228 DIURNAL LEPLDOPTERA. 



26. Lycaenesthes Lucretilis. Plate XCI. figs. 29, 30. 



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



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Both wings irrorated with blue-white in the form 

 of very indistinct spots and bands. 



Underside dark brown. Both wings with several spots and bands of white, and two 

 submarginal bands of linear spots of the same colour. Anterior wing crossed before and 

 beyond the middle by distinct bands of white, the outer band (which is submarginal) broken 

 below the apex. Posterior wing with a distinct white spot before the middle : the lobe and 

 a large spot near it black, irrorated with silver. 



Exp. ±1 inch. 



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



27. Lycasnesthes Otacilia. Plate XCII. figs. 35, 36, 37. 

 Lycaena Otacilia, Trimen, Trans. Entom. Soc. 1868, p. 90. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



28. Lycaenesthes Amarah. 



Polyommatus Amarah, Guerin, Lef. Yoy. Abyss, iv. pi. 11. figs. 5, 6. 

 Lycaena Amarah, Trimen, Rhoj). Afr. Austr. ii. p. 235. 



[29. Lycaenesthes Princeps. 



Lycaenesthes Princeps, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xviii. p. 484 (1876). 

 Abyssinia. 

 This species appears to be distinct from any of the preceding. — W. F. K.] 



