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LYCAENESTHES. By Dr. C. AuRiviLLiTjs. 
not quite normally developed, but often somewhat irregular or interrupted in the areas 1 c to 3; the white 
submarginal line is in the typical form fine and separate. The $ is above blackish-brown without a violet re¬ 
flection with a grey brightening in the areas 1 b to 3 of the forewing and three whitish transverse lines in the 
marginal part of the hindwing, the two proximal ones of which are formed of bows; a jet-black marginal spot 
in area 2; the under surface is almost like in the but with thicker border-lines. Common and distributed 
kersteni. from Sierra Leone to Natal and Uganda. — kersteni Gerst. only differs by its lighter upper surface with more 
diaphanous spots from beneath and by its somewhat lighter under surface with thicker border-lines; the white 
submarginal line is often more or less united with the distal border-lines of the discal spots. In the ^ the 
brightening of the forewing above is whitish. It chiefly occurs in South and East Africa. 
abrupta. L. abrupta Gaede. Upper surface agreeing with that of larydas Cr. (71 h); on the forewing beneath 
in larydas the white marginal line of the first basal double spot is distally almost rectilinear, proximally be¬ 
ginning from the middle bent inwards; in abrwpta the proximal line terminates on the median vein, the distal 
line forming a small bow distally somewhat above the median vein and ending on this vein; the whole lower 
part of the basal spot is thus absent; the central spot between vein 1 and vein 2 is in larydas bordered 
with white like the others, in abrupta there is only a brown, pointed spot without a light marginal line; the 
marginal spot following then between vein 1 and vein 2 is in abrupta not bordered proximally, but only 
separated from the central spot by the light ground-colour; hindwing like in larydas. Expanse of wings: 25 mm.“ 
Described according to a single specimen. As the only difference between this form and larydas is the formation 
of the spots in area 1 b on the forewing beneath, we may suspect it to have been founded upon an abnormal 
specimen in which the development of the marking of this area has been impeded. Cameroon, in the Yaunde 
District. 
crmvshayi. L. crawshayi Btlr. (71 h) is easily recognizable by the quite different colour of the above; beneath 
it entirely agrees with larydas , but it shows smaller basal spots on the forewing, which, however, are situate 
in the type precisely like in larydas. The $ is dull grey, with bluish scales at the bases of both wings. Sierra 
parallela. Leone to Uganda. — ab. parallela ab. nov. agrees above with the type and only differs beneath by the marks 
stated in the review. As some specimens of the typical form approximate parallela, it is probably only a form 
of crawshayi. German East Africa. 
coerulect. L. coerulea Auriv. (71 i) $. Expanse of wings: 22 mm; palpi beneath with bristly scales; wings above 
rather light violettish-blue; forewing with a black costal margin and black marginal band tapering off towards 
the posterior angle; hindwing at the costal margin as far as the discal cell and vein 6 black, at the margin 
with a fine marginal line proximally bordered with white, and with black spots or streaks in 1 c to 5. Under 
surface dark brown with somewhat darker spots and fine white border-lines; the white discal line of the fore¬ 
wing at the veins 2 and 4 somewhat interrupted, the proximal border-lines of the discal spots 2 and 3 being 
situate somewhat more towards the base than the distal border-lines of the discal spot 1 b and of the central 
spot; basal spot 7 of the hindwing more or less angular, entirely separated from the semicircular basal spot 
of the discal cell; the proximal border-line of the discal spot 5 touches in front the centre of the discal spot 6, 
whereby the white postdiscal line is here entirely interrupted; a black, green-scaled marginal spot is also in 
area 3 and it is only bordered with reddish-yellow towards vein 3. In the two specimens lying before me the 
forewing only shows 10 veins and vein 11 is for a very short distance united with vein 12. The $ is unknown. 
Cameroon. 
lamias. L. lamias Hew. (71 i). The differs from all the other species by the marking above described in the 
review; the spots of the forewing often show an oblong dark pupil; of these spots there are on the forewing 4 
in area 1 b, 3 in 2, one each in 3 to 6, one on the terminal vein of the discal cell and a fine longitudinal 
streak in 1 a. Wings beneath dark grey with black or blackish spots and thick, partly united border-lines; 
forewing quite normally marked; hindwing with almost united basal spots, the basal spot in 1 a, however, 
separate and rounded off and that in 7 also somewhat rounded and more or less slanting; in the discal cell the 
distal border-line of the basal spot and the proximal one of the central spot are united into a white, quad¬ 
rangular spot; the white submarginal line is in 4 and 5 completely or almost completely united with the distal 
border-lines of the discal spots; the ground-colour appears as transverse streaks or transverse lines chiefly 
only in area 7 between the basal spot and the discal spot, in area 6 between the discal spot and the white sub- 
marginal line, in the areas 4 and 5 between the central spot and the discal spots and in the areas 1 b and 
1 c between the basal spots and the discal spots; at the margin there is a black, green-scaled spot in area 3 and 
dark marginal streaks between the white marginal lines in 4 to 6. In the $ the wings above are uni-coloured 
brown with two indistinct white lines or rows of bows before the margin of the hindwing and blackish marginal 
dots in 1 c to 3; the under surface like in the <$, but with broader border-lines, whereby the ground-colour is 
still more removed. Sierra Leone to the Ogowe River. 
The three following species are evidently very closely allied. I am unfortunately not able to ascertain the dif¬ 
ferences from the descriptions and figures by Bethcne-Baker, particularly because the descriptions do not agree with 
the figures. In the description, for instance, he says that the hindwing above shows a black marginal spot in area 2, which 
also agrees with my specimens, but in the figure the hindwing exhibits a fine, cohei’ent, black marginal line distally bor- 
