222 DIUENAL LEPLDOPTEEA. 



linear spots. Posterior wing crossed by some irregular linear white spots, a minute black 

 spot at the middle of the costal margin, and brown spots near the base, on the outer margin, 

 and at the anal angle. 



Exp. \^ inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



10. Lycaenesthes Sylvanus. Plate XCII. ? fig. 41. 



Papilio Sylvanus, Drury, Must. Exot. Entom. ii. pi. 3. figs. 2, 3. 



Polyommatus Larydas, var., Godart, Encycl. Meth. p. 619. 



Lycsena Emolus, Gerstaeclcer, Decken's Reisen, iii. pt. 2, p. 373, pi. 15. fig. 4. 



Female. — Dark brown, with the centre of both wings pale lilac-blue. Anterior wing 

 with a black spot at the end of the cell. Posterior wing marked near the middle by three 

 black spots : the outer half of the wing white, with the nervures and two submarginal bands 

 brown, the outer margin black, and the caudal spot black crowned with orange. On the 

 underside it is like the male, but much whiter. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



11. Lycaenesthes Larydas. Plate XCII. $ fig. 40. 



Papilio Larydas, Cramer, Pap. Ex. iii. pi. 282. fig. H (1782). 

 Polyommatus Larydas, Godart, Encycl. Meth. p. 619. 

 Hesperia Pericles, Fair. Ent. Syst. iii. p. 273 (1793). 



Lycsena Kersteni, Gerstaeclcer, Archiv f. Naturg. 1871, i. p. 359 ; Decken's Beisen, iii. pt. 2, pi. 15. 

 fig. 5, p. 373. 



Female. — Dark brown. Anterior wing with two pyramidal white spots near the anal 

 angle, and below two smaller white spots. Posterior wing crossed below the middle by a 

 band of white : a series of lnnular black spots on the outer margin, bordered above by white : 

 the outer margin black, bordered inwardly with white. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



12. Lycaenesthes Sichela. 



Lycoena Sichela, Wallengren, Lep. Bhop. Caffr. p. 37. 

 Lycaenesthes Liodes, Hewitson, Trans. Entom. Soc. 1874, p. 349. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark lilac-blue : the outer margins dark brown, narrow, the fringe 

 white. Posterior wing with two or three black spots near the anal angle, bordered below 

 with blue- white. 



Underside grey-white. Both wings with a spot at the end of the cell, both crossed 



