LYCAENE STILES. By Dr. C. Aukivillius. 
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for ascertaining the species, I am still convinced that it must be identical either with L. lachares or lysicles. 
This question can only be solved by examining the typical specimen in the Greifswald Museum. Bethtjxe- 
Baker wrongly translated the description of the and thereby made it unintelligible. 
L. melambrota Holl. (72 c) is a small species of which hitherto only one specimen ($ ?) is known. The melumbro- 
description says: upper surface blackish with a bluish reflection; hindwing with grey fringes; a narrow black 
marginal line is proximally bordered by a similarly fine white line and then a series of black-pupilled grey 
eye-spots. Under surface white decorated with light grey and black confused markings; at the margin on both 
wings a series of black-pupilled eye-spots with white rings or in the areas 2 and 3 of the hindwing with 
reddish-yellow wings; the eye-spots are in both wings proximally bordered by a dark brown line. French 
Congo: Ogowe. 
L. lysicles Hew. (71k). (J. Wings above blackish; forewing with a lustrous dark blue longitudinal lysicles. 
stripe in 1 a and 1 b; hindwing with a triangular blue spot at the posterior margin of the discal cell and at 
the base of the areas 2 and 3, with a broad blue submarginal band between the veins 2 and 4 and a fine 
blue or white marginal line from vein 1 b to vein 4. Under surface dark blackish-grey with similarly coloured 
or partly darker spots (the discal spots 1 b, l c, 4, 5 and 7, as well as the central spot and the basal spot 
of the hindwing are often almost black) and moderately broad border-lines; area 3 of the hindwing beneath 
without an eye-spot at the margin; the white discal and postdiscal lines of the forewing are almost quite 
straight. The $ is above uni-coloured dark brown with a fine white marginal line and bow and an indistinct 
submarginal line of the hindwing; under surface like in the <$, but with broader border-lines. Sierra Leone 
to Gaboon. 
L. fasciata Auriv. (= subnitens B.-Bcik.) (72c). A. Wings above blackish; forewing Avith a dark fasciata. 
violettish-blue reflection on the discal cell and a broad stripe of the posterior margin in 1 a and 1 b at least 
as far as the centre of vein 2; hindwing with a large, triangular, similarly coloured area covering the discal 
cell and the areas 1 c to 5 as far as about 2 mm from the margin, and with two such fine, indistinct lines 
at the margin. Under surface blackish-grey with normally developed separate border-lines and slightly darker 
spots; only in the discal cell the distal border-line of the basal spot is united with the proximal one of the 
central spot; the discal spots 2 to 5 on the forewing, and lb, 1 c, 2 to 5 and 7, as Avell as the central spot 
on the hindwing are more or less filled up with black; hindwing only AA'ith one complete eye-spot (in area 2), 
those in 1 b and 1 c being minute or absent and without the reddish-yellow border. In the $ the wings above 
are blackish-brown with a bent whitish submarginal line formed of spots or streaks, and the hindwing besides 
with the usual two light marginal lines. The under surface only differs from that of the A by the border¬ 
lines of the discal cells being separate or almost separate and by the white submarginal line of the hind¬ 
wing forming a spot in area 6. Expanse: 19 to 21 mm. Palpi beloAv in the $ almost smooth, in the $ with 
bristly scales. Sierra Leone to the Congo District. 
L. obscura Ham. Drc. (72 b). The A is very similar to that of fasciata (72 c) and apparently differs obscura. 
only by the darker, more monotonously blackish under surface and the finer border-lines of it; the AA'hite 
submarginal line of the hindwing in area 6 expanded into a spot. $ unknown. Cameroon near Bitje. 
L. staudingeri Sm. & Ky. (72 c). A- Wings above blackish-brown; forewing with a dark blue posterior- staudinger 
marginal stripe in the basal part of 1 a and 1 b; hindwing only with two fine light marginal lines. The under 
surface is blackish with fine, but in some places expanded or united border-lines; on both wings there is in the 
discal cell near its apex a AA’hite spot which has been formed in the usual way by the united border-lines; 
the white submarginal line, which is otherwise very fine or even interrupted, forms a white spot at the 
costal margin on both wings in the areas 6 and 7; eye-spots of the hindwing like in fasciata and lucretilis, 
that in area 2, however, proximally not bordered with red, only with a white bow. This species is evidently 
closely allied on the one hand with fasciata on the other with lucretilis, and it does not seem to me to be 
natural to separate it from them generically. In the only specimen lying before me (from Sierra Leone), 
moreover, vein 11 is distinctly fused with vein 12 for some distance! In the $ the wings above are brown 
with a whitish submarginal line of the forewing, the under surface being lighter. Sierra Leone to the Congo 
District. 
L. lucretilis Heiv. (72 c). In the B the wings above are black with numerous fine, bright blue transverse lucretilis. 
streaks and transverse lines corresponding to the border-lines of the under surface; by this marking the species 
differs at once from all the other hitherto known species. The under surface is almost black Aiith fine border¬ 
lines and it is quite similar to that of staudingeri ; the discal cells by the fusion of the border-lines with a 
white spot and the white submarginal line at the costal margin (particularly on the hindwing) expanded into 
a spot; the red border of the eye-spots on the hindwing is absent or only feebly developed in area 2. In the 
$ the wings above are smoky-black without blue lines, but with the spots showing through from beneath, and 
the blue submarginal line of both wings is replaced by a white one; under surface like in the $. — The 
larva lives hi depressions or hollows of the trunk of a plant which is not closely defined in the report, and is 
