80 
IVlr. G. T. rtW lUiie-Baker’s Herismi of the 
shifted right out, and the seventh and eighth angled spots being 
shifted right below the sj)ot closing the cell and touching it; the 
dark subterininal stripe edged with white is broadish and distinct; 
the anal spots of the secondaries are present as usual. 
9- Entirely pale brown above in both wings. Underside like the 
male, but with broader wliite lines. 
Jlal). Sierra Leone; Nigeria; Cameroons; Gaboon. 
Type in the British Museum. 
This species, a common one in Sierra Leone, can 
easily be recognised by the pale whitish-blue marks of the 
upperside ; they are, liow^ever, somewhat fugitive, the super¬ 
posed scales being very easily rubbed off; they leave, 
however, behind a slight trace of their former presence. 
Genitdlia . — Harpago deeply split from the fore edge, the lower 
part forming e.xteriorly an angled sharp-pointed curved knife with 
a minutely-serrated edge, the upper extremity being somewhat 
hammer-headed. Cingula well developed with the base produced 
backwards and the arms fairly wide. Tegumen narrowish with 
wider cheeks. Falces short, curved at their middle. Eurca with 
narrow waved arms inclined backwards. Penis sheath very broad at 
the base, gradually tapering to a trumpet-shaped orifice. Tegumen 
and harpagines fairly supplied with hairs. 
Tridema lucretilis, Hew. 
Lycacnesthes lucretilis, Hew., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., IST-f 
p.349; id. Bl. D. Lep., p. 228, PI. 91, fif. 29, SO (1878) ; 
id. Dewitz., N. Acta. Acad. N. Cur., p. 180, PL 26, f. 4 
(1879); id. S. & K., Rhop. Exot., p. 103, PI. XXIII, ff. 5, 6 
(1893) ; id. Auriv., Pdiop. Aethiop., p. 351 (1898); id. id. 
Arkiv. Zook, ii, p. 16 (1905); Lycaenesthes lucretia. S. & K., 
Rhop. Exot., p. Ill, PI. XXIV, ff. 7, 8 (1894); il Auriv., 
Rhop. Aethiop., p. 351 (1898); Tridema lucretilis, Karsch, 
B. E. Z., p. 214 (1893); id. Reuter, Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn., p. 
182 (1896). 
8 • Upperside : both wings black with bright blue marks. 
Primaries with a brilliant fine blue figure 8 in the median area, two 
fine blue lines more or less parallel beyond it from vein 1 to 5 or 
6, a subterminal fine double blue line. Secondaries with a fine blue 
circle in the cell, which is clo.^ed by a parallel double blue short line ; 
postmedian stripe marked out by a double line of broken fine blue 
short dashes ; termen very finely blue preceded by a similar line 
