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  LYC.ENID.E 
  (aFRICAn). 
  — 
  LYaENESTHES. 
  

  

  of 
  an 
  orange 
  streak 
  continued 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  the 
  last 
  eye 
  smaller 
  still, 
  

   distinctly 
  sejjarated 
  from 
  the 
  second, 
  not 
  marked 
  with 
  orange, 
  but 
  standing 
  on 
  

   a 
  white 
  ground 
  ; 
  a 
  white 
  blotch 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  first 
  eyes. 
  

  

  Antenna? 
  ringed 
  with 
  white 
  and 
  tipped 
  with 
  orange 
  ; 
  orbits 
  white 
  ; 
  pectus 
  

   thickly 
  clothed 
  with 
  whitish 
  hair. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Mombasa 
  (Last). 
  

  

  lu 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Grose 
  Smith. 
  

   Allied 
  to 
  L. 
  Lemiios, 
  Hew. 
  

  

  LYC^NESTHES 
  LITHAS. 
  Figs. 
  3, 
  4 
  ^ 
  ; 
  5, 
  G 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  Lijeanfsthi's 
  Lithas, 
  H. 
  H. 
  Druce, 
  "Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   History," 
  ser. 
  6, 
  vol. 
  5, 
  p. 
  2-4 
  (January, 
  1890). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  f-l| 
  inch. 
  

  

  Malt'. 
  Upperside 
  violet-blue. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costal 
  area, 
  outer 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  above 
  the 
  lowest 
  submedian 
  nervure 
  

   blackish, 
  broadly 
  continued 
  to 
  the 
  hinder 
  angle. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  rather 
  

   narrow 
  blackish 
  borders, 
  costal 
  area 
  blackish, 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  two 
  

   submarginal 
  eyes 
  of 
  the 
  undersurface 
  showing 
  through, 
  indistinctly 
  blackish 
  ; 
  

   inner 
  margin 
  thickly 
  clothed 
  with 
  white 
  hairs. 
  

  

  Underside 
  greyish-white. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  two 
  double 
  rows 
  of 
  white 
  

   curved 
  lines, 
  mostly 
  marked 
  with 
  brown 
  within, 
  those 
  nearest 
  the 
  base 
  com- 
  

   mencing 
  with 
  two 
  straight 
  lines 
  across 
  the 
  cell, 
  the 
  outer 
  series 
  more 
  

   irregular, 
  and 
  not 
  continued 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  which 
  is 
  whitish 
  ; 
  a 
  double 
  

   row 
  of 
  submarginal 
  crescents, 
  filled 
  up 
  with 
  brown. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  nearly 
  

   similar, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  double 
  rows 
  of 
  streaks 
  more 
  continuous 
  and 
  nearer 
  

   together 
  ; 
  two 
  large 
  black 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  costal 
  mostly 
  bordered 
  with 
  white 
  ; 
  the 
  

   three 
  submarginal 
  black 
  blue-dusted 
  spots 
  rather 
  small 
  ; 
  the 
  largest 
  surmounted 
  

   by 
  an 
  orange 
  arch, 
  the 
  second 
  by 
  an 
  orange 
  spot, 
  the 
  smallest 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  

   anal 
  angle, 
  well 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  second, 
  and 
  standing 
  on 
  a 
  whitish 
  ground. 
  

  

  Body 
  black 
  above, 
  mostly 
  white 
  below, 
  orbits 
  narrowly 
  white, 
  antennae 
  

   black, 
  ringed 
  with 
  white, 
  club 
  irregularly 
  marked 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  orange. 
  

  

  Female 
  (?). 
  Upperside 
  dull 
  violet-blue, 
  costa 
  and 
  hind 
  margins 
  bordered 
  

   with 
  brown; 
  fringes 
  mostly 
  white. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  black 
  sub- 
  

   marginal 
  spot 
  surmounted 
  with 
  orange, 
  corresponding 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  underside, 
  

   and 
  with 
  a 
  white 
  submarginal 
  line 
  between 
  this 
  and 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  ; 
  fringes 
  

   mostly 
  white. 
  

  

  