﻿LYCJENID.E 
  (AFRICAN). 
  — 
  AXIOCERSES. 
  125 
  

  

  III.— 
  AXIOCEESES 
  PUNICEA. 
  i. 
  Fig. 
  15. 
  ?. 
  Figs. 
  10, 
  17. 
  

  

  Chrijsorijchia 
  Funicca, 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   History," 
  Ser. 
  6, 
  Vol. 
  III., 
  p. 
  134 
  (1889). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  i 
  . 
  1 
  inch, 
  ? 
  . 
  1:|. 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  dark 
  brown, 
  with 
  a 
  reddish 
  pnuie- 
  

   colonred 
  patch 
  commencing 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  rather 
  above 
  the 
  upper 
  median 
  

   nervule, 
  gradually 
  widening 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  costa 
  on 
  the 
  shoulder 
  brown. 
  

   Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  prune-coloured 
  patch 
  occupying 
  the 
  low'er 
  outer 
  two- 
  

   thirds 
  of 
  the 
  wings 
  ; 
  the 
  base, 
  a 
  space 
  half-way 
  down 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  and 
  the 
  

   costal 
  margin 
  broadly 
  dark 
  l)row'n. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Pinkish 
  brown 
  ; 
  two 
  spots 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  one 
  beyond 
  it, 
  two 
  in 
  a 
  

   row 
  underneath 
  the 
  last-named 
  spot, 
  several 
  spots 
  in 
  a 
  row 
  following 
  the 
  costa, 
  

   and 
  an 
  elongated 
  spot 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  golden, 
  edged 
  with 
  black, 
  a 
  submarginal 
  row 
  

   of 
  spots 
  slightly 
  golden 
  ; 
  near 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  is 
  a 
  silvery- 
  

   white 
  line 
  slightly 
  curving, 
  and 
  between 
  this 
  and 
  the 
  base 
  is 
  another 
  similar 
  

   line, 
  but 
  shorter 
  and 
  thicker. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  numerous 
  small 
  gold 
  

   markings 
  and 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  same 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  

   wings 
  ; 
  the 
  excavation 
  above 
  the 
  anal 
  lobe 
  with 
  a 
  submarginal 
  golden 
  line. 
  

  

  Fciiial'. 
  Upperside, 
  Both 
  wings 
  orange-brown. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  

   costal 
  and 
  outer 
  margins 
  and 
  base 
  broadly 
  dark 
  brown.; 
  shoulder 
  bi'oadly 
  pale 
  

   orange-brown 
  ; 
  cell 
  dark 
  brown, 
  mottled 
  with 
  orange-brown, 
  a 
  dark 
  spot 
  at 
  end. 
  

   Posterior 
  wings, 
  base, 
  costal 
  and 
  upper 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  margins 
  broadly 
  

   dusky 
  brown. 
  

  

  Underside 
  pale 
  orange-brown, 
  gradually 
  becoming 
  paler 
  towards 
  the 
  inner 
  

   margin 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings 
  ; 
  the 
  spots 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  Init 
  larger, 
  as 
  are 
  also 
  the 
  

   two 
  curved 
  lines 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Mombasa 
  (Last). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Grose-Smith. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  III., 
  OCTOBER, 
  1903. 
  

  

  