﻿LYC^NID.E 
  (African), 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XXIV. 
  

  

  LYC^NESTHES. 
  III. 
  

  

  LYC^NESTHES 
  LASTI. 
  s 
  . 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  Ig 
  inch. 
  

  

  Jfalc. 
  Upperside 
  purplish-blue, 
  the 
  fringes 
  and 
  costa 
  of 
  posterior 
  wings 
  

   alone 
  blackish. 
  

  

  Underside 
  gi-eyish-white, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  orange 
  streak 
  at 
  

   the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  costa, 
  two 
  parallel 
  white 
  stripes 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  disco- 
  

   cellular 
  nervules, 
  which 
  are 
  themselves 
  narrowly 
  white 
  ; 
  above 
  these 
  are 
  three 
  

   white 
  subcostal 
  spots. 
  Beyond 
  these 
  are 
  two 
  white 
  lines, 
  only 
  divided 
  by 
  the 
  

   nervures, 
  but 
  the 
  outermost 
  slightly 
  waved, 
  running 
  from 
  the 
  costa 
  to 
  the 
  upper 
  

   median 
  nervule 
  ; 
  between 
  the 
  median 
  uervule 
  and 
  submedian 
  nervure 
  are 
  a 
  

   doul)le 
  row 
  of 
  parallel 
  curved 
  lines, 
  each 
  set 
  nearer 
  the 
  base 
  than 
  the 
  last, 
  and 
  

   faintly 
  bordered 
  with 
  brown 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  opposite 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  ; 
  inner 
  margin 
  

   whitish. 
  A 
  double 
  row 
  of 
  white 
  submarginal 
  lines, 
  widely 
  divided 
  by 
  the 
  

   nervures 
  into 
  a 
  scries 
  of 
  streaks. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  two 
  large 
  round 
  red 
  

   spots 
  on 
  the 
  costa, 
  very 
  narrowly 
  surrounded 
  with 
  Idack 
  rings, 
  the 
  innermost 
  

   with 
  an 
  outer 
  white 
  ring, 
  the 
  outermost 
  bordered 
  with 
  white 
  on 
  both 
  sides 
  ; 
  

   two 
  white 
  streaks 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  the 
  outermost 
  indistinct, 
  two 
  rows 
  

   of 
  nearly 
  parallel 
  white 
  curved 
  sti'eaks, 
  divided 
  bj' 
  the 
  nervures, 
  below 
  the 
  outer 
  

   red 
  spot, 
  from 
  the 
  upper 
  sul)costal 
  to 
  the 
  upper 
  median 
  nervule, 
  where 
  the 
  

   outermost 
  ceases 
  ; 
  l)ut 
  a 
  third 
  commences 
  beyond 
  it 
  on 
  tlie 
  lower 
  subcostal 
  

   nervule, 
  and 
  this 
  and 
  the 
  innermost 
  are 
  continued 
  to 
  the 
  anal 
  angle, 
  where 
  

   they 
  converge, 
  the 
  last 
  streaks 
  enclosing 
  a 
  long 
  red-lead 
  coloured 
  blotch 
  ; 
  

   l)ctween 
  the 
  white 
  lines, 
  other 
  traces 
  of 
  obsolete 
  white 
  lines 
  are 
  also 
  visible, 
  and 
  

   within 
  each 
  curve 
  of 
  the 
  outermost 
  series 
  is 
  a 
  rather 
  faint 
  orange 
  spot. 
  Two 
  

   nearly 
  parallel 
  submarginal 
  lines 
  broken 
  into 
  curved 
  streaks 
  by 
  the 
  nervures 
  ; 
  

   three 
  black 
  eyes 
  flecked 
  with 
  blue 
  towards 
  the 
  anal 
  angle, 
  the 
  first 
  surmounted 
  

   by 
  an 
  orange 
  angle, 
  the 
  second 
  smaller, 
  surmounted 
  with 
  orange, 
  forming 
  part 
  

  

  VOL. 
  II., 
  JANUARY, 
  1894. 
  E 
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