African siJccies of the Lycaenesthes yroxi'p of Lycaenidae, 5 
Hew., Ill. Diurn., p. 224 (1878) ; id. H. H. Druce, Ann. 
Mag. N. H., 1890, p. 24; id. id. Sharpe, p. 105 (1890); id. 
Crowley, Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1890, p. 555; id. Smith 
and Kirby, Rhop. Exot., p. 110 (1894); id. Auriv., 1. c. m 
parte ; id. Beth.-Baker, Ann. Mag. N. H., 1903, p. 333. 
In creating this genus Aurivillius stated that it was 
very near Lycaenesthes, but differed through its quite 
naked eyes, through the almost straight costa of the 
primary, through the truncated inner edge of the second¬ 
ary, and through the much stronger build of the whole 
insect. 
I define it as follows— 
Caput and frons hairy, eyes glabrous or hairy more or less, palpi 
scaled, end segment longish, nearly naked, i.e. quite smooth. Thorax 
and wings robust. Wings ; costa of primaries nearly straight, broad 
and triangular ; secondaries less ample, termen truncated, anal angle 
reduced. Neuration : primaries, vein 2 at a third from the lower 
angle, 3 fr^m just before, 4 from the angle, 5 from about the middle 
of the discocellulars, 6 from just beyond the upper angle of the cell, 
8 stalked from 7 at half to a third from the apex, 9 absent, 10 
and 11 free from the cell ; secondaries, with two inner veins, la 
and 16 ; vein 2 given off from beyond the middle of the cell, 3 and 
4 from the lower angle, 5 from about the middle of the cell, 7 from 
the cell, 8 highly curved at the base and long. The genitalia are 
also very different to those of the following genera, the clasps 
especially being of a totally different structure, as will be seen from 
the descriptions of these organs. 
Type, Cupidesthes rolxista, Auriv. 
Prof. Aurivillius lias been so kind as to lend me 
his type, which is intermediate in size between the smaller 
leonina xnihi and the larger voltae, Sharpe. I am including 
several species in the genus with more or less hairy eyes 
they so obviously are of the same type of insect, being 
decidedly larger than Lycaexiesthes in one or both of the 
sexes, with the same class of pattern on the underside 
and similarly restricted blue, generally bright, on the 
upperside, so that I find it impossible to locate them 
elsewhere. I shall consider the eyes under each individual 
species. 
