African species of the Lycaenesthes group of Lycaenidae. 4-7 
the cell all across the wing ; postniedian stripe divided into two 
parts, the costal portion oblique, and the lower part less oblique but 
shifted right inwards, a double terminal line, the inner one being 
broad. Secondaries, with a broad, irregular basal dash, a spot closing 
the cell ; postmedian stripe very irregular, the first spot on the costa 
large dark, second small and paler, third and fourth confluent 
shifted outwards, fifth and sixth inwards and smaller, seventh and 
eighth angled spot dark and shifted right inwards ; a strongly-curved 
subterminal line, an anal black terminal spot with a second between 
veins 2 and 3, with iridescent scales and the latter edged with 
yellow’. 
5. Brown above. Below like the male, but the white is pre¬ 
dominant. 
This species forms the first of the second division of 
the genus. In structure it is a typical Lycaenesthes, the geni¬ 
talia are allied to the lemnos group; but the pattern is 
quite diverse, and is so different and so homogeneous with 
others that follow that they form a well-marked sub¬ 
division so far as the pattern of the underside is concerned. 
There is, however, no structural point of separation. 
Hah . Sierra Leone ; Gaboon ; Old Calabar ; 
Cameroons. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genitalia. —Harpago roughly ovate, wdth a deep tooth about three- 
quarters along the low’er edge, two Avell-developed deep on its front 
extremity, and another on its upper edge near the tip. Cingula 
well developed but narrow’, with the lower extremity produced back¬ 
wards into a strong lobe. Tegumen excavated on the apex in front 
with the cheeks, having almost a straight front edge ; the falces being 
very strongly developed highly curved near the sockets, and with a 
strong hook at ’the tip; the furca expands widely from the base, 
suddenly contracts narrowly at a half, and bends backwards, the 
penis sheath is small comparatively, of moderate width for its basal 
half, gradually tapering to the apex, which is slightly bulbous, having 
a shortly excavated extremity. Both tegumen and harpagines are 
supplied with long, fine bristles. 
Lycaenesthes lachares. Hew. (Plates II, fig. 9 $; 
VIII, fig. 24.) 
L. lachares, Hew., HI. D. Lep., p., 225, PI. 91, IT. 33, 34 
(1878) ; ? id. Auriv., Eut. Tid., 1895, p. 216; id. Auriv., 
Ptliop. Aethiop., p. 350 (1898); L. liparis. Smith, Novit. 
