﻿LYCENID.E 
  (aFKICAN). 
  — 
  LYC.ENESTHES. 
  .103 
  

  

  YII.— 
  LYCiENESTHES 
  LUCRETILIS. 
  s 
  • 
  Figs. 
  5, 
  6. 
  

  

  Ijijccencsthcs 
  Liicretilis, 
  Hewitson, 
  "Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  Entomological 
  

   Society 
  of 
  Loudon," 
  1874, 
  p. 
  34'J 
  ; 
  "Illustrations 
  of 
  Diurnal 
  Lepidoptera 
  : 
  

   Lycffinida?," 
  p. 
  228, 
  pi. 
  91, 
  figs. 
  29, 
  30 
  (1878). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  f 
  inch. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside. 
  Velvety 
  hlack. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  some 
  blue 
  speckles 
  

   at 
  the 
  base, 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  large 
  8-shaped 
  mark, 
  interrupted 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  

   lower 
  circle. 
  Beyond 
  this 
  are 
  four 
  rows 
  of 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  irregular 
  and 
  l^roken 
  

   blue 
  lines 
  and 
  spots, 
  the 
  two 
  middle 
  ones 
  most 
  slender 
  ; 
  also 
  a 
  short 
  blue 
  streak 
  

   between 
  the 
  second 
  spots 
  from 
  the 
  costa 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  outermost 
  rows. 
  Tow^ards 
  

   the 
  inner 
  margin 
  the 
  blue 
  markings 
  incline 
  more 
  to 
  violet. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  

   with 
  violet-blue 
  markings 
  ; 
  a 
  ring 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  three 
  transverse 
  lines 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  

   the 
  outermost 
  continued 
  by 
  three 
  streaks, 
  set 
  inwards, 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  two 
  

   blue 
  lines, 
  united 
  above, 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  surmounted 
  by 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  short 
  lines 
  

   towards 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  divided 
  into 
  short 
  outer 
  streaks, 
  and 
  sagittate 
  inner 
  

   markings 
  ; 
  — 
  two 
  of 
  each 
  kind 
  — 
  by 
  the 
  nervures. 
  There 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  blue 
  sub- 
  

   marginal 
  line, 
  with 
  slight 
  traces 
  of 
  an 
  inner 
  one. 
  

  

  Fringes, 
  and 
  extreme 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  tails, 
  white. 
  

  

  Underside 
  dark 
  brownish-black, 
  with 
  white 
  markings. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  

   with 
  a 
  short 
  subcostal 
  line 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  a 
  long 
  narrow 
  streak 
  from 
  the 
  inner 
  

   margin, 
  which 
  does 
  not 
  reach 
  the 
  costa, 
  two 
  broad 
  streaks 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  

   the 
  outermost 
  continued 
  l)y 
  a 
  narrow 
  neck 
  to 
  a 
  much 
  broader 
  subcostal 
  stripe 
  ; 
  

   two 
  more 
  diverging 
  stripes 
  from 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  the 
  innermost 
  linear, 
  and 
  

   extending 
  to 
  the 
  costa, 
  the 
  outermost 
  much 
  broader, 
  and 
  ceasing 
  at 
  the 
  upper 
  

   median 
  nervule 
  ; 
  their 
  upper 
  portions 
  are 
  connected 
  by 
  an 
  intermediate 
  curved 
  

   lino. 
  Above 
  the 
  broad 
  outer 
  stripe 
  is 
  a 
  short 
  broad 
  oblique 
  subapical 
  stripe, 
  

   within 
  which 
  are 
  two 
  more 
  oblique 
  curved 
  lines, 
  the 
  latter 
  of 
  which 
  joins 
  the 
  

   streak 
  at 
  its 
  lower 
  end. 
  There 
  are 
  also 
  tw^o 
  submarginal 
  lines, 
  united 
  below, 
  

   and 
  like 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  lines, 
  interrupted 
  by 
  the 
  nervures. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  

   with 
  three 
  single 
  and 
  three 
  double 
  lines, 
  all 
  broken 
  by 
  the 
  nervures 
  ; 
  the 
  

   second 
  line 
  is 
  expanded 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  into 
  a 
  large 
  oblong 
  blotch, 
  with 
  an 
  

   indentation 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  side 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  second 
  double 
  line 
  coalesces 
  into 
  a 
  

   large 
  oblong 
  blotch 
  on 
  the 
  costa, 
  closely 
  approached 
  by 
  the 
  outermost 
  streak 
  

   of 
  the 
  first 
  double 
  line, 
  which 
  separates 
  more 
  widely 
  on 
  the 
  costa. 
  Between 
  

   the 
  two 
  lower 
  median 
  nervules 
  is 
  a 
  large 
  submarginal 
  and 
  subtriangular 
  black 
  

   spot 
  dusted 
  with 
  metallic 
  bluish-green, 
  and 
  towards 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  is 
  a 
  smaller 
  

   black 
  spot, 
  similarly 
  dusted. 
  

  

  