Lycaenidse from Sierra Leone. 75 



central spots in each being confluent and very large, margin 

 spotted with a black lunular stripe ; the ground has a suffusion 

 of red beyond and below the cell ; all the red spots are very 

 bright, approaching vermilion. 



?. — Upperside. Both wings bright ochreous : fore wings 

 with costa broadly dark brown, very broadly dark brown 

 from the end of the cell and tapering down the posterior 

 margin to the anal angle; cell with three spots in it and 

 several below ; ground-colour suffused with brown below the 

 cell almost to the inner margin ; fringes brown, intersected 

 with white : hind wings with costa broadly brown, posterior 

 margin very broadly dark brown, increasing in width from 

 the apex to the inner margin, base suffused with brown ; 

 fringes intersected with white. Underside. Fore wings pale 

 orange, base suffused with blackish ; costa blackish, cell with 

 three spots, increasing in size, and one below the cell touching 

 the second and third cell-spots ; apex as in the male, but the 

 oblique orange spots are preceded by a very broad blackish 

 band : hind wings ochreous grey, with pattern as in the male, 

 only the red spots are replaced by orange ones. 



Exp. wings, £ 34, $ 30 mm. 



This species may prove to be a subspecies of P. variegata y 

 S. & K., but it is a beautiful and striking form. Besides the 

 types described above, I have one male with a small orano-e 

 patch on the upperside of the fore wing. Caught in February 

 and April. 



Pseuderesia fusca, sp. n. 



cT« — Upperside. Fore wings black, with white fringes 

 intersected with black : hind wings black, with an orange- 

 coloured costa increasing in width from the base to below the 

 apex on the outer margin ; fringes whitish, intersected finely 

 with black. Underside. Fore wings dark grey, with a small 

 black dash closing the cell and a small black spot at the origin 

 of vein 2 ; beyond the cell a curved transverse row of small 

 blackish spots, followed by a similar more obscure submarginal 

 row : hind wings ochreous brown, with a small dark spot near 

 the base below the costal vein, followed by three small oblique 

 dark spots — one below the costa, one closing the cell, and 

 one below the cell; beyond the cell is a transverse, fine, inter- 

 rupted, blackish macular stripe from the costa to the internal 

 vein, beyond which is the rather obscure posterior marginal 

 row of blackish dots ; margin finely dark. 



? . — Upperside. Both wings black : fore wings with a 

 broad orange-yellow patch a third from the base on the inner 

 margin to near the outer angle, extending obliquely across 



