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beyond the middle by a band of spots and by two submarginal bands, all pale grey -brown. 

 Posterior wing with a black spot near the base and two black spots near the anal angle, 

 crowned with orange and irrorated with silver. 



Exp. 1 inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from the Gaboon (Rogers). 



[13. Lycsenesthes Monteironis, Kir by. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing lilac-blue, with rather broad brown margins. 

 Posterior wing blue, rayed with brown along the nervures, and the costal and inner margins 

 brown, the latter fringed with white hairs, with which the body also appears to have been 

 clothed. Hind margin brown, with an interrupted submarginal bluish white line, followed 

 by a series of four lunules of the same colour : between the last two stands a black spot 

 crowned with orange. The fringes are white and rather long, and are very conspicuous on 

 the outer portion of the inner margin of the anterior wing. 



Female brown, with a rather broad pale blue stripe above the inner margin 

 of the anterior wing, above which is a smaller one. Posterior wing brown, slightly bluish at 

 the base ; otherwise as in the male. 



Underside in both sexes pearly grey. Posterior wing with a round black spot sur- 

 rounded with white on the costal margin near the base, and another on the middle of the 

 abdominal fold. The markings are arranged as in Sickela, but are of a pale brown and 

 inconspicuous ; the central band is darker and more distinct on the costal and inner margins 

 of the posterior wing : a brown submarginal indented stripe is more conspicuous than the 

 other lines. Fringes white, preceded by a black line, within which, near the anal angle of 

 the posterior wing, stand two black spots, surrounded with orange and irrorated with silver. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Angola and Calabar. 



I have named this insect after a gentleman to whom Mr. Hewitson was indebted for 

 many fine additions to his Collection from Angola, Delagoa Bay, &c, and who died in Africa 

 early in 1877. I always respected Mr. Monteiro highly, though I never had the pleasure of 

 meeting him, and am glad to avail myself of the present opportunity of attaching his name 

 to an interesting African species. — W. F. K.] 



14. Lycsenestb.es Moncus. 



Papilio Moncus, Fabricius, Sjmc. Ins. ii. p. 113. 



Tmolus lioncus, Batler, Fabrician Cat. pi. 11. fig. 10, p. 113. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



