446 LYCAENESTHES. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
A. Basal spots of forewing and their border-lines together form a distinct angle (rarely the spot in 1 b is 
absent). 
a. Wings above as far as the margin very dark bluish-violet. Under surface brownish-grey; the basal 
spots and the discal spots 4, 5 and 7 of the hindwing more or less filled up with black, distinctly 
darker than the ground-colour. 
*. Forewing beneath with a basal spot in area lb. L. larydas. 
**. Forewing beneath without a basal spot in area 1 b. L. abrupta. 
[J. Wings above rather light bluish violet. Beneath lighter grey; the spots not or scarcely darker than 
the ground. L. crawshayi. 
B. Basal spots of forewing situate right behind each other, so that their border-lines form straight lines. 
a. Basal spot in 1 b of forewing not broader than that in the cell; both therefore form an equally broad 
transverse band. Both wings above bluish-violet. L. parallela. 
p. Basal spot in area 1 b of forewing much broader than the basal spot in the cell, which is anteriorly 
pointed; both therefore form a large triangle with straight sides and straight or almost straight white 
border-lines. — Forewing generally only with 10 veins, vein 11 being for a short distance fused with 
vein 12. 
*. Fore wing above for the greatest part violettish-blue or at least with bluish-grey, small spots. 
Hindwing beneath with a jet-black, green-scaled marginal spot in area 3. Proximal border¬ 
line of the marginal spots complete. 
1. Both wings above almost as far as the margin of a bright violettish-blue reflection with a 
black costal margin; forewing also with a posteriorly tapering black marginal band. 
L. coerulea. 
2. Forewing above blackish with several, small, separate, greyish-blue spots; hindwing with 
two such■ transverse lines in the marginal part. L. lamias. 
**. Forewing above blackish without any blue, sometimes with a grey submarginal line or with 
a yellow discal spot. Hindwing beneath in area 3 only with a small marginal streak. The proximal 
border-line of the marginal spots is absent in 1 b and 2. 
§. Wings above blackish without light markings. L. hades. 
L. phoenicis. 
§§. Forewing above with a brownish-yellow discal spot. L. marshallt. 
L. rufojjlagata. 
§§§. Both wings above with a grey or whitish submarginal line. 
1. Wings beneath with a brown ground-colour. L. kamilila. 
2. Wings beneath with a grey ground-colour. L. nigeriae. 
II. The basal spots of the hindwing beneath are so completely united into a straight or almost straight, jet- 
black transverse line or band on both sides bordered by an almost straight white border-line, that the 
single spots are not to be noticed; this basal transverse band does not reach the costal margin, but it 
ends at vein 8. 
A. Forewing above more or less extensively blue or violet or decorated with such spots and lines. 
a. Hindwing beneath at the costal margin in area 8 between the proximal border-line of the basal band 
and the proximal border-line of the submarginal band white. Forewing above with a dark violettish- 
blue anal-marginal spot reaching at least vein 2. Hindwing beneath in area 3 without a marginal 
spot bordered with red and scaled metallic. 
*. Hindwing above in the centre with a large dark violet spot covering the areas 2 to 5 and only 
leaving free a marginal band of about 3 mm width. The distal border-line of the basal spot of 
the discal cell and the proximal border-line of the central spot at least in the forewing separated. 
The base of the areas 2 and 3 entirely or almost entirely filled up with white. The proximal 
border line of the submarginal band of the forewing at the costal margin not expanded like a 
spot. L. lachares. 
**. Hindwing above only with a dark blue submarginal stripe between the veins 2 and 5. 
L. versatilis. 
p. Hindwing beneath not white at the middle of the costal margin. The distal border-line of the basal 
spot and the proximal one of the central spot in both wings at least anteriorly united into a white 
spot or transverse streak. 
*. Wings above with a blue or violet area forming on the forewing an anal-marginal spot or anal- 
marginal stripe, whilst on the hindwing it covers a larger or smaller part of the base and of the 
centre. 
