African species of the Lycacncsthcs group of Lycaeniclae. Gl 
aries. The secondaries with a broadish dark subterminal line, the 
dark brown extending to the termen along the veins. The under- 
side of both wings is just like that of the male but paler. 
Hah. Ogowe River ; Sierra Leone ; Gaboon ; 
Ruwenzori ; Beni ; Mawambe ; Congo Free State, 
February. 
Type in the Carnegie Museum. 
This species is easily recognised by its very brilliant 
colour above and by the entire w'ing being coppery red. 
The description of the female as also the figures of that 
se.x given by Smith and Kirby (Rhop. Exot., p. 98, PI. 
XXir, If. 5, 6) do not belong to tins species ; I have both 
sexes and they cannot be mistaken. The figures are, I 
have no doubt, the female of L. lychnaptes, Holl. 
Genitalia .—Harpago broad, nearly straight as to its lower edge, 
but rising up to a high ridge at its upper extremity, front edge highly 
serrated from apex forming a long, strong, straight 2 )oint at about a 
quarter from the lower extremity, immediately below which it is 
highly excavated and terminates in a heavy j)ointed shoulder. 
Cingula heavily developed at the base with the backward projection 
broad, the arms forming the girdle rather short, narrowish, expand¬ 
ing but little at the tegumen. Tegumen deeply excavated at the front 
apex, cheeks gradually taj^ering to a straight front edge and not 
large; the fakes large and strong, terminating in a heavy talon 
curved at right angles at about a quarter from their sockets. Furca 
with base small, the arms long, very narrow, receding well back¬ 
wards. Penis slightly hollowed for its hinder half, the fore half 
gradually reduced to the orifice, which suddenly expands slightly, 
terminating in a tapering trumjjet-sliaped tip. The cheeks of the 
tegumen are well furnished with strong hairs at their lower angle, 
the hairs on the harpagines being very few. 
Lycaenesthes pyroptera, Auriv. 
L. ygroptera, Auriv., Ent. Nachr., p. .382 (1895); id. id. 
Rbop. Aethiop., p. 352, PI. 6, f. 3 (1898). 
(?• Ujq^erside : both wings brilliant coi) 2 )ery orange. Primaries 
with a broad blackish ajiex and somewhat broadish termen. Second¬ 
aries with black base reduced to a minimum, the red extending even 
into the abdominal fold. Underside : both wings jjale tawny with 
whitish dividing lines. The characteristic feature of both wings is 
the 2 )ostmedian stripe, wdiich has a series of small oval black ^jupils 
