136 LF-OYd's natural mSTOUV. 



Aslaiiga, Kirby, is a genus including only two species from 

 West Africa, A. vininga (Hewitson) and A. uiarginalis, Kirby. 

 The wings are long, thick, somewhat obtuse, and in the first 

 species, produced at the tip of the fore-wings, with a very con- 

 vex hind-margin, while the hind-margin of the hind-wings is 

 rounded and convex in the middle, and triangularly toothed 

 bjlow, before the anal angle. A. vininga is dark blue above, 

 and dark grey below ; A. marginalis^ which some authors 

 regard as the female of the former, has regularly rounded oval 

 wings, and is tawny-yellow, with broad black borders. 



The only Asiatic species of this group is a very remarkable 

 Butterfly. 



GENUS LIPHYRA. 



Liphyra, Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1864, p. 31 ; 



Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 204 (1884); Schatz & Rober, 



Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 282 (1892). 

 Sfcrjsis, Felder, Reise Novara, Lepid. ii. p. 219 (1865). 



The single species of this genus has a wide range from India 

 to Halmahcra. It is a very large stout brown and tawny 

 Butterfly, nearly three inches across the wings, much more 

 resembling a species of the South American genus Brassolis 

 (whence its name), or some large species of Hesperiidce than 

 any other known Lyccenidce. 



LIPHYRA BRASSOLIS. 



Llp/iyra hj'assolis, Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1S64, 

 p. 31 ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 204, pi. 22, fig. 18 (18S4); 

 Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 269, pi. 94 (1886). 



Sterosis rohnsta^ Felder, Reise Novara, Lepid. ii. p. 219, pi. 27, 

 figs. 10, II (1865). 



This is a Butterfly with a very stout body, short thick 



