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LYCAENESTHES. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
lucretia. visited by the ant Cremastogaster buchneri. Sierra Leone to Angola. — ab. lucretia Sm. db Ky. only differs 
by the eye-spots of the hindwing being proximally broadly bordered with red; the blue lines of the upper 
surface are also somewhat differently developed, the submarginal line of the forewing having disappeared 
posteriorly. Cameroon. 
lychnides. L. lychnides Hew. (72 c, d). B- Wings above blackish-brown; forewing not marked; hindwing with 
a fine white marginal line and a large eye-spot proximally bordered with reddish-yellow in area 2; under sur¬ 
face blackish-grey with rather thick, normally arranged border-lines; hindwing without an eye-spot in area 3. 
In the $ the wings above are dark brown with an oblong yellow spot in area 1 b of the forewing and like in 
the B with a large eye-spot in area 2 of the hindwing; the areas 3 to 5 of the hindwing with rather distinct 
black marginal spots; under surface like in the 8- Old Calabar. 
rufomargi- L. rufomarginata B.-Bak. (72 d). 8- Wings above blackish-brown; hindwing with yellow-bordered 
nata. eye-spots at the margin in the areas 1 b to 3. Wings beneath rather light grey with fine border-lines and light 
spots; only the discal spots 2 to 5 of the forewing and lb, 1 c, 4, 5 and 7 of the hindwing are filled up 
with blackish; the white submarginal line of the hindwing is very thick, the other border-lines fine and separate; 
hindwing beneath without an eye-spot in area 3. $ similar to the 8, but with a very indistinct yellowish-red 
spot in the ,,median area” of the forewing. Expanse: 29 to 31 mm. Congo District: Makala and on Lake 
Albert-Edward. 
lamprocles. L. lamprocles Hew. (72b). 8- Wings above uni-coloured blackish; the black spots beneath more or 
less diaphanous; hindwing with a fine white marginal line at least in 1 c and 2. Wings beneath by the ex¬ 
pansion and union of the border-lines white with very much reduced black or blackish-grey markings; the 
latter consist of the basal spots, on the forewing, a grey transverse streak of the ground-colour before the 
apex of the cell, the central spot, the large discal spot in 1 b, a transverse band between the veins 1 and 4, 
which is formed by the discal spot 2 and in 1 b and 3 by a streak of the ground-colour, a slanting trans¬ 
verse band formed by the discal spots 3 to 6 and 8, a slanting subapical band of the ground-colour in 5, 
6 and 8, and finally of the submarginal band and the marginal line, the latter growing very fine or dis¬ 
appearing altogether towards the posterior angle. On the hindwing the ground-colour appears as a black 
streak close at the base; then follow the narrow basal band between the proximal margin and vein 8, the 
central spot, the discal spots forming four entirely separated pairs (1 b -f- 1 c, 2 -)— c, 4 -f- 5, 6 —(— 7); the 
discal spot in 6, however, is very small and punctiform; between the discal spots there are sometimes also 
fine transverse streaks or transverse lines of the ground-colour; the two white marginal lines are completely 
united into a white marginal band, being only interrupted by the eye-spot in area 2, and proximally bordered 
by the coherent submarginal band. The $ is unknown to me. Cameroon. 
lyzanius. L. lyzanius Hew. (= regilla Holl. ; turbata 8m. & Ky.) (72 d, e). It is smaller than lamprocles, but 
only differs otherwise by the marks mentioned in the review of the species. The $ is above lighter, in the 
basal part of the areas 4 and 5 between the central spot and the discal spots almost white and also lighter 
whitish in the areas 2 and 3 outside of the discal spots, hindwing with two white lines at the margin; the 
under surface is almost white owing to the expansion of the border-lines and very similar to the under surface 
of lamprocles B • — The larva, according to Lamborns observations, is visited by the ant Pheidole rotundata. 
Sierra Leone to Angola. — Vein 8 of the forewing is usually present though very short; there is before me 
an entirely typical specimen from Cameroon, in which it is entirely absent. The species thus sometimes appears 
as Triclema, sometimes as Neurypexina. 
flavomacu- L. flavomaculata Sm. & Ky. (72 d). This species which, according to Bethune-Baker, is a genuine 
lata. Lycaenesthes and thus has a sparate vein 11 of the forewing, approximates L. lyzanius so much that I can 
only distinguish it by the small yellowish spots on the forewing above and by the two border-lines in the 
discal cell of the forewing being united into a wdiite spot; in the B of lyzanius these lines are broadly se¬ 
parated. Lamborx also bred this species (8 and $) from larvae that were visited by ants; but he does not 
describe the $ and does not say anything about the differences between this species and lyzanius. Nigeria 
to Angola. 
laddes. L. lacides Heiv. (72 d). Both wings above uni-coloured black, without markings; ground-colour of 
the under surface as well as the spots almost black; border-lines moderately thick, separate, and normally 
arranged; an eye-spot bordered with red in area 2 of the hindwing. Cameroon to Angola. 
i neons pi- L. inconspicua Ham. Drc. (72 e) only differs from lacides by the distal border-line of the basal spot 
cua ■ and the proximal one of the central spot being combined into a white spot in the discal cell, and by the 
white submarginal line of both wings being much thicker. Cameroon near Bitje. — Probably only an aber¬ 
ration of lacides. 
xanthopoc- L. xanthopoecila Holl. (= lycotas Sm., lukokescha Karsch) (72 e). 8 • Wings above black; forewing 
cila - with a rounded, orange-yellow discal spot covering the centre of area 1 b and the base of area 2; area 1 b 
between the base and this spot covered with reflecting blue scales; hindwing between the veins 1 b and 6 
with an anteriorly narrowed, violettish-blue postdiscal band which is more or less broad, and at the margin 
with a whitish, in the areas 2 and 3 reddish-yellow submarginal line being formed of bows and a fine white 
