African species of the Lycaenesthes group of Lycieniclac. 77 
by a series of terminal black points gradually developing into spots 
towards the angle ; ternien finely black with grey fringes. Secondaries; 
both wings coffee brown with darker spots broadly edged with white. 
Primaries with the usual wedge-shaped sub-basal spot, the oblong 
spot closing the cell with a small costal one above it; the postmedian 
stripe irregular, the first four strongly oblique, of which the lower 
two are shifted well outwards but continuing the oblique position, 
fourth and fifth confluent, slightly oblique, shifted right in and 
touching the cell spot, seventh oblique shifted far in so that its 
outer margin is confluent with the inner margin of the sixth spot; 
subterminal line very fine in its upper radial area, increasing in 
width in the tornal area, broadly edged laterally with white ; a fine 
preterminal line. Secondaries with the sub-basal band broken up 
into three spots, the upper one ovate, the middle one reniform 
divided into two by a white line, the third and lowest one con¬ 
stricted ; cell closed by an oblique rectangular spot with a fine 
central line ; postmedian stripe with the first spot dark, second paler 
shifted outwards, third, fourth, and fifth confluent arched, shifted 
well out, the third and fourth being dark, the fiftli paler and smaller, 
sixth shifted inwards, seventh and eighth angled and shifted right 
in ; subterminal line obsolescent, a terminal series of obscure small 
dashes, the subterminal area being broadly whitish, a dark spot 
between veins 2 and 3 and a smaller one at the angle, well covered 
with bluish-metallic scales and broadly edged with bright orange. 
Ternien very finely dark. 
5 . Just like the male. 
Expanse 28 mm. 
Hah. Kamililo; Nandi, June; Sierra Leone. 
Type in my collection. 
Tlie type was taken in tlie Nandi country; but I have 
a female from Sierra Leone that exactly corresponds with 
this male, and as it suits no other species I conclude it 
must be this. 
Genitalia .—Hariiago broad, well hollowed, upper apex sharply 
triangular, lower apex produced into a longish blunt-edged point 
finely serrated, lower edge developing a longish fine tooth just 
beyond the middle. Cingula broadly produced backwards at its 
base, girdle longish, narrow, expanding slightly to the tegumen, 
which is narrow, very slightly hollowed, with rather wider cheeks. 
Falces long, narrow, well curved at a third from the sockets. Furca 
with long, narrow arms strongly curved backwards. Penis sheath 
a gradually tapering ellipse suddenly hollowed at a quarter from the 
