African species of the Lycaenesthes group of Lycaenidae. 25 
upper part of the tip cut off for nearly a third, and gradually taper¬ 
ing to the tip. Cheeks of tegumen well supplied with hairs, there 
being but few on the harpagines. 
Lycaenesthes indefinita, sp. nov. (Plates I, figs. 7 $-8 
V. fig. 9.) 
^. Upperside : both wings deep brownish purple with linear black 
margins with pale extremities. Underside : both wings brownish 
grey with slightly darker pattern with pale edging. Primaries with 
a large subquadrate spot closing the cell, the postmedian band con¬ 
sisting of seven spots, the first four confluent curved, the next two 
confluent shifted inwards, the last spot shifted right in, the outer 
margin being almost confluent with the inner margin of the sixth 
spot; a trace of a subterminal band. Secondaries with three sub-basal 
spots, viz. one on vein 8, one in the cell, and one on the inner margin ; 
a large quadrate spot closes the cell. Postmedian band with the 
second spot shifted outwards, third and fourth almost confluent also 
shifted out, fifth inwards, sixth inwards, angled spot inwards again ; 
subterminal band more distinct, a black spot between veins 2 and 3 
and at the angle, with metallic-blue scales, and edged above and 
laterally with deep yellow. 
Expanse 35 mm. 
5. Both wings brown. Primaries with pale bluish below the cell 
and vein 3. Secondaries with the radial area up to the termen pale 
bluish, the subterniinal band dividing it and the black spot between 
veins 2 and 3 prominent, edged above with deep yellow. Underside : 
both wings quite white, but with the pattern practically as in the ^. 
Hah. Kikuyu, 6,000 feet; Toro, February; Nairobi, 
Uganda, Kikuyu, Njoro and Ruwenzori {British 
Museum) ; Mau Escarpment {Tring Museum). 
Types in my collection, also in the British Museum and 
at Tring. 
The species is slightly variable as to the fracturing of 
the postmedian band of the primaries. It is more closely 
allied to L. hohleyiy Neave, than to ligures, Hew., but it has 
no red at all below, and the postmedian fasciae in both 
wings are broad and confluent to a degree quite unattained 
in either of those species. 
Genitalia .—Harpago exceedingly broad, with the lower edge deeply 
shouldered at a quarter from the lower apex and produced forward 
into a gouge-shaped extremity, the upper edge being furnished with 
two strong teeth at about a quarter from the apex. Cingula with a 
short basal backward process, longish arms expanding but slightly ; 
