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PSYCHE. 



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Ground color pinkish white with the wings 

 barred and mottled by spots of brown and 

 black. Near the anal angle of the secondaries 

 are two red marginal spots pupilled with 

 black, irro rated with greenish-blue scales. 

 Expanse of wings 25 mm. 



Types, four $ $ in collection of au- 

 thor and one $ presented to the British 

 Museum. (Lycaenesthes scintillans 

 Holland, MS.) 



3. L. regillus, sp. nov. °- . Upperside 

 dark fuscous with white spaces and black 

 spots. The white spaces are located just be- 

 yond the cell and between the median ner- 

 vules upon the primaries, and are disposed 

 in the form of a marginal band upon the sec- 

 ondaries. Both wings have a conspicuous 

 black spot at the end of the cell denned in- 

 wardly by a narrow white line, and succeeded 

 externally by a transverse series of similar 

 spots. The primaries have in addition two 

 subbasal spots of black. Both wings are bor- 

 dered heavily with black and the posteriors 

 have in addition geminate white marginal 

 lines. Underside : — The ground color of the 

 wings is white. The markings have a general 

 likeness to those of the preceding species, but 

 owing to the lighter ground color of the 

 wings they are more conspicuous. Expanse 

 of wings 25 mm. Type, $, in collection of 

 the writer. 



It is barely possible that this is the 

 female of L. scintillula, but I hes'tate 

 to declare it such and name it provision- 

 ally. 



4. L. lychnaptes, sp. nov. Allied to the 

 two preceding species and to L. leptines 

 Hew. 



$. Upperside: — Antennae, head, thorax, 

 and abdomen black; wings shining orange- 

 red, the anteriors with the costa broadly and 

 evenly bordered with black and the outer 



margin bordered with the same color, the 

 width of the border gradually diminishing 

 from the apex to the outer angle. The pos- 

 terior wings are broadly bordered with blacl 

 upon the costal and inner margins, and nar- 

 rowly upon the outer margin near the ana' 

 angle. Underside: — The ground color o: 

 the wings is black, both have black fringes 

 both have narrow, geminate white marginal 

 lines, and both are traversed by irregular se- 

 ries of more or less broken narrow whiti 

 lines. The posterior wings are adornec' 

 with a small black spot at the extremity o! 

 the first median nervule, crowned with ret 

 and irrorated with blue scales, and with ; 

 similar black spot, at the end of the subme 

 dian nerve. This latter spot is not crownec 

 with red. 



Expanse of wings 20 mm. Types in col- 

 lection of the writer. 



There is a female which is upon the 

 under surface almost the exact counter- 

 part of the male just described, but the 

 upperside of the wings is almost uni- 

 formly blackish brown. Whether this 

 is the female of L. lychnaptes, or not, 

 it is impossible to tell at this time, 

 though the presumption is that this sur- 

 mise as to the relation of the two forms 

 is correct. 



5. L. rubricinctus, sp. nov. Male: — Up- 

 perside : — Head, thorax, and abdomen dark 

 brown. Wings dark fuscous except upon 

 the margin of the secondaries, which are 

 adorned by a band of orange red extending 

 from the upper radial to the anal angle. This 

 band is marked at each of the intra-neural 

 spaces by a marginal spot of black, of which 

 that situated between the first and second 

 median nervules is the largest. Underside : — 

 The ground color is pale fawn color, grow- 

 ing paler toward the outer margin, and be- 

 coming almost white near the outer margin 

 of the secondaries. Both wings have a short 



