﻿LYC.ENID.E 
  (Afpjcan). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XXIII. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  LYC^NESTHES. 
  II. 
  

  

  v.— 
  LYCENESTHES 
  OCULATUS. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  --^^ 
  iuch. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  brown. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  five 
  submarginal 
  

   white 
  spaces, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  filled 
  up 
  with 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  and 
  third 
  from 
  the 
  

   anal 
  angle 
  very 
  large, 
  siibtriangular, 
  and 
  deep 
  black 
  wdthin 
  ; 
  a 
  little 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  

   side 
  of 
  these 
  runs 
  an 
  angulated 
  and 
  not 
  quite 
  continuous 
  white 
  line. 
  

  

  Underside 
  light 
  brown, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  six 
  rather 
  broad 
  white 
  stripes, 
  

   all 
  except 
  the 
  two 
  basal 
  ones, 
  which 
  are 
  incomplete 
  above, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  bifurcate 
  

   and 
  broken 
  towards 
  the 
  costa 
  ; 
  the 
  fifth 
  and 
  sixth 
  unite 
  at 
  the 
  lowest 
  median 
  

   nervulc 
  ; 
  the 
  submarginal 
  markings 
  consist 
  of 
  four 
  distinct 
  ocelli, 
  centred 
  with 
  

   blackish, 
  two 
  short 
  parallel 
  white 
  lines 
  on 
  the 
  costal 
  side, 
  and 
  two 
  longer 
  ones, 
  

   formed 
  of 
  two 
  imperfect 
  luuules, 
  towards 
  the 
  anal 
  angle. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  

   more 
  irregular 
  white 
  markings 
  ; 
  two 
  long 
  basal 
  ones, 
  enclosing 
  a 
  blackish 
  space, 
  

   and 
  followed 
  below 
  by 
  a 
  subrotund 
  white 
  mark 
  filled 
  up 
  with 
  blackish 
  ; 
  then 
  a 
  

   short 
  white 
  streak, 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  broad 
  irregular 
  band, 
  trifid 
  above, 
  where 
  its 
  

   innermost 
  fork 
  on 
  the 
  costa 
  is 
  filled 
  up 
  with 
  blackish, 
  and 
  imperfectly 
  divided 
  

   below 
  by 
  brown 
  lines 
  and 
  dashes 
  ; 
  the 
  submarginal 
  markings 
  consist 
  of 
  a 
  broad 
  

   white 
  dash, 
  two 
  broad 
  white 
  rings 
  filled 
  up 
  with 
  blackish, 
  two 
  large 
  black 
  eyes, 
  

   corresponding 
  to 
  those 
  above, 
  dotted 
  with 
  shining 
  metallic 
  blue, 
  and 
  surromided 
  

   first 
  with 
  a 
  yellowish 
  and 
  then 
  with 
  a 
  white 
  border. 
  Between 
  these 
  and 
  the 
  

   anal 
  angle 
  is 
  a 
  white 
  space, 
  on 
  which, 
  just 
  before 
  the 
  anal 
  angle, 
  are 
  two 
  smaller 
  

   black 
  markings, 
  divided 
  by 
  a 
  thick 
  yellowish 
  line. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  very 
  long, 
  black, 
  ringed 
  with 
  white 
  ; 
  club 
  tawny 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  

   and 
  beneath, 
  and 
  a 
  tawny 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  middle 
  beneath. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  II., 
  OCTOBER, 
  1893. 
  A 
  A 
  

  

  