224 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



[15. Lycsenesthes Thyrsis, Kirby. Plate XCII. figs. <s 42, ? 43, 44. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing black, glossed with bright blue in and below the 

 cell, this colour extendiug along the inner margin nearly to the hinder angle. Posterior wing 

 of the same blue, with a black spot at the anterior angle, and the inner margin black : the 

 hind margin is also narrowly black : towards the base are a few long white hairs. 



Female uniform brown, with a white spot just within the extremity of the 

 cell of the anterior wing, and two white dashes below it ; but in one specimen these white 

 markings are scarcely perceptible. 



Underside in both sexes white, more or less clouded with light brown, especially 

 towards the margins of the anterior wing. Both wings with two short brown dashes at the 

 end of the cell, and beyond these an irregular and partly connected chain of oval brown 

 spots, partly filled with whitish. There is also a submarginal row of dark sagittate spots 

 (mostly obsolete in the male), followed by a festooned brown line, formed of connected 

 luuules. Towards the anal angle are one or two black spots, crowned with orange and 

 irrorated with silvery green. 



Exp. d 1 T V, ? 1A inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Gaboon and Fernando Po. 



The male is of a brighter blue than any other described species of Lyecenesthes ; but the 

 underside shows a close relationship to L. Moncus, though the markings are much less 

 distinct.— W. F. K.] 



16. Lycsenesthes Lysicles. Plate XCI. d figs. 15, 16. 

 Lycaenesthes Lysicles, Hewitson, Trans. Entom. Soc. 1874, p. 348. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Anterior wing tinted with lilac towards the inner 

 margin. Posterior wing with a band from the base to the middle, a spot beyond the middle, 

 and some submarginal luuular spots, all lilac-blue. 



Underside brown. Both wings crossed irregularly by several bands of pure white ; 

 both with a submarginal band, split into two, near the apex of the anterior wing. Posterior 

 wing with three marginal black spots, one bordered above with orange, and two at the anal 

 angle, all irrorated with silver. 



Exp. l^jj inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Old Calabar. 



17. Lycsenesthes Lychnides, Hewitson. Plate XCI. d fig. 32 ; XCII. $ fig. 38. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Posterior wing with a black marginal spot, crowned 

 with orange and bordered below with white. 



