African species of the Lycaenesthes group of Lycacnidae, 21 
Lycaenesthes ruhricinctus, Holland. 
L. ruhrieinetus, HolL, Psyche, p. 51 (1891); L. rubric 
cineta, S. & K., Rhop. Exot., p. 100, PI. XXII, ff. 11, 12 
(1893) ; id. Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., p. 349 (1898). 
^. Primaries entirely uniform brown above. Secondaries uni¬ 
formly brown above, except for a very broad yellow terminal band 
from the tornus up to vein 6. 
Hob. Kangwe ; Ogowe River. 
Type in the Carnegie Museum. 
I know this insect only from Smith and Kirby’s figures, 
and the upperside alone will serve to distinguish it from 
all others in the whole group. The very broad yellow 
marginal band of the secondaries is wholly unlike any 
other species dealt with in this paper. It is apparently a 
true Lycaenesthes (sens, strict.), and evidently belongs to 
the first division, viz. species without any basal marks in 
either wing. 
Lycaenesthes musagetes, Holl. (Plate V, fig. 5.) 
L. musagetes, Holl, Ent. News, iv, p. 25 (1898); id. 
Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., p. 349 (1898). 
. Both wings above very dark indigo purple ; below uniformly 
warm brown with spots no darker than the ground, or very little 
darker, with no basal or sub-basal spots in either wings. 
ITab. Cameroons ; Gaboon ; Sierra Leone ; Ogowe ; 
French Congo ; Volta River and Angola {Mus. Brit .); 
Rena Bendil (Congo); Makala, Beni, Mawambe 
(Upper Congo); Uganda. 
Type in the Carnegie Museum. 
This species can easily be recognised from its allies by 
the uniform brown colour, both of the ground and the 
spots of the underside. 
Genitalia .—Harpago very broad, the lower edge slightly curved, 
the upper edge gradually rising in a strong curve to about the 
middle, then tapering very slowly to the front upper apex, front edge 
produced into three strong teeth, highly excavated between each, one 
tooth being at the upper, one at the lower, apex, and one midway 
between them. Cingula with long arms or girdle, the hind base 
produced backwards into a blunt curved point, the arms of moderate 
width, very gradually expanding into the cheeks of the tegumen, 
