African species of the Lycaencsthcs group> of Lyeacnidae. 81 
just beyond tlie postmedian. Underside blackish brown with the 
pattern common to this section marked out by white lines. Primaries 
with a white spot closing the cell, and below it two broad short white 
dashes in the fold. The white subterminal line is completely inter¬ 
cepted by the exceedingly oblique costal part of the postmedian 
stripe. Secondaries with a white spot in the cell near its end, and a 
smaller one at the apex. 
Hob. Sierra Leone; Gaboon; Ogowe Kiver; 
Chinchoso; Angola. 
Type in the British Museum. 
This is a very distinct species, both as to its upper- and 
undersides. It is the species for which Karsch created the 
genus. Smith and Kirby’s L. lucretia is really only 
recognisable by the absence of the red edging to the anal 
spots of the underside of the secondaries; this is a feature 
that is variable in Incretilis, being sometimes reduced to a 
very fine line. I have little doubt that it is Hewitson’s 
species; the iridescent anal spots, both in size and width 
of edging and also in the metallic-blue scales, are very 
variable and cannot safely be used in species making. 
Triclcma fasciatus, Auriv. (Plates III, figs. 15 16 $; 
XIII, fig. 45.) 
L. fasciatus^ AxinY., Ent. Tid., 1895, p. 218; L.fasciata 
id. Rhop. Aethiop., p. 350 (1898); id. id. Arkiv. Zook, ii, p. 16 
(1905); L. suhnitens, B.-B., Ann. Mag. N. H., 1903, p. 332. 
^. Both wings blackish above. Primaries with the fold deep 
lustrous violaceous blue to a quarter from the tornus, with discoidal 
area of the same colour. - Underside: primaries with the postmedian 
stripe twice strongly fractured, the four costal spots conliuent very 
oblique, each spot rather further out than its predecessor, the fifth 
and sixth spot confluent vertical shifted well in, seventh spot oblique 
shifted far in, white subterminal stripe unbroken. Secondaries with 
basal band of even width and unbroken ; postmedian stripe fractured 
three times, the second pair of spots shifted right out, third pair and 
fourth pair each well in from its predecessor, subterminal white line 
highly curved with a marked indentation oi;twards at about its 
middle. 
9. Both wings uniformly brown. Primaries with a postmedian 
spotted palish line. Secondaries with a pale postmedian and subter¬ 
minal line, somewhat interrupted at the veins. Underside as the 
male, but white lines broader. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1910.—PART I. (JUNE) G 
