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LYCAENESTHES. By Dr. C. Aurivillitts. 
apex and distal margin very broad blackish-brown, the marginal band at vein 6 almost reaches the apex of 
the cliscal cell, but posteriorly it gradually grows narrower and at the anal margin it is hardly more than 
2 mm broad; hindwing above with a dark brown marginal band of about 3 mm width, enclosing 7 (two 
in 1 c and one each in 2 to G) triangular, black marginal spots finely encircled with white; fringes brown. Both 
wings beneath with a light brownish marginal band proximally irregularly bordered, enclosing the discal 
spots or at least reaching them; the discal spots are situate nearer at the margin than usually, those of area 
1 b of the forewing and of the areas 1 b and 1 c of the hindwing, however, much farther towards the 
base than the others; discal spot 7 of hindwing small, black, punctiform; hindwing with a minute basal dot 
in 1 a and 7. Cameroon, near Bitje on the Ja-River. 
ch if hi da. L. chiritlda B.-Bak. (71 d). Both wings above dark violettish-blue with a very fine black marginal 
line, beneath grey with spots finely bordered with white, which are scarcely darker than the ground-colour; 
t-lie discal spots 2 to 6 of the forewing form a coherent, feebly bent band, discal spot 1 is placed more 
towards the base and entirely separated from the discal spot 2; hindwing with two rather indistinct basal spots, 
one in 1 a, one in 7, and two black marginal dots proximally bordered with reddish-yellow in 1 c and 2. 
Wings above brown with a broad white spot of the hindwing, beneath of a white ground-colour. Gaza- 
land in the forest of Chirinda; Cape Colony and Kilima-Ndjaro; East Sudan: Wan. -—• Tne $ is very much 
like that of definita (71 e) and only differs by the darker under surface. 
pauperula. L. pauperula Strand (72 a). Strand described this form as an aberration of ukerewensis which only 
differs from the typical form by the absence of the basal spot in the discal cell of the hindwing. Bethtjne- 
Baker considers pauperula to be a form very closely allied to chirinda , only deviating by a somewhat differently 
shaped discal band of the forewing. German East Africa on the shore of the Victoria-Nyanza. 
ligures. L. ligures Hew. (= emolus Mab.) (71 f). <$. Wings above as far as the fine dark marginal line dark 
violettish-blue; hindwing close in front of the margin with a black transverse streak or two dots in area 1 c 
and one dot in 2. Spots beneath not darker than the brown ground-colour, finely bordered with greyish- 
white; the discal spots 2 to 7 of the forewing form a coherent, slightly bent transverse band, the discal spot 
1 b, however, is situate so far towards the base that its distal border-line coincides with the proximal one of 
the discal spot 2. Hindwing beneath with three basal spots (in 1 a, 7 and the discal cell) which are neither 
punctiform nor darker than the ground, and with three black marginal spots scaled silvery blue and encircled 
by reddish-yellow in lb, 1 c and 2; the spot in 2 is larger than the others, the reddish-yellow bordering 
of which is continued like a streak to the end of vein 1 a. The $ is above light brown, at the margin of the 
hindwing with a broad whitish band enclosing two dark lines, and with black marginal spots in area 2 and 
at the anal angle; under surface white with the same markings as in the In the whole of West Africa 
amanica. from Sierra Leone to Angola and to the east as far as Nandi and the Kilima-Ndjaro. -— amanica Strand. Of 
this form which Strand at first regarded to be liodes, two specimens are before me from the Kilima-Ndjaro; 
the one entirely agrees with Strand’s description, and I therefore do not doubt that he has had such a specimen 
before him. The other is above somewhat different and forms a transition to the type. It therefore follows 
that amanica is a race of ligures. Beneath it entirely corresponds with ligures except the discal spot 1 b of 
the forewing being situate much nearer at the margin, and above it only differs by both wings showing 
a black marginal band; this marginal band is about 2 mm broad at the apex of the forewing, gradually tape- 
ring off towards the anal angle and forming at the apex of the hindwing a spot which covers the greatest 
liguroides. part of area 6, though it is very narrow there; German East x4frica: Amani and Kilima-Ndjaro. — liguroides; 
Strand (72 a) is unknown to me, but it is described, as follows: ,,Different from the typical form by its 
smaller size (expanse of wings 25, length of wings 14 mm); the discocellular spot of the forewing is not so far 
distant as its shorter diameter from the postmedian band, the said band is scarcely broken and generally 
scarcely noticeable behind the vein 2; the hindwing beneath shows a grey round spot in the basal area at the 
costal margin, which, however, is only recognizable by the light inclosure; the bands following then are 
much more prominent than in ligures, because their inclosure is lighter; antennal club below mostly light reddish. 
ukerewensis. Abyssinia, near Eli. — ukerewensis Strand I place here only temporarily. The $, according to Bethtjne-Baker, 
belongs to ligures, the however, he united with lemnos. Strand, however, states that this determination 
is quite incorrect . According to the description, the $ differs from that of ligures by the hindwing above showing 
albicans, a brown marginal band of 3 mm width. German East Africa. — albicans Griinb. deviates by the purely white 
ground-colouring beneath. Sesse Islands. 
afra. L, afra B.-Bak. (71 c). The only differs above from ligures by both wings above being broad black 
at the costal margin as far as the discal cell and at the distal margin; the under surface differs only by the 
basal spots of the hindwing being much smaller and rounded. ^ unknown. Cameroon and in the Congo 
District near Makala. 
alberta. L. alberta B.-Bak. (71 cl) is also very much like the two preceding species and only differs from afra 
by the darker brown under surface, the broader discal spots and the position of the discal spot 1 b of the fore¬ 
wing; the latter is situate more towards the margin, so that its distal light border-line touches the middle of 
the discal spot 2. $ unknown. Congo; Angola, Uganda, and on Lake Albert-Edward. 
