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Mr. G. T. BGliune-Baker’s Revision of the 
Lycaenesthes ja, Druce. 
]\Ir. Druce is describing this species from the Ja River 
in the Cameroons; it is very near to L. erythropoecihis, 
Holland, but the underside is almost entirely bright 
orange, and the pattern also differs. 
Hah. Bitje; Ja River, Cameroons. 
Type in the Druce collection. 
Lycaenesthes niahala, sp. nov. (Plates II, fig. 16 ; IX, 
figs. 27-28.) 
^. Both wings blackish brown, with pale orange-yellow areas. 
Primaries with a large pale orange-yellow patch occupying nearly 
all the cell to the inner margin and nearly all the radial area, this 
area being defined outwardly in a bold curve; termen narrowly 
brown. Secondaries with the wing beyond the cell orange from 
vein 1 to 6 up to the termen. Underside: both wings dull grey, 
not pale, with more or less darker markings edged with creamy 
white. Primaries with a darkish long wedge-shaped sub-basal 
mark ; a large spot closing the cell; postmedian stripe with two 
small confluent pale spots on the costa followed by a pair of large 
dark spots projecting well outwards, third pair smaller shifted well 
inwards, seventh spot erect shifted right inwards; subterminal line 
somewhat scalloped increasing in width to the tornus, between this 
and the termen is a second narrower line. Secondaries with a basal 
band of nearly even width ; a spot closing the cell; a postmedian 
stripe of four pair of spots, the first pair on the costa with the upper 
spot large and dark, second pair shifted right out with the outer 
half of the spots dark, third pair smaller shifted well in, fourth pair 
angled sliifted far in, isolated; a row of subterminal lunular marks ; 
a black spot between veins 2 and 3, and a small double one at the 
angle each overlaid with bluish-metallic scales and edged with 
orange yellow. 
Expanse 32 mm. 
Hah. Beni and Makala; Congo Free State, 
January—April. 
Type in my collection. 
This species is near leptincs. Hew., but the yellow 
area is much larger and the underside different in many 
particulars. 
Genitalia. — Harpago broad with the lower edge nearly straight, 
the upper edge strongly curved and gradually rising to the upper 
