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Mr. G. T. 1 *4^une-Baker’s Bcvision of the 
Zool., V, p. 357 (1898); id. Aiiriv., Rhop. Aetliiop., p. 350 
(1898); L. indclier, Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot., ]>. 105, 
PI. 53, ff. 9, 10 (1893); id. Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., 
p. 350 (1898); L. liparis, G.-Smith, Rhop. Exot., p. 138, 
PI. XXIX, ff. 4, 5 (1901). 
Both wings above a delicate sub-histrous violet colour with 
broad brown margins ; the primaries with a largish subdued ochreous 
patch about the end of the cell. Underside very similar to lysides, 
Hew. ; the postmedian stripe of the primaries being moderately 
confluent with spots three and four shifted outwards on their outer 
margin. 
9. Both wings dark brown. Primaries with an ochreous yellow 
.spot in the angle of vein 2 and extending well beyond. Secondaries 
with a yellow dash in the lower radial area just over the yellow line 
bordering the anal sjjots. Underside: both wings white with the 
pattern of the male carried out, but in a somewhat vestigial manner. 
o . Var. obsolescens, var. nov. (Plate II, fig. 8.) 
Similar to the type form, but entii-ely without the ochreous patch 
in the primaries. 
Smith and Kirby were the first to describe the ^ of this 
species under the name oipuhher (/. c.), and I have, there¬ 
fore, taken that as the type form. The unicolorous violet 
form flies with the type species, and I have no doubt it is 
only a variety of it. 
Hewitson described it in the first instance from a 9- I 
have a good series of both sexes from several parts of West 
Africa, and have no doubt whatever that Smith and Kirby’s 
species is the ^ of lacliares, Hew. I have, through the 
kindness of the Tring Museum, also had the type of liparis, 
S. & K., and it in all respects agrees with this species. It is 
widely distributed in West Africa, but I can find no record 
from other localities. 
Hal. SiEREA Leone ; Old Calabar ; Ashanti ; Benin ; 
Warri; N. Nigeria; Gaboon. 
Type 9 in the British Museum. 
Genitalia. — Harpago rouglily oblong willi the front upper apex 
raised into a blunt cone, front edge straight, serrated, ending in a 
sharp tooth, excavated shortly below in a curve, then receding in a 
straightish shoulder to the lower edge, which is slightly hollowed at 
this point. Cingula well developed with narrow sides, the lower 
basal extremity produced backwards into a long, curved, blunt pro¬ 
cess, the sides expand rapidly at about halfwaj" into the tegumen, 
