African species of the Lycaenesthes group of Lycaenidae. 23 
with bright red, this edging extending into a bright dash above the 
angle. 
Expanse 32-34 mm. 
Hah. Beni, Makala and Mawambe (Congo Free 
State), February. 
Type in my collection. 
I have a series of this species which is closely allied to 
L. musagetes, but is readily distinguished by the orange 
brown of the underside, by the markings being decidedly 
reduced in size, and by the postmedian stripe of the 
secondaries being largely filled in with orange red. 
Genitalia .—Harpago broad, wall curved above and below, con¬ 
stricted slightly near the front, with upper and lower extremities 
forming a strong, sharp, projecting tooth. Cingula widish, expanding 
into the tegumen, which is deeply excised at its front apex, with the 
cheeks gradually sloping off and not very broad. Falces strong, 
curved near the middle. Furca with longish arms, curved backwards. 
Penis sheath broadish, moderately even in width, with a curved, 
oblique tip. Cheeks of tegumen and apices of harpagines well 
supplied with long hairs. 
Lycaenesthes ligures, Hew. (Plate V, fig. 7.) 
L. ligures, Hew., Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1874, p. 349 ; Ill. 
D. Lep., p. 2'20, PI. 90, ff. 1, 2 (1878); id. Auriv., Rhop. 
Aethiop., p. 849 (1898); L. ukerewensis, Strand, Ent. 
Zeitsch, xxiii, p. 127 (1909) in parte. 
Separable from its near allies by the three sub-basal spots across 
the secondaries. The female, hitherto undescribed, is entirely pale 
brown, with a broad, obscure, whitish terminal area in the second¬ 
aries, in which are two preterminal broadish lines, the outer one the 
darker of the two, a prominent dark spot at the anal angle and one 
above it. Below the colour is quite white, the pattern following that 
of the male, but larger and broader. The Sierra Leone specimens are 
very much greyer in shade and of a smoother texture than those 
from Central or Eastern Equatorial Africa. In a series of the insect 
thfey are recognisable at a glance. 
Hah. Sierra Leone ; Ashanti ; Old Calabar ; Came- 
ROONS; Gaboon; Congo; Angola; Upper Congo 
(Makala, Mawambe) ; Toro, Nandi. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genitalia .—Harpago broad, similar in outline to L. musagetes, but 
the front edge has but two teeth, the upper and lower extremity only 
