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upperside the male is deep glossy shining purple, the outer margins of both wings narrowly 
black ; the costal margin of the hindwing, bounded posteriorly and sharply by the subcostal 
nervure and its second branch, also black. On the underside the forewing has a dark brown 
spot across the middle of the cell, outwardly defined with whitish, a round spot below this one 
exactly posterior to the base of the first median nervule, a large spot closing the cell, with two 
below it and in the same straight line, divided by the first median nervule, and a discal series of 
four conjoined spots, some indistinct marginal lunular markings ; the disc of the wing is 
suffused with pale ferruginous. The markings of the hindwing are difficult to trace, as those on 
the disc are all run together into a large brownish-fuscous patch, leaving a sirgle Jarge round 
spot on the costa nearits middle alone free; the marginal markings are more prominent 
than in the forewing. 
The figure shews both sides of amale specimen from Sikkim in my collection taken 
early in Maye 
I am rather doubtful about the propriety of the position in the order of the genera of the 
Lycenide that I have assigned to the two genera which follow. They agree with the genera 
which immediately precede them in not possessing a somewhat long filiform tail from the ter- 
mination of the first median nervule of the hindwing, which is characteristic of the next group 
of ‘* Blues.” They however disagree from both the tailed and tailless “ Blues” in the robust- 
ness of their structure and in the swiftness of their flight, in these respects agreeing much 
better with the ‘* Hairstreaks.” In the structure of the veins these two genera present no 
peculiarities whatever, nor have they any secondary sexual characters on the wings of the 
male, The first genus, Zycenesthes, Moore, however, is unique amongst Indian Lycenide in 
possessing two or three elongated tufts of cilia towards the anal angle of the hindwing, which, 
owing to their extreme delicacy, are very liable to be destroyed. This genus appears to be well 
represented in Africa. A few species occur in tropical India and from Malayana to Northern 
Australia. The transformations of one species of this genus are known. The oiher genus, 
Niphanda, Moore, is probably much more restricted in its range,and is much smaller in the 
number of species it contains, two only having with certainty been placed in it, One occurs 
only in Sikkim, the other only in the Malay Peninsula. Very little is known about either, and 
their transformations have yet to be discovered. 
Genus 114.-LYCZENESTHES, Moore. (PLate XXVI). 
Lycenesthes, Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 7733 id., Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, 
p- 343; idem, id., Lep. Cey., vol. 1, p. 87 (1881); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 232 (1884) ;id., ‘Trimen, 
South-Afr. Butt., vol. ii, p. 93 (1887), 
* WINGs, moderately broad. FOREWING, with the costal margin arched at the base, apex 
rather acute, outer margin siightly oblique ; sedcostal nervure with its first branch arising at 
one-third the length of the wing, second and third equi-distant, fourth remote, fifth joined at the 
base to the third. HINDWING, rounded exteriorly, two small very fine tail-like fascicles of hair 
near the anal angle. Zyes hairy ; palpi long, compressed, porrect, third joint long, attenuated, 
half the length of the second ; aztenne slender at the base, thickened near the end, which is 
finely pointed ; /egs moderate, femora slightly pilose beneath, mid and hind tibize with two 
short apical spurs 5 ¢horax and abdomen robust.” (Moore, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.) 
In the type species in the forewing the costal nervure terminates about opposite to the 
apex of the discoidal cell, the bases of the first and second subcostal and upper discoidal ner- 
vules are about equi-distant, the third subcostal nervule is long, given off from the subcostal 
nervure nearer to the apex of the cell than of the wing ; middle disco-cellular nervule shorter 
than the lower, slightly outwardly oblique ; lower disco-cellular straight, upright ; second median 
nervule given off some little distance before the lower end of the cell. In the hindwing the 
upper disco-cellular nervule is recurved, outwardly oblique ; the lower is straight, upright ; the 
second median nervule given off nearer to the lower end of the cell than it is in the forewing. 
The venation of this genus is most ordinary ; it does not present a single peculiarity, nor 
has the male any secondary sexual characters, ZLycenesthes differs, however, from all other 
