African apecies of the Lycamcstlics group of Lycaenidac. G3 
vein 2 to 6. Termen with a whitish line interrupted at the veins. 
Underside ; both wings blackish brown with white patches and 
stripes. Primaries with a white basal dasli, a large white patcli in the 
centre, a broad subapical dash to about vein 5, two fine pretenuinal 
lines. Secondaries with a broad suboval white mark across the cell 
to the abdominal edge and a longer curv'ed broad dash just outside 
it, a trace of a black terminal spot between veins 2 and 3 edged 
with reddish with a trace of iridescent scales, a preterminal fine 
scalloped line. 
Hah. Yaunde ; Bitje, Cameroons. 
Type iu the Berlin Museum. 
The underside pattern of this species will at once 
separate it from its nearest ally, viz. L. juba, Fab. 
Lycacncstlics juba, Fabricius. (Plate X, fig. 32.) 
L. juba, Fab., Mant. Ins., p. 82 (1787); id. Auriv., Ent. 
Tid., 1895, p. 219; id. Rhop. Aethiop., p. 353 (1898). 
(J. U])perside’: both wings dark brown with large orange-red 
patches. Primaries with the orange patch occupying all the median 
and radial areas. Secondaries with the patch occupying irregularly 
the postmedian area. Underside dark brown with white patches 
and marks. Primaries with a broad basal dash along the U 2 )per 
margin of the cell, a very large irregular white patch in the radial 
area and along the fold nearly to the tornus, but being invaded on 
the fold by the highly-curved postmedian broad line which is con¬ 
fluent and nearly semicirculai'; a white curved subapical broad dash 
terminates at the point where the broad dark subterminal line 
touches the postmedian stripe. Secondaries with a large white patch 
in the median and radial areas terminated by the curved postmedian 
broadish stripe ; beyond this stripe is a broadish white one inter¬ 
rupted about veins 2 and 3 by the subterminal line, which is also 
broad. 
? • Upj)erside like the male, but paler with smaller spots. Under¬ 
side just like the male. 
Hah. Sierra Leone; Bonny; S. Nigeria. 
Genitalia .—Harpago broad somewhat saddle-shaped, but cut olf 
straight at the bottom edge, fore apex rising into a saddle peak 
rounded and slightly hollowed below on its front edge. Cingula 
strongly produced backwards at its base with the girdle or arms 
shortish. Tegumen well developed, deeply excavated at the front 
