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LYCAENESTHES. By Dr. C. Attrivillius. 
leptala. 
baJceri. 
scintillula. 
aurea. 
zenkeri. 
juba 
p ythagoras. 
fine dark marginal line and a small black submarginal dot in area 2; the areas 1 a and 1 b are blackish. On 
the under surface nearly all the spots as well as the ground-colour are yellowish with broad white border-lines; 
black or blackish are only on the forewing the basal spot in 1 b and the discal spots of the areas 1 b, 2 (3), 
4, 5 (and 6), and on the hindwing the basal transverse band, the discal spots 1 c, 2, 4, 5 and 7 and the 
marginal spots in 1 c and 2. This small, slender species is known from Cameroon and the district of the 
Congo River. 
L. leptala Courv. seems above to be quite the same as pyroptera, but beneath it differs by the dark 
colour of all the spots. Courvoisier only compares it with leptines and makala from which it is very differ¬ 
ent, and describes it as follows: ,,Contours of the wings exactly as in leptines and malcala ; also the colouring 
above like in those two orange with a slight lustre; but it deviates by decidedly black and much narrower 
margins of the wings, beginning 1 mm broad at the costa of the forewing, continuing finer along the costa, 
expanding to 2 mm at the apex and tapering off again towards the posterior angle; on the hindwing the 
costa and proximal margin is about 1 mm broad bordered with black, the rest of the wing only linearly 
margined with black; in the anal angle and in the cell CU (area 2) of the hindwing one small black marginal 
dot each. —- Under surface: ground-colour light orange; the marking is difficult to describe, extraordinarily 
similar to that in the two above-mentioned species, but the black pair of dots as well as the white trans¬ 
verse lines are more prominent; in the anal angle and in the cell CU (area 2) between the origins of the two 
distal small tails one bright metallic scaled, black spot each, edged with reddish.“ ,,German West Africa“, 
(Cameroon ?). 
L. bakeri Ham. Drc. (72 g). Of this beautiful species only one $ is known, and its affinity is therefore 
uncertain. ,,Allied with L. malcala B.-Bak.: upper surface bright orange; forewing with a broader dark brown 
costal margin and distal margin; a brown transverse streak at the cell-end is united with the costal margin. 
The under surface with brown spots and white bands almost like in makala, but they are less numerous; 
the whole discal area of the forewing and the distal half of the hindwing with a bright orange ground-colour; 
four black marginal spots in the anal region are strewn with blue scales; thorax and abdomen above brown, 
beneath light-coloured; legs black and white; palpi white with a black apex and black hair.“ Belgian Congo: 
Kassai River. 
L. scintillula Holl. (72 g). Wings above lustrous orange-red with dark transverse bands showing through 
from beneath, at the base very broadly darkened; costal margin of the forewing at the base as far as the 
cell black, distally rapidly tapering off and behind the cell-apex very narrow, then again expanded at the apex 
where it is sometimes almost 2 mm broad; marginal band much narrower almost equally broad; hindwing 
at the costal margin as far as vein 6 and at the proximal margin in 1 a and 1 b broad black, at the margin 
only with a fine black marginal line and with black spots in the areas 1 c to 5; these spots are united with 
the marginal line, the spot in area 2 is large and quadrangular, and that in 1 c consists of two spots, the 
proximal spot being triangular and the distal spot transverse, the spots in 1 c and 2 are separated from the 
black marginal line by a fine withish line. The ground-colour beneath is more or less yellowish with thick 
whitish border-lines and for the greatest part with blackish markings. The $ differs from the $ by a broad 
black costal margin and distal margin and by the narrow black posterior margin of the forewing above; 
hindwing above with a broader black marginal line which is interrupted at the veins by the reddish-yellow 
colour. Sierra Leone to Congo. 
L. aurea B.-Bak. (72 h) is unknown to me, but as the figure shows it approximates L. scintillula very 
much, and is said chiefly to differ by a more golden yellow ground-colour above and a more yellowish under 
surface. $ unknown. Gold Coast. 
L. zenkeri Karsch (72 h) by the marking beneath completely differs from all the preceding species. 
Wings above black; the forewing with a large orange spot of the posterior margin reaching to vein 5 or 6 and 
also covering a part of the cell-apex; hindwing with a yellow median area (in 1 c to 5) and indistinct black 
marginal spots. The under-surface has already been described in the review of the species. Cameroon to Congo. 
L. juba F. (72 h) is above similar to zenkeri , but it has larger orange areas on both wings and red- 
curled marginal spots on the hindwing above. The under surface is also very similar to that of L. zenkeri, 
but it deviates by the discal band of the hindwing uniting with the submarginal band in area 2. Sierra 
Leone to Nigeria. 
L. pythagoras F. is only known by the quite insufficient description of Fabricius and the probably 
not life-like figure in Donovans ,,Insects of India“ (t. 39, fig. 3). The upper surface and under surface of 
the forewing can quite easily be identified as L. juba ; the under surface of the hindwing, however, is so different 
that it is impossible to identify it with that of juba. Donovan who has probably seen both forms, combines, 
however, in the text juba and pythagoras as the same species. 
Owing to the present difficult conditions the figures of the species of this genus have only been indifferently 
turned out and they must always be compared with the description. 
