LYCENII).^. 23 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Ivinsembo, Congo ( W. Doncasler). Angola. — 

 Coll. Brit. Mus. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Gaboon. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



124. (6.) Lycaena CafifrariaB, sp. nov. 



S ? Lyccena Asteris, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 247, n. 148 

 (1S66). 



Uxp. al., {$) I iu. 6-y\ lin. ; ($) i iu. 6-9 lin. 



^ Glittering pale violaceous-blue, with a slight pinkish tinge ; 7iarro%u 

 hlackish hind-marginal edging, linear in hind- wing and at p)osterior 

 angle of fore-wing ; cilia whiter than in L. glauca or L. 2^((-tricia, espe- 

 cially in hind-iving. Fore-wing : terminal disco-cellular mark linear, 

 faintly marked, or nearly obsolete ; costa very thinly edged with greyish- 

 fuscous, radiating on subcostal nervules. Hind-iuing : costa bordered 

 with dull-greyish above first subcostal nervule ; just before hind-margin 

 from apex, a parallel fuscous streak, becoming widely broken into small, 

 more or less indistinct spots, below second subcostal nervule ; black 

 hind-marginal spot between first and second median nervules, inwardly 

 bounded by aii inconspicuous rather pale ochrey-yellow lunule ; often 

 traces of a smaller similar spot below first median nervule ; tail short, 

 edged and tipped with white. Under side. — Broionish-grey ; trans- 

 verse markings darker, conspicuously edged with white on hoth sides. 

 Fore-wing : terminal disco-cellular mark moderately wide, reniform ; 

 in discal row two lowest spots smaller than the rest, and third spot 

 sometimes prolonged inwardly, so as to touch disco-cellular mark ; 

 outer lohite edge of discal roiv fused ivith inner sichmarginal roio of white 

 lunules ; outer suhmarginal roiv constituting an almost straight and con- 

 tinuous denticulated streak. Hind-wing : a sub-basal row of four small 

 black-ringed spots (of which the third, between median and submediau 

 nervures, is sometimes wanting) ; first and last spots of discal row also 

 black, small, white-ringed, hut the rest enlarged and confluent, and the 

 second and third sjyofs p)rolonged inwardly, and cither confluent ivith or 

 touching the long, curved, narrow, termincd, disco-cellular mark ; outer 

 white edge of discal row more or less completely confluent with suffused 

 sagittiform lunules of inner submarginal row ; rings formed by lunules 

 of outer row with hind-marginal white line complete, but thin, and 

 pointed on inner side ; hind-marginal black spot outwardly spangled 

 with bluish-silvery, the lunule inwardly bounding it thin, pointed, in- 

 conspicuous, pale-yellow. 



$ Resemhling the $ Patricia, hut darker ; the blue suffusion more 

 glittering, but less extended outivardly. Fore-wing : terminal disco-cel- 

 lular dark spot conspicuous and well developed, but not quite so broad ; 



