African species of the Lycaenesthes group of Lycaenidae. nl 
Lycaenesthes xanthopoccihis, Holland. 
L. xanthopoecilus, Holl., Ent. News, p. 27 (1893); L. 
xanthopoecila, Auriv., Khop. Aethiop., p. 352 (1898); 
L. lycotas, Smith, Novit. Zool., p. 356 (1898); id. id. 
Rhop. Exot., p. 137, PI. XXIX, ff. 1-3 ; id. Auriv., Rhop. 
Aethiop., p. 350 (1898); L. leuhokescha, Karsch, Ent. 
Nach., p. 295 (1895); id. Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., p. 352 
(1898). 
d. Both wings brown above. Primaries with a large orange- 
yellow nearly-round patch in the lower radial area. Secondaries 
with a row of blue spots in the ^Jostmedian area from vein 1 to 5, 
and a fine bluish subterminal line interrupted by the black spot 
between veins 1 and 2. Underside white with dark spots, no scat¬ 
tered markings in the median area of the primaries from the sub- 
basal wedge-shaped mark to the postmedian transverse stripe, 
except a single mark at the end of the cell and one below it, between 
veins 1 and 2 ; tranverse stripe confluent curved to vein 2, where it 
nearly touches the thickened end of the subterminal line, wdiich is 
broadish and evenly curved. Secondaries with a curved basal 
costal line, a broad sub-basal Imnd ; a largish indefinite spot closes 
the cell ; postmedian stripe broken into four pairs of spots, tlie costal 
upper spot being large and dark, the lower spot paler and smaller, 
third and fourth spots dark shifted right out, fifth and sixth small 
shifted right inwards, seventh and eighth angled, isolated and 
shifted far inwards ; subterminal line evenly curved, edging inter¬ 
nally the anal black-jjupilled yellow spots which have iridescent 
scales. 
9. Like the male above, except that the yellow spot in the 
primaries is paler, and the row' of blue spots in the secondaries is 
replaced by a band of yellow'. Underside like the male, but the 
markings reduced. 
Hab. Ogovve River ; Bopoto ; Mukenga ; Congo 
Free State. 
Type (a ^) in the Carnegie Museum. 
I am fortunate in having an excellent figure of Holland’s 
and also of Karsch’s species, together with the Tring type, 
and they all agree one with another; Karsch’s .species is 
smaller than the others, but that is all the difference. 
This species is very similar to the $ of lachares, especially 
to those that have much development of yellow on the 
upperside of the wings ; the underside, however, differs 
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