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Hewitson described his Lyccenesthes liodes from a specimen 

 in his collection obtained from the Gaboon by Rogers; this 

 specimen, excepting for the narrowness of the bands on the 

 tinder surface, corresponds pretty closely with a single male 

 in the Museum series from Zomba, but is certainly distinct 

 from the South-African species which usually represents it in 

 collections ; oddly enough, Prof. Aurivillius neither gives 

 Gaboon nor Nyasaland as localities of Hewitson's species, 

 but appears to believe it to be strictly confined to South Africa 

 and Madagascar. Three species occur in Nyasaland — L. liodes, 

 the South-African species, and an allied form with very elon- 

 gated secondaries (of which we only possess one imperfect 

 female). 



The ground-tint of brown in typical C. liodes is more 

 golden bronze than in the southern insect, the markings 

 below are browner ; in the primaries the belt across the disk is 

 broken up into three suhparallel and nearly equal divisions 

 which are placed angle to angle, whereas in the southern species 

 the two upper divisions are united into a continuous sub- 

 angulated band ; below the costal vein towards the base of 

 tlie secondaries is a well-defined black spot with white margin, 

 and in the Zomba male the first division of the discal band 

 is nearly black ; in the southern insect there are no black 

 costal spots. As a matter of fact the true L. liodes is quite 

 as close, if not closer, to typical L. adherhal {Hewitsoni, 

 Auriv.) from the West Coast than to the South-African insect. 

 My L. adherbal is the eastern representative of the species, 

 and will retain Trimen's name of L. lunulata. 



The L. liodes of Trimen and others thus requires a name, 

 and may be called L. definita from the very dark discocellular 

 and discal markings on the upper surface of the females ; we 

 have it from the Cape, Grahamstown, Estcourt, Karkloof, 

 Tugela, Nyasa, and Machakos. 



Somewhat allied to the latter, but perhaps quite as much 

 so to L. larydas, is a fifth species which 1 found mixed up 

 with L. liodes: — 



Lyccenesthes Crawshayi, sp. n. 



Above bronzy brown with a faint lilac gloss ; outer margin 

 narrowly rufous brown ; fringe pale brassy brown, the tails 

 and fringe on inner border of secondaries pure white ; on the 

 under surface the pattern agrees pretty closely with that of 

 L. larydas, but is altogether weaker, greyer, and without 

 black blotches ; the ocellated spots have a broader orange 

 zone, but are only sprinkled externally with green metallic 

 scales. The female is generally more ashy and less promi- 



