African species of the Lycaencsthes group of Lycaenidae. 35 
nally with yellow; a dark spot closes the cell. The underside may 
be recognised at once by the fact that there is only one sub-basal 
spot, a small dark round one below vein 8. 
A large female from the Kikuyu District, agreeing 
entirely Avith Oberthiir’s description and figure of hutUri, 
differs somewhat from Trimen’s description on the upper- 
side. The blue is brighter and the area more definite, 
being confined to the cell, the fold and the lower 
radial area below vein 3; there is a dark spot in the angle 
of vein 2. In the secondaries the blue is as in the 
primaries but diffused, with a short postmedian row of 
confluent spots from vein 2 to 6. The underside is quite 
typical, paler than the male. 
Hah. Cape Colony ; Natal (Mulkolomba Mountains); 
Kikuyu District {Coll. Bethune-Baker) ; Abyssinia. 
Genitalia. —The harpago is very full with rounded outline above 
and below, the fore part of the upper edge being strongly and evenly 
excised ; the cingula of moderate development, somewhat produced 
backwards at the base, developing more heavily towards the tegumen, 
which is large and copious, well excised at apex in the front, less so 
at the back ; the falces are long and well curved with the tip slightly 
hooked ; the furca is longish with narrow arms and rising from near 
the middle of the harpagines; the penis sheath is long, highly 
enlarged for two-thirds of its length in the middle with a trumpet- 
shaped orifice. 
Lyeaencsthes millari, Trimen. (Plate VI, fig. 13.) 
L. millari, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1893, p. 133, 
PI. 8, f. 9; id. Auriv., Rhop. Aetliiop., p. 348 (1898). 
^. On the uppersurface this species is exceedingly close to 
Uvula, Trim., but the blue is paler, less extensive, and more distinct ; 
in its undersurface it can be at once recognised by the fact that it 
has on the secondaries a series of three or four dark sub-basal small 
spots, one below vein 8, one or two in the cell, and one on the 
abdominal margin. This character is a prominent feature. 
Hah, Natal (Tugela River). 
Genitalia. —The harpago is a broad oblong with the upper front 
edge rounded off to the lower extremity ; the cingula is broad, well 
developed, the basal extremity being produced backwards in a long 
horn; the tegumen very ample in the hood, whose front edges are 
nearly straight, moderately excised at the apex, scarcely at all at 
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