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LYCAENESTHES. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
the small basal dots as well as the discal spots in 1 b and 7 of the hindwing is filled up with red. German East 
Africa near Amani. — Bethune-Baker declares this species to be identical with Icisti (71 g); but if the basal 
spot in the discal cell of the hindwing is at any rate reliable as a characteristic mark of the species, 
Strand is correct in separating rubrimaculata from lasti. 
hobleyi. L. hobleyi Neave (71 e). <$. Both wings above as far as the margin dark violettish-blue with a fine, 
black marginal line; hindwing with black dots or transverse streaks at the margin in 1 c and 2; wings beneath 
dark grey with distinct discal spots more or less filled up with red or bordered with red, and three red, distinctly 
prominent, white-encircled basal dots of the hindwing (in 1 a, 7 and the discal cell); marginal spots in 1 b and 
2 of the hindwing as usually proximally bordered with red; both wings with a reddish marginal line. In the 
$ the wings above are very broad black at the costal and distal margins; hindwing above in 2 with a marginal 
spot bordered with reddish-yellow; under surface lighter than in the British East Africa and Uganda. 
lemnos. L. lemnos Hew. (71 e, f). Wings above lustrous violettish-blue, with a fine dark marginal line, 
beneath greyish-brown with discal spots bordered with white, which are not or only slightly darker than the 
ground-colour; only the discal spot 7 of the hindwing is often filled up with dark; hindwing with three basal 
dots (in 1 a, 7 and the discal cell), all of them or at least the two anterior ones being filled up with red- 
brown, chestnut or dark brown; black, green-scaled marginal dots proximally bordered by reddish-yellow 
as usually in 1 c and 2. In the $ the blue colour of the forewing above only reaches to the apex of the discal 
cell and the centre of area 2; hindwing as far as the middle light blue, then very extensively white with 
a black sub marginal line and black marginal spots of which that in 2 is proximally bordered with orange; under 
surface much lighter than in the <$, but with the same markings. Natal to British East Africa and Uganda. — 
loa. ■—■ loa Strand seems to me to be a form of lemnos at most, evidently being somewhat variable. Strand writes 
about loa which he at first described as lemnos'. ,,The original description of lemnos at first sight differs by the 
two anterior subbasal spots of the hindwing being light red, whereas in my specimens the anterior spot is 
entirely or at least for the greatest part black, the other being more or less reddish or brownish; besides 
the hindwing beneath at the margin only exhibits one black spot proximally encircled by red, whereas my 
form exhibits besides one or two such spots in the anal angle.“ In addition to this we remark that the basal 
dots of the hindwing in Hewitson’s figure are undoubtedly too glaringly coloured (in the text Hewitson calls 
them only ,,rufous“) and that the black marginal dots at the anal angle are variable in many species of Lycae- 
nesthes (Hewitson says in the text, that there is a yellow bordering, which is absent in the figure). I should 
therefore regard loa as the form of lemnos, in which only one of the basal dots of the hindwing is reddish 
or brown. German East Africa. 
indefinita. L. indefinita B.-Bak. (71 e) only differs in the <$ from the species mentioned last by the marks stated 
in the review, and cannot always be sharply distinguished from lemnos. The $, according to Bethune-Baker, 
has the wings above brown; forewing behind the cell and vein 3 light blue; hindwing with the radial part as 
far as the margin light bluish with a distinctly prominent black submarginal band and a black spot proximally 
bordered with dark yellow in area 2, both wings beneath white, but with the same markings as in the q. 
The figure does not exactly agree with this description, the hindwing above being broadly whitish in the mar¬ 
ginal part without any yellow bordering of the marginal spot in area 2, but with distinct black discal dots in 
2 to 5; on the under surface the basal dots in 1 a and in the cell are absent. Strand regards the £ 
bigamica. to be another species and denominates it bigamica. British East Africa; Uganda; Ruwenzori. 
sylvanus. L. sylvanus Dr. (74 f). This long-known species being widely distributed in West Africa is recognizable 
by the three basal dots of the hindwing being filled up with black and by the discal spots beneath being distally 
more or less filled up with tan or dark brown. The discal spots 2 to 6 of the forewing form a coherent, almost 
straight transverse band; the spot in 1 b, however, is situate so much farther towards the base, that it 
does not touch the spot in 2 or only with its anterior angle. In the $ both wings above are dark blackish-grey; 
the forewing sometimes lighter in the centre, the hindwing between the veins 1 b and 5 or 6 with a fine white 
submarginal line and in 2 with a black marginal spot proximally bordered with yellowish; under surface of 
a pure white, so that the white border-lines of the spots disappear altogether; the basal dot in the cell is very 
small or absent, and of the discal spots usually only the dark (black) filling remains. Sierra Leone to 
Angola. — Larva green and visited by ants. 
millari. L. millari Trim. (71 f). <J. Forewing above blackish-grey, the discal cell and the basal part of the 
areas 1 a and 1 b dusted light blue; hindwing above still lighter blue with a black costal-marginal band reaching 
the cell and vein 6, and a marginal band about 1% mm broad enclosing the usual white submarginal line and 
the black marginal spots; the marginal spot in 2 not bordered with yellow; both wings with a black transverse 
streak at the end of the discal cell. The under surface light grey with distinct discal spots situate in 2 and 3 
near the cell. Hindwing with three dark basal dots (in 1 a, 7 and the discal cell) and the usual marginal spots 
proximally bordered with yellow in lb, 1 c and 2. 9 unknown. Natal. 
