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Genus Lyc.exesthes, Moore. 



86. Lyclenesthes larydas (Cram.). 



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

 Three examples taken at Christmas Pass. 



87. Lycenesthes modes, Hewits. 



Lycamesthes Ixodes, Hewits. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, 

 p. 349. 



One specimen from Christmas Pass, and another from the 

 JMineni Valley. 



88. Lycenesthes neglecta, Trim. 



$ . Li/ccenesthes neglecta, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, 

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



The only specimen, a female, was captured in the Mineni 

 Valley, on the 7th March ; it agrees with the Natalian female 

 figured by me in the paper cited above. 



89. Lycexesthes ltjnulata, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 12, J .) 



Exp. al. 1 in. 2\ lin. 



S . Metallic violaceous, bordered with 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 2ndmedian 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. Underside. — Brownish- 

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

 fine darker outlines, their white edgings on both sides slender but 

 sharply defined. Fore wing : discal series of incomplete touching 

 annulets only slightly irregular, except that its lowest and largest 

 marking is oblique and before the others. Hind iving : 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 Lyccenesthes, 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 glittering violaceous. It appears to 

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

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



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