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Mr. G. T. l!^^une-Baker’s Revision of the 
understand he will figure it in his paper, I would refer my 
readers to his plate and description. 
Genus Lycaenesthes, Moore. 
Synonymy : Lycaena, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., p. 234 
(1866); Lycacnedhes, Moore, P. Z. S., 1866, p. 773; id. Hew., 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1874, p. 343; Ill. Diurn. Lep., 
p. 219 (1878); id. Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i, p. 87 (1881); id. 
Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 232 (1884); id. Trimen, S. A. 
Butt., ii, p. 93 (1887); id. de Nic^ville, Butt. Ind., iii, p. 127 
(1890); id. Karsch, B. E. Z., p. 214 (1893); id. Reuter, Act. 
Soc. Sc. Fen., 22, i, p. 182 (1896); id. Auriv., Rhop. 
Aethiop., p. 345 (1898); id. id. Arkiv. Zook, ii, p. 16 (1905); 
id. Holland, Psyche, vi, p. 50 (1891); id. id. Ent. News, 
iv, p. 25 (1893); id. Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot., ii, p. 
97 (1893) ; id. id. iii, p. 137 (1901) ; Pseudodypsas, Reuter, 
1. c. 
“ Eyes hairy. Palpi long, compressed porrect; third joint long, 
attenuated, half the length of the second. Legs moderate ; femora 
slightly pilose beneath ; mid and hind tibiae with two short apical 
spurs. Antennae slender at the base, thickened near the end which 
is finely pointed. Thorax and abdomen robust. Wings moderately 
broad; f.w. with costal margin arched at the base ; apex rather 
acute; exterior margin slightly oblique ; subcostal vein with 
first branch arising at one-third the length of the wing, second 
and third equidistant, fourtli remote, fifth joined at the base to the 
third; h.w. rounded exteriorly; two small very fine tail-like 
fascicles of hair near anal angle. Lycaenesthes bengalensis type( = 
moZtts).”—(P. Z. S., 1865, p. 773.) 
The African sjDecies agree entirely in neuration and 
other generic characters with the type named by Moore, 
whilst the species themselves (sens, strict.) follow the 
general pattern of the underside in a remarkably constant 
manner. The neuration has nothing remarkable about it, 
and may be defined thus— 
“ Primaries with vein 2 from well beyond the middle of the cell, 
3 from in front of the lower angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from just 
above the middle of the discocellulars, 6 from the upper angle, 7 
and 8 stalked about a third from the apex, 7 being emitted from near 
the end of the cell, 9 absent, 10 and 11 from the cell; secondaries, 2 
from just beyond the middle of the cell, 3 from close to the angle, 4 
