African species of the Lycaenesthes yronp of Lycaenidae. 65 
p. 51 (1891); L. regilla, Auriv., Khop. Aetbiop., p. 351 
(1898); L. turlahis, Smith and Kii'by, Rhop. Exot., p. 
105, PL XXIII, ff. 11, 12 (1893); L. turhata, Auriv., RIiop. 
Aetbiop., p. 851 (1898). 
^. Both wings brown with darker spots ; these spots are produced 
by the under.side pattern showing through, though in an intensified 
and more definite form. Primaries with the basal wedge, the spot at 
the end of the cell, and the postmedian stripe present ; the latter 
broken up into three ; a sliort costal oblique dash ; two spots .shifted 
well inwards, the lower one much the larger of the two, and a large 
spot in the fold again shifted well in, each of the three being practi¬ 
cally isolated. Secondaries with the spots less evident, one at tlie end 
of the cell; the postmedian stripe irregular, composed of three pairs of 
spots, the middle pair being shifted right outwards ; the seventh and 
eighth angled spots though very definite on the underside do not 
appear at all on the upperside. Undersurface very close to Lycae¬ 
nesthes flavomucxdai'as, S. & K., but with a dark line in tlie primaries 
between the wedge spot and that closing the cell, also the costal part 
of the postmedian stripe is much less oblique. 
Hal. Old Calabar ; Ogowe River ; Cameroons ; 
Gaboon ; Sierra Leone ; Bassa Province and Oruga 
(N. Nigeria); BiHE District (Angola). 
Type in tbe British Museum. 
It has been somewhat difficult to unravel this species. 
Fortunately, however, I possess N. turlatus, sent me by 
Staudinger before his death. Dr. Holland has been good 
enough to send me most beautiful and evidently most 
accurate coloured figures of his regillus made by his own 
hand, and a very careful comparison showed them both 
to be Hewitson’s species lyzanius. The question then, 
however, arose as to the relationship with L. flavomaculatus, 
S. & K., to which it is very closely allied superficially ; the 
underside pattern, however, shows definite differences as 
already mentioned, and added to these the neuration of the 
two species also differs, thus separating them generically. 
L. flavomaculatus is a true Lycaenesthes, whilst in lyzanius 
veins 11 and 12 anastomose. 
Neurypexina lamp'ocles, Hew. 
L. lamprocles, Hew., Ill. D. Lep., jx 225, PI. 91, f. 81 
(1878); id. Auriv., Rhop. Aethiop., p. 351 (1898). 
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