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3. Pseudodipsas Cephenes. Plate LXXXIX. 2 figs. 3, 4. 



Upperside. Female. — Dark brown. Posterior wing with a submarginal series of five 

 black pyramidal spots, bordered with white. 



Underside white. Both wings with four or five spots before the middle ; both crossed 

 beyond the middle by a broad band : all slightly darker than the rest of the wing, and bordered 

 with brown. Anterior wing with two submarginal bands of lunular brown spots. Posterior 

 wing with a minute black spot near the base, and a submarginal series of pyramidal spots : 

 the anal angle and a spot near it, where the outer margin projects, black, crowned with 

 orange. 



Exp. I3- inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from India (Atkinson). 



Genus LYOENESTHES. 



Lyc^enesthes, Moore. 



1. Lycsenesthes Lycaenoides. Plate XCII. fig. 39. 



Dipsas Lycamoidos, Felder, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, maih.-nat. CI. xl. p. 454. 

 Pseudodipsas Lycaenoides, Felder, Eeise der Novara, Lep. ii. pi. 30. fig. 25, p. 258. 

 Lycamesthes Bengalensis, Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1SG5, pi. 41. fig. 9, p. 773. 



[I think it probable that this species is the true Polyommatus Emolus, described by Godart 

 as from Bengal in Enc. Meth. p. 656.— W. F. K.] 



2. Lycsenesthes Lycsenina. Plate XC. figs. 6, 9. 

 Lycasnesthes Lycasnina, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 18G8, p. 281. 



Upperside rufous-brown, tinted with blue near the base, darker near the outer margins. 

 Posterior wing with two or three black spots near the outer margin. 



Underside cinereous. Both wings with a spot at the end of the cell bordered with 

 white : both with a double series of lunular submarginal white spots. Anterior wing crossed 

 beyond the middle by a broken band bordered on both sides with white. Posterior wing 

 crossed with irregular spots bordered with white : three minute subbasal spots bordered 

 with white, one of them near the costal margin and one on the abdominal fold black, the 

 third in the cell pale brown : the black spot on the outer margin crowned with orange : two 

 minute spots at the anal angle, and the outer margin black. 



Exp. ^ inch. 



In the Collection of Dr. Staudingcr, from Ceylon. 



