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PSYCHE. 



[M:irch 1891. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW WEST AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE ; 



PAPER II. * 



BY W. J. HOLLAND, PITTSBURGH, PA. 



The following descriptions have been 

 lying in my portfolio for some time, and 

 I have been intending to add to them 

 descriptions of a dozen or more other 

 species which are manifestly nonde- 

 script, but finding no time at my com- 

 mand in which to execute this purpose, 

 I herewith present them as they are. 

 The insects all come from the region of 

 the upper waters of the Ogove River in 

 West Tropical Africa, and were cap- 

 tured by Mr. Good. 



Pittsburgh, Jan. 31, 1 Sy 1 . 



PSEUD ALETIS Druce. 



1. P. zebra, sp. nov. Upperside : — Head 

 and thorax yellowish brown, abdomen white 

 ringed with pale gray, and tufted at the anal 

 extremity with fulvous. Anterior wings 

 white, faintly laved near the base with stra- 

 mineous, and narrowly bordered upon the 

 costa and broadly bordered upon the outer 

 margin with black, and further ornamented 

 by three broad black bands, the first and 

 shortest of which crosses the cell about the 

 middle, the next is situated at the extremity 

 of the cell, and a third, which runs from the 

 costa about one-third of the distance from 

 the apex, across the wing in the direction of 

 the outer angle until it is fused with the 

 broad black external margin. The posterior 

 wings are white with a black border, narrow 

 at the external angle and gradually increasing 

 in width toward the anal angle. The tails 

 are very small and black. Underside: — 

 Thorax, abdomen and legs fulvous. Ground 



* For Paper I see Psyche, v. 5, p 423. 



color of the wings white. The anterior wing 

 is marked as upon the upper surface except 

 that the cell at the base is deeply black, the 

 two outermost of the broad black bands are 

 traversed in the middle by a narrow whitish 

 line, while the white of the surface replaces 

 the dark outer margin from the outer angle 

 upwards for half of the distance to the apex. 

 The fringe is black. The posterior wings 

 are marked by a ray of dark brown running 

 from the base along the submedian nervure 

 about halfway to the anal angle. Two faint 

 brown lines run transversely across the wing 

 in a direction approximately parallel to the 

 outer margin toward the anal angle, and two 

 similar lines run parallel along the inner 

 margin and all converge in the neighborhood 

 of the anal angle, which is broadly laved 

 with yellow and marked by two small black 

 spots at the points where the tails are given 

 off. The outer margin is fringed with black. 

 The markings of the underside of the poste- 

 rior wings re-appear to some extent upon 

 the upper surface. Type, $ , in the collec- 

 tion of the author. 



LYCAENESTHES Moore. 



2. L. scintillula, sp. nov. £. Upper- 

 side : — Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen 

 black; wings lustrous orange-red with the' 

 costa of the primaries at the base and near 

 the apex somewhat broadly margined with 

 black, and the costa and the inner margin of 

 the secondaries very broadly margined with 

 the same color. The fringes of both wings 

 are black and near the anal angle of the sec- 

 ondaries there are three small black spots, of 

 which two are marginal, and the third is sit- 

 uated above the one nearest the anal angle 

 and is subhastate in form. Underside: — 



