African species of the Lycaencstlics group of Lycaeniclae, 45 
no means to so great an extent, as the female of laryclas 
(sens, strict.) has much more white below than the male. 
In the male the two forms are easily separable, but they 
fly together, and the genitalia are the same. 
Hah. Sierra Leone ; Assinie ; Ashanti ; Togo ; 
Nigeria; Old Calabar; Cameroons; Congo; An¬ 
gola; Natal; Kaffraria; Delagoa Bay; AIanica- 
LAND; N. W. Rhodesia; Makala (Upper Congo); 
Albert Edward Nyanza; Toro, Uganda; British 
East Africa; German East Africa; Uganda; 
Ruwenzori. 
This species is probably the most widely distributed of 
all, and the commonest. There should be no difficulty in 
determining it at a glance, as, with the exception of L. 
crawshayi — a smaller and much more delicate-looking 
species—there is nothing quite like its underside pattern. 
Genitalia. —Harpago shortisli with basal half broad gradually 
tapering to a blunt fore extremity (ham-shaped), from the main con¬ 
striction a long, strong, horn-like tusk is emitted on the upperside 
and (.‘xtends forward to the apex. Cingula shortish, strongly 
developed, of moderate width, extended backwards at its lower 
extremity into a short, strong process at right angles with the main 
sides. Tegumen very specialised, highly excised in the front apex, 
slightly so at the back with the neck raised into a high saddle ; the 
cheeks are broad, extended well forward, terminating in a gradually 
tapering blunt point above and below. The falces are moderately 
short, strong and curved forward nearly from their origin. The 
furca has rapidly-expanding arms, slightly excised on the hinder 
eJge for the upper half, and are nearly erect. The penis sheath is 
short for the size of the insect, very broad for its hinder half, sud¬ 
denly constricted and narrow for its apical portion, the orifice 
ending in a tapered point. The cheeks of the tegumen are well 
furnished with long, strong hairs, and the apex of the harpagines 
has also a few hairs distributed at the end and its lower portion. 
Lycaenesthes craiushayi, Butler. (Plates II, fig. 6 ; 
VIII, fig. 22.) 
L. craivshayi, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H., 1899, p. 342. 
. Upperside blue in both wings, sub-lustrous lilacine, with ter- 
men finely dark brown. Secondaries with a dark spot at the anal 
angle and another between veins 2 and 3. Underside pale greyish 
