1887.] WEST-AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 571 



front and ending in two white spots ; tlie white spot of the male is 

 much enlarged and quadrate, and the submarginal and marginal 

 markings are larger and buff-coloured instead of blue. 



27. TeLCHINIA SERENA. 



Papilio Serena, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 461. n. 76 (1775). 

 One male of this common species. 



28. Abisara tantalus. 



Sospita tantalus, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. ii. Sosp. pi. 1. fig. 1 

 (1861). 



29. LyCvEnesthes larydas. 



Papilio larydas, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 282. H (1782). 



This and the other species of Lyccenesthes in the collection were 

 all represented by males only ; females of this genus seem to be 

 rare. 



'60. LyC^NESTHES LIGtJRES. 



Lyccenesthes ligures, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 349. 



31. Lyc^nesthes docilis, sp. n. 



S . Above dark slaty blue, brownish towards the outer margins of 

 the wings ; fringes grey-brown, with darker subbasal line and white 

 tips ; costal and abdominal borders of secondaries brown : body 

 blackish : under surface dove-grey, with the markings indicated only 

 by their white edges, very similar in their general arrangement to those 

 of L. ligures, excepting that an additional irregular macular band 

 runs from the costa across the middle of the discoidal cell in all the 

 wings ; the oceUi of the secondaries are also reduced to small 

 distinct black spots, without any orange iris or metallic blue sealing; 

 venter white. Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



One male only of this very distinct species was obtained. 



32. Azanus occidentalis, sp. n. 



c? . Nearest to A. gamra, chiefly differing on the upper surface in 

 the absence of the black anal spots of the secondaries ; below, the 

 primaries differ in the darker colouring of all the markings, in having 

 a round white-bordered blackish spot in the cell and an oblique grey 

 dash nearer to the base below the cell, the subapical oblique band 

 more obHque, and the submarginal white line beyond it widened to a 

 band ; secondaries chalky white, all the markings sharply defined, 

 but without white borders, the markings beyond and below the cell 

 black and composed of distinct spots like the others ; anal ocelli 

 small. Expanse of wings 26 miUim. 



One male only. We have it also from Sierra Leone, and in the 

 Hewitson cabinet it stands as the A. moriqua of Wallengren, which 

 is a totally distinct species, found commonly at Natal. A. gamra is 

 the common species of Beirut. 



