﻿LYC.ENID.E.-(ArpacAN). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XXIX. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  LYC^ENESTHES. 
  

  

  XYIL— 
  LYC.ENESTHES 
  LYCOTAS. 
  i. 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  «. 
  Fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  Liiconi'^thcs 
  Lijcotas, 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  " 
  Novitates 
  ZoologiciB," 
  Yol. 
  Y., 
  

   p. 
  350 
  (1898). 
  

  

  Ex}). 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Uppersidk. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  dark 
  brown, 
  with 
  a 
  hirge 
  i)ale 
  orange 
  

   spot 
  extending 
  over 
  the 
  two 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervules 
  and 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  disc 
  

   to 
  the 
  sub-median 
  nervure 
  ; 
  this 
  spot 
  is 
  rounder 
  and 
  broader 
  than 
  in 
  L. 
  Zachares, 
  

   Hew. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  four 
  bluish 
  grey 
  lunules 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  

   disc, 
  outside 
  which 
  are 
  two 
  submarginal 
  narrow 
  grey 
  lines 
  ; 
  an 
  obscure 
  black 
  

   spot 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervules 
  near 
  the 
  margin, 
  narrowly 
  

   crowned 
  with 
  orange. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  White, 
  with 
  dark 
  bars 
  and 
  markings 
  as 
  in 
  L. 
  Ldchdirs, 
  but 
  

   much 
  broader 
  and 
  more 
  strongly 
  marked, 
  the 
  dark 
  bar 
  which 
  crosses 
  the 
  cell 
  

   about 
  the 
  middle 
  becoming 
  very 
  broad 
  below 
  the 
  cell 
  and 
  extending 
  nearly 
  to 
  

   the 
  base. 
  On 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  towards 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  are 
  three 
  submarginal 
  

   l)lack 
  spots, 
  dusted 
  with 
  metallic 
  scales, 
  crowned, 
  except 
  the 
  middle 
  spot, 
  with 
  

   orange. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Resembles 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  orange 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  is 
  

   rather 
  paler 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  the 
  lunules 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  disc 
  are 
  

   more 
  obscure 
  and 
  not 
  bluish, 
  and 
  the 
  black 
  spot 
  near 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  is 
  crowned 
  

   with 
  grey 
  instead 
  of 
  orange. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Bopoto, 
  Upper 
  Congo 
  (Balfern). 
  

  

  lu 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Hou. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  III., 
  OCTOBER, 
  1901. 
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