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Mr. G. T. Bi^unc-Baker’s Revision of the 
angle, termen finely black, tlie least trace of a dusky subterniinal 
line, more defined at the a 2 )ex and the angle. Underside : both 
wings with all the dark markings broadly edged with deep cream 
colour. Primaries with a dark wedge-shaped basal j^atch, a largish 
dark spot closing the cell, with another below it below vein 2 ; post¬ 
median stripe with the first three scoots oblique, fourth and fifth 
shifted well inwards; snbterminal stripe broad. Secondaries with 
a broad unbroken basal band ; a large spot closing the cell; post¬ 
median stripe with the second and third sjiots shifted outwards, 
fourth, fifth and sixth shifted well inwards and vertical, seventh and 
eighth angled and shifted right inwards; subterminal line broad, 
strongly curved, black terminal spots between veins 2 and 3 and at 
the angle with metallic scales and margined with red. 
Ex^^anse 28 mm. 
Hah. Begoro ; Goi.d Coast (Dudgeon). 
Type in the National Collection. 
Lycaenesthes scintilkda, Holland. (Plates III, fig. 3: X, 
figs. 30-31.) 
L. scintillida, Holl., Psyche, p. 50 (1891); id. Ent. 
News, p. 26 (1893); id. Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot., 
p. 98, PI. XXII, ff. 3 and 4 (nee 5 and 6) (1893); id. Auriv., 
Rhop. Aethiop., p. 352 (1898). 
6 • Ujri^erside. Primaries brilliant lustrorrs coppery orange, base 
very restricted black, costa linear black, aj^ex broader black, termen 
very narrowly black. Secondaries as primaries, but costa base and 
abdominal fold broadly deep black, an isolated black terminal sjjot 
between veins 2 and 3. Underside darkish brownish grey with 
darker sj)ots with cream-coloured edges. The 2 )Ostmedian stripe is 
composed of three sections, the first to the fourth spot confluent 
gradually incre§sing in width and oblique, fifth and sixth erect 
shifted right in on to the inner edge of the fourth, the seventh large 
shifted right in on to the inner edge of the sixth. Subterminal line 
broadish almost broken at vein 4 and again at vein 2. Secondaries 
with the postmedian stripe composed of four pair of spots, all very 
dark except the fifth and sixth; the second pair is shifted well out¬ 
wards and is erect, the third pair right inwards and oblique, 
fourth pair deeifiy and acutely angled far in to below the spot 
closing the cell; the ground between the first and the third jiair 
which are below each other is deep cream. 
5 . Similar to the male, but with very broad borders to the costa 
and termen and a narrow dark inner-marginal border in the prim- 
