1891.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 51 



Genus LxCiEXESTHES, Moore. 



86. Lyc^nesthes larydas (Cram.). 



Papilio larydas, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. cclxxxii. fig. H (1782). 

 Three examples taken at Christmas Pass. 



87. Lycsixesthes liodes, Hewits. 



L}^acenesthes liodes, Hewits. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, 

 p. 349. 



One .specimen from Christmas Pass, and another from the 

 Mineni Valley. 



88. Ltc^n"esthes neglecta, Trim. 



d". Lycanesthes neglecta, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, 

 p. 175 ; and ( $ ) 1893, p. 132, pi. viii. figs. 7, 8 ( c? & ? ). 



The onlj^ specimen, a female, was captured in the Mineni 

 Valle}', on the 7th March ; it agrees \^'ith the Natalian female 

 figured by me in the paper cited above. 



89. Lyc^nesthes luxulata, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 12, c? .) 



Exp. al. 1 in. '2\ lin. 



S. Metallic violaceous, bordered ivith fuscous. Fore wing : apical 

 border very broad, but costal border to beyond middle and hind- 

 marginal border below 2nd median nervule narrow. Hind wing : 

 costal border of moderate width and only a little broader apically ; 

 hind-marginal border linear below 2nd subcostal nervule, but 

 closely preceded by a fuscous lunulate line, the line separating 

 the two being whitish towards anal angle ; ordinary hind-marginal 

 spot between 1st and 2nd median nervules small but black internally, 

 bounded and half encircled by a broad and very conspicuous 

 orange lunule. Cilia whitish-grey, in hind wing whiter towards 

 anal angle and traversed by a dark line. Ukdeeside. — Brownish- 

 grey ; ordinary markings of the ground-colour but with exceedingly 

 fine darher outlines, their tvJiite edgings on both sides slender but 

 sharply defined. Fore iving : discal series of incomplete touching 

 annulets only slightly irregular, except that its lowest and largest 

 marking is oblique and before the others. Ifind luing : discal 

 series of annulets rather strongly bisinuated, the costal annulet 

 filled "with black ; two subbasal, small, round, black, white-ringed 

 spots, one near costa and the other on inner margin ; hind- 

 marginal black spot and orange lunule as on upperside, except 

 that the spot is marked externally with greenish-silvery ; at anal 

 angle a similar spot and lunule. 



This species belongs to the sylvanus group of Li/ccenesthes, its 



underside agreeing more with those of that species and of L. liodes, 



while the upperside more resembles that of L. otacilia, Trim., but 



is of a much deeper and more glittei-ing violaceous. It appears to 



stand very close to the otacilia of Hewitson (lUustr. Diurn. Lep. 



pi. 92. figs. 35-37), which, as I have pointed out in my S.-Afr. Butt. 



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