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Mr. G. T. BiWunc-Baker’s Bevision of the 
Hah. SiEiiiiA Leone; Volta River; Nigeria 
(Northern and Southern) ; Togo ; Cameroons ; Gaboon ; 
Lower and Upper Gongo; Angola. 
Genitalia . —Harpago very broad, strongly convex on upper and 
lower edges, specially so on the former, gradually tapering down to 
the front edge, which is composed of two blunt teeth, the lower one 
larger than the upper ; the upper edge is also heavily dentate for its 
outer half. Cingula broadish, produced far back at its base. Tegumen 
highly excised at its front apex, with broad cheeks. Falces broad, 
curved evenly almost from their sockets. Furca rising from the 
middle of the harpagines, arms long, broadish, well curved back¬ 
wards. Penis sheath broad, expanding highly at a fifth from the 
base, suddenly contracted at a third from the semispherical top. 
Cheeks of tegumen and harpagines with numerous hairs. 
Lycaenesthes larydas, Cramer. (Plate VIII, fig. 21.) 
L. larydas, Cramer, Pap. Exot., iii, p. 160, PI. 282, H. 
(1780); id. Herbst.,Naturs. Schm., x, p. 287, PI. 290, f. 1 
(1800); id. Godart, Enc. Meth., ix, p. 619 (1823); id. 
Hew., Ill. D. Lep., p. 222, PI. 92, f. 40 (1878); id. Tri¬ 
men, S. Afr. Butt., ii, p. 96 (1887); id. Karscli, B. E. Z., 
p. 229 (1893); id. Auriv., Ptliop. Aethiop., p. 349 (1898); 
Pseudodypsas larydas, Stand., Exot. Schm., ii, p. 273 
(1888) ; 'pcrichs. Fab., Ent. S 3 'st., 3, i, p. 273 (1793); id. 
Donov., Ins. India, PL 42, f. 4 (1800) ; kerstem, Gerst., 
Archiv. Naturg., 37, i, p. 359 (1871) ; id. Deckens, Reise 
iii, p. 373, PI. 15, f. 5 (1873); id. Butler, P. Z. S., 1894, 
p. 568. 
. Both wings above very deep indigo blue. Underside dark brown 
almost entirely covered with the pattern. Primaries with a broad 
angled sub-basal double spot confluent at the lower margin of the 
cell, above this and above the spot closing the cell several small 
costal spots ; postmedian stripe broken up into three oblique parts, 
the second part shifted inwards and the final lowest spot inwards 
again. Secondaries with four or five sub-basal spots below each 
other, generally touching each other ; spot closing cell large ; post¬ 
median stripe broad, more or less confluent, but irregular in outline. 
These points are the main characters of differentiation 
of the underside. Kersteni, Gerst., has the same pat¬ 
tern, but very broadly edged with wliite and with white in 
the ground, which applies to the female as well, though by 
