African species of the Lycacncsthcs group of Lycacnidae. 57 
. Both wings with large orange patches above. Primaries with 
broad borders to the costa and terinen, a very broad dark apex and 
narrow dark inner margin. Secondaries wdth costa very broadly 
dai’k, extending over the base to two-thirds of the cell; abdominal 
margin dark ; a dark defined subterminal line with dark spots at the 
angle; cell closed by a dark .spot. Underside greyish with the 
usual pattern, but little darker than the ground-colour. 
Hah. Gaboon; Congo; Beni; Mawambe (Upper 
Congo). 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genitalia.- —Harpago, rounded at first on its upper and lower edge, 
at a quarter from the front ajiex it suddenly rises into a bluntly 
shouldered extremity, the lower edge is equally suddenly produced 
outwards into a broad large horn which is strongly excavated on its 
front edge and is then developed into a .sharp tooth whence the 
fore edge which is strongly serrated rises erectly to the upper apex. 
Cingula moderately wide, expanding somewhat into the tegumen, 
w’hich is well excavated at its front dorsum with the cheeks nearly 
straight but gradually increasing to their lower extremity where 
they are broadest. Falces strong highly curved at a third from the 
sockets. Furca with longish arms inclined backwards. Penis sheath 
broadest beyond the middle, the apical third being broad and with 
a tapered extremity. Tegumen and harpagines with stiff fine hairs. 
Lycacncsthcs crythropoccilns, Holland. (Plate III, fig. 1.) 
L. crythropoecilus, Holl., Ent. News, p. 26 (1893); 
L. crythropoccila, Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., p. 352 (1898). 
^. Upperside almost exactly like L. leptines, Hew. ; the primarie.«, 
however, have a dark subterminal line in the brown area, and the 
secondaries have a fine preterminal line in addition to the sub¬ 
terminal one. Underside : both wings pure white, with the usual 
pattern, the distinguishing characters being in the primaries ; the 
postmedian line is confluent, slightly curved and not fractured until 
the lowest spot, which is shifted right in and surrounded with 
orange scales ; the postmedian stripe is followed by three finer dark 
lines. Secondaries with the postmedian stripe much disintegrated, 
the seventh and eighth angled spots shifted far in below the spot 
closing the cell and separated from it by some orange scaling. 
Hah. Ogowe River. 
Type in the Carnegie Museum. 
This species though near Icjdines, Hew., is evidently dis¬ 
tinct, and should he recognised at once by its distinctive 
underside. 
