502 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker’s Notes on Lycaenidae 
Undersurface. Both wings milky white with a narrowish post- 
median stripe of orange. Primaries with orange stripe erect but 
slightly irregular, a subterminal narrow grey stripe, terminal area 
broadly grey. Secondaries with the orange stripe with a defined 
w at the anal angle, a fine crenulate subterminal line to the first 
anal ocellation. Termen finely black followed by a fine white line 
which is succeeded by a grey stripe broad at the apex but tapering 
rapidly to the ocellated spot, this spot is oblong deep velvety black 
with an orange edging, anal lobe spot velvety black with a few 
blue metallic scales and an upper and outer edging of deep orange 
which extends up in a narrow line to join the postmedian orange 
stripe on the inner margin. 
2. Both wings dull brown. Primaries without any markings. 
Secondaries with the termen finely black followed by a fine white 
line and with a sub-terminal whitish suffusion, a darkish spot 
on the margin between veins 2 and 3 and another at the lobe with 
a slight pale blue metallic suffusion and an orange line on its inner 
edge. Underside similar to the male, but the orange coloration 
is yellow with the exception of the outer edging to the lobe spot 
which is red. 
Expanse ¢ 30, 9 32 mm. 
Type 3 in the Oxford Museum from Oni, near Lagos, 
reared by Mr. Lamborn. Type 2 in my collection from 
the Bassa Province, Northern Nigeria. 
See also p. 471. 
Hypolycaena nigra, sp. n. 
3§: Both wings blackish brown. Primaries practically with no 
blue, though in certain lights it is possible to imagine a slightest 
trace of steely blue on the fold. Secondaries with a very little 
more bluish trace, the ground colour lobe spot encircled interiorly 
with white, a small defined white spot touching the black marginal 
patch between veins 1 and 2, with a smaller indefinite one above it, 
outside which nearer the termen is another defined small white 
spot, two tails a long one by the lobe and a short one from vein 2. 
Underside. Both wings white with the usual markings of the 
genus. Primaries with an even orange oblique postmedian stripe 
finely edged with black on each side, a submarginal line interrupted 
at the veins, margin at apex broadly grey tapering rapidly down 
to a fine line about vein 2. Secondaries with a slightly oblique 
orange stripe just beyond the cell which is deeply angled near the 
anal angle and continued upwards to vein la, this stripe is edged 
