IALMENUS. 53 



broken into spots on the posterior wing : the second at the end of the cell short : the third 

 widely apart where the wings meet : the outer margin also rufous. Posterior wing with the 

 two black spots near the anal angle bordered with orange above, with blue below. 



Female like the male, except that it is of a pale dull cerulean blue, with the 

 apex and margins broader and rufous-brown. 



Exp. 6 l^j, S 14 inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from the Zambesi. 



The underside of the example of this species which I have from the Zambesi is darker than 

 usual and of a rufous grey. 



15. Hypolycsena Freja. 



Hesperia Freja, Fabriciiis, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 263. 

 Myrina Freja, Wcstwood in Gen. Diwrn. Lep. p. 476. 



I have never seen this species, and place it here in ignorance as to its true position. 



Genus IALMENUS. 



Ialmenus, Hiibner, Doubleday. 



Ialmenus has no very characteristic traits to give it distinction as a genus. It will 

 take in Chrysomallus and two other species for which it would be difficult to find a 

 position so good. The eyes are smooth. The palpi are long (unusually long), in some 

 of the males. In most of the species the second joint is smooth, or nearly so, but in 

 I. Inous and I. Myrsilus it is clothed with hair. The antennae have the joints 

 short and very numerous. There are three branches from the subcostal nervure, and 

 in the males of Chrysomallus and Ictinus a fourth branch. 



1. Ialmenus Evagoras. 



Papilio Evagoras, Donovan, Ins. of N. Holland, pi. 30. f. 1. 



Myrina Evagoras, Godart, Enc. Meth. p. 593. 



Ialmenus Evagoras, Hiibner, Zutrage, f. 175, 176. 



Thecla Evagoras, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, p. 74. Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 487. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Australia. 



