African species of the Lycaenesthes group of Lycacnidae. 13 
{Mincliin)-, Gold Coast {Dudgeon)-, Volta River {in 
]\his. Brit.). 
Types, ^ in my collection, ^ in coll. Gator. 
When I described this species originally, from Sierra 
Leone, I was much puzzled as to the sex in the absence 
of the forelegs; since that time, however, I have received 
an undoubted male from the Upper Congo, and the British 
Museum have also received a male, which though entirely 
brown above is certainly the same species, the latter mates 
well with my Busoga 
Gupidesthes brunneus, Smith and Kirby, 
Lycaenesthes brunneus, S. & K., Rbop. Exot, p. 106, 
PI. XXIII, £f. 18, 14 ; L. br'unnca, Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., 
p. 348 (1898). 
9. Uppersicle uniformly brown in both wings. Secondaries 
with a terminal row of black spots, decreasing rapidly to the apex 
where they become minute, the row is finely edged laterally with 
whitish. Underside uniformly brown with numerous whitish lines 
in both wings. Secondaries with two small dark spots on the 
costa. 
Hab. Ogowe River. 
Type in the Carnegie Museum. 
I only know this species from Smith and Kirby’s figures, 
but it is evidently near my C. leonina. The pattern 
below is, however, quite different, and it has no white 
ground-colour at all, either above or below. I think there 
is not much doubt that I am right in placing the species 
in this genus. 
Gupidesthes mimetica, Druce. (M.S.) 
This species ditiers from the preceding in being practically all 
white both above and below, the pattern below is also different, 
being much broken up. 
Hab. Bitje ; Ja River, Cameroons. 
Type in the Druce collection. 
Mr. Druce has let me see this species before his descrip¬ 
tion has appeared. It is a very distinct insect, quite 
different from others of the genus. Its clear, cream-white 
wings should make it recognisable at a glance, and as I 
