 a short distance from base of costal nervure, and a similar spot near base of abdominal margin,* a black 

 submarginal spot with a few bluish scales and inwardly margined with ochraceous situate between the 

 second and third median nervules and a narrow transverse dark streak at anal angle. Body both above 

 and beneath more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. — Unknown to the writer. Mr. Moore describes itt as "violet-brown; basal area suffused 

 with Ijlue ; marginal anal spots more distinct." 



H.VB.— Ceylon (Tliwaites — coll. Dist.^— Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.). 



Although I have somewhat minutely described the arrangement of the greyish linear 

 faseiffi on tlio under surface of the posterior wings belonging to a male specimen, such 



* These spots have been unfortunately omitted by the artist ; the specimen figured— the only one, then, received fi-om 

 the Malay Peninsula — being in very bud condition, 

 f Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 87. 



