African species of the Lycaenesthes group of Lycaenidae. 81 
with narrow arms united for a third from the base. Penis sheath 
very broad for its hinder three-fifths, then slowly tapering to a 
blunt oblique tip. Tegumen well furnished with long, strong hairs, 
harpagines with hairs shorter and finer. 
Lycaenesthes smithi, Mabille. (Plate I, fig. 13.) 
L. smithi, Mab., An. Eut. Fr. (5) 7, Bull. 72 (1877); 
id. Hist. Madag. Lep., i, p. 213, PI. 27, ff. 9-11 (1887); 
? lochias. Hew., Ill. D. Lep., p. 221, PI. 90, tf. 7, 8 (1878); id. 
Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., p. 348 (1898). 
A very rare species, of a cupreous lilac in both wings with very 
fine dark margins. The undersurface is pale brownish grey wdth 
broad white margins to the spots. In the secondaries there is a 
blue sub-basal spot below vein 8 white-edged, whilst the black 
iridescent spot between veins 2 and 3 is edged internally with 
crimson, a most unusual colour in this genus, orange and orange 
red being almost universal. 
Hah. Madagascar. 
I am indebted to M. Mabille for the loan of this type, 
which is in his collection. I have little doubt that it is a 
local form of L. princeps, Butler, 
Lycaenesthes princeps, Butler. (Plates I, fig. 17; 
VII, fig. 15.) 
L. princeps, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H., 1876, p. 484; id. 
Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., p. 349 (1898) ; L. neglecta. Trimen, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1891, p. 175 ; id. id. p. 132, PI. 8, 
ff. 7, 8 (1893); id. Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., p. 348 (1898). 
cj. Both wings a delicate cupreous lilac colour with very fine 
dark terminal lines ; the underside is a delicate shade of grey with 
a cupreous lustre in parts in certain lights, the distinguishing 
feature being two subcostal dark spots in the secondaries, the one 
sub-basal below vein 8, and the second forming first spot of the 
postmedian line ; there is also present a similar dark spot on the 
abdominal margin ; this, however, is liable to obsoletion, and I 
have one specimen in which it is totally absent. The female is 
greyish brown with a very restricted bluish base in both wings, 
the underside presenting no difference whatever to that of the 
male. 
