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Mr. G. T. BdiTuue -Baker’s Revision of the 
Lycaenesthes hike, sp, nov. (Plate I, fig. 15.) 
Both wings brightish purple. Primaries with broad brown 
costa and broader apex tapering very rapidly to about vein 5, from 
whence the termen is quite fine. Secondaries with costa broadly 
brown, termen linear, a black spot on the margin between veins 2 
and 3, and another at the angle broadly edged above with orange. 
Underside ; both wings pale grey with darker spots edged with white. 
Primaries with a spot closing the cell with whitish central line; 
postmedian band consisting of seven small spots, two below the 
costa, two shifted outwards, the fifth spot oblique right inwards, 
sixth oblique also right inwards, seventh slightly curved far inwards 
and isolated ; subterminal line definite, scalloped. Secondaries 
with two basal sjjots, one small one almost tawny on vein 8 and one 
blackish one on the inner margin ; a large quadrate spot closes the 
cell witli a pale central line ; postmedian band very irregular in 
pairs, a pair on the costa, a pair shifted right out detached, a pair 
right inwards, the lower of which is further in, fourth pair forming 
the angled spot right inwards and detached ; subterminal line fairly 
distinct, a good deal of whitish between it and the postmedian line, 
small black spot on the margin between veins 2 and 3, with a few 
metallic scales margined with bright orange red, a similar minute 
spot at the angle, wdth a largish round orange-red spot above it, over 
which also are some metallic scales. 
Expanse 31 mm. 
Hah. Bihe District, Angola. 
Type in my collection. 
This is a well-marked species allied to liodes, Hew., but 
recognisable by its darker and more purple colour, by the 
red spots at the anal angle of the upperside, and by the 
sub-basal spot on the undersurface of the secondaries being 
red. 
Lycaenesthes livida, Trimen. (Plate VI, fig. 12.) 
L. livida, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Bond., 1881, p. 443; 
id: S. Afr. Butt., p. 103, PI. 7, ff. 7-7 a (1887); id. Auriv., 
Rhop. Aethiop., p. 348 (1898); L. hutlcri, Auriv., Rhop. 
Exot., p. 348 (1898); Lycaena hutleri, Oberth., An. Mus. 
Genov., p. 170, PI. I, f. 2 (1880). 
^. Both wings blui.sh grey. Primaries with costa broadly brown, 
termen more broadly, and apex yet more so ; a dark dash closes the 
cell. Secondaries, rather bluer than the primaries, with a sub¬ 
terminal scalloped line, the usual black anal spots bordered inter- 
