ii4 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



GENUS PITHECOPS. 



Pithecops, Horsfield, Cat Lepid. Mus. E. I. C. p 66 (1828); 

 Schatz & Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 272 (1892). 



The type of this genus, P. hylax (Fabricms), is a small Butter- 

 fly from Java, with moderately long, rounded wings, hardly ex- 

 pand' ng more than three-quarters of an inch. It is dark brown 

 above, and whitish below, with no basal or discoidal markings, 

 but with a large blackish spot just before the extremity of the 

 costa. There are some small sub-marginal black dashes, and 

 within them, on the hind-wings, is a yellowish line. The first 

 sub-costal nervule anastomoses with the costal nervure, which 

 distinguishes this genus from the very similar Neopithecops (the 

 types of which are found in Ceylon and Singapore), in which 

 the sub -costal and costal nervures are distinctly separated. 



GENUS LYCMINESTHES, 



Lyccznesthes, Moore, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 773; id. 

 Lepid. Ceylon, i. p. 87 (1881); Distant, Rhop. Malay, 

 p. 232 (1884) ; Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 

 343; Schatz & Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 274 (1892). 



The type of this genus is L. bengalensis, Moore, a Butterfly 

 which is common throughout India and the Indo-Malayan 

 region. It measures about an inch and a half across the 

 wings, which are dark purplish-blue above in the male, and 

 purplish-brown, with a bluish patch at the base, in the female ; 

 towards the anal angle is a small black spot. The under side 

 is pale greyish-brown, with irregular white lines partly enclosing 

 darker spaces, and a small orange spot with a black pupil 

 towards the anal angle of the hind-wings. 



A great number of East Indian and African Butterflies, 

 resembling small species of Thecla, Plebeius, &c., have been, 

 rightly or wrongly, referred to this genus. Most of them are 



