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LYCAENESTHES. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
musagetes. 
cmadema. 
ituria. 
rubricincta. 
voltae. 
1. The marginal dot in area 2 of the hindwing proximally bordered with hemochrome. 
L. smiihi. 
2. The marginal dot in area 2 of the hindwing proximally bordered with yellow or 
reddish-yellow. 
a. Basal dot in area 7 of the hindwing filled up with red. L. hike. 
b. Basal dot in area 7 of the hindwing filled up with black. L. liodes. 
L. nigropunctata. 
ff. The discal spot 7 of the hindwing is entirely like the basal spot of the same area rounded, 
punctiform and decidedly darker and more distinctly prominent than the other discal 
snots. 
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1. Both the basal dot and discal dot of area 7 of the hindwing filled up with red. 
L. lasti. 
2. Both dots of area 7 of the hindwing filled up with black. L. princeps. 
L. Uganda. 
§§. S- Forewing above at the apex and generally also at the costal and distal margins broad 
black. 
f. Hindwing above at the margin in area 2 with a black dot proximally bordered with 
orange or reddish. 
1. Discal spot in area 7 of the hindwing large and angular, not punctiform and not darker 
than the other discal spots. L. livida. 
2. Discal spot in area 7 of the hindwing, entirely like the basal spot of the same area, 
rounded, punctiform and decidedly darker and more distinctly prominent than the 
other discal spots. L. lunulata. 
L. sanguine a. 
tf. Hindwing above without any reddish-yellow or yellow spots at the margin. Discal spot 
7 of hindwing angular, not punctiform. L. levis. 
11. Forewing beneath at the base in area 1 b broadly filled up with black; the black colour almost reaches 
the middle of the discal cell. Frons white with tAvo black lines of bristles. Hindwing only with two hair-tufts 
(at the end of the veins 1 b and 2), beneath with 4 black, Avhite-ringed dots after each other in area 7. 
L. amarah. 
The $$ are not only above, but, strange to say, also beneath often very different from the (Jet In many cases 
they are not yet or insufficiently known and it is therefore not possible for me to give a review of them. As a rule, the 
o2 differ above by a grey or greyish-brown ground-colour without any blue or with a great reduction of the blue or violet 
colours. And moreover, both wings, or at least the forewings, are often above in the centre lighter whitish. The under 
surface is generally much lighter than in the <3, with smaller, more separate or partly absent spots. 
L. musagetes Roll. (72 a). Both wings above as far as the margin dark bluish-violet, without markings; 
fringes blackish, hair-tufts white. Wings beneath brown without basal spots; central spot and discal spots 
angular, bordered with white, not or slightly darker than the ground; hindwing with three black marginal 
dots proximally bordered with orange-red and decorated with some bluish scales, one each in 1 b, 1 c and 2; 
that in 2 much larger than the others. $ unknown to me. Sierra Leone to Angola and Uganda. 
L. anadema Ham. Druce (71 b) only deviates from musagetes by the discal spots of the areas 1 b 
and 7 of the hindwing filled up with red and the fringes above light brown with white tips. $ unknown. North 
West Rhodesia. 
L. ituria B.-Bak. (71 c) has a reddish-brown under surface and all or almost all the discal spots of 
the hindwing filled up with orange-red; it otherwise agrees with musagetes. $ unknown. In the interior of 
the Congo District near Beni, Makala and Mawambe. 
L. rubricincta Holl. (72 a) is described as a <§, but is probably a $. Wings above monotonously dark 
brown; hindwing between the proximal margin and vein 6 with a yellow, about 4 mm broad marginal band 
enclosing 6 small, black marginal dots and only separated from the fringes by a very fine dark line. Wings 
beneath brownish grey, at the base unmarked as far as the central spot; discal spots angular, scarcely darker 
than the ground-colour; marginal spots in 1 c and 2 proximally bordered with reddish-yellow. Ogowe River. 
L. voltae Em. Sharpe (71b). Sexes quite different. <$■ Forewing above blackish with a light violettish- 
blue anal-marginal spot covering the base of the areas 1 a to 2, extending little beyond the middle of the 
anal margin and being anteriorly rounded off; hindwing above entirely light violettish-blue with a narrow, black 
marginal band being at the apex expanded to about 2 mm. Wings beneath whitish-grey; central spot and 
discal spots bordered with dark, scarcely darker than the ground-colour; discal spots broad and angular; hind- 
wing only with a basal dot (in 7); at the margin with very small dots proximally not being bordered with 
yellow in lb, lc and 2. In the £ the Avings above are white; forewing at the costal margin (as far 
