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LYCAENESTHES. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
tisamena. 
lasti. 
princeps. 
Uganda. 
livida. 
lunulata. 
sanguinea. 
levis. 
Discal spots beneath all angular and scarcely darker than the ground-colour; hindwing only with a basal dot 
(in 7) filled up with black; marginal dots above black, beneath proximally bordered with reddish-yellow. Rho¬ 
desia and Kigonsera in German East Africa. 
L. tisamena Holl. (71 h as ,,ticamenus“) is unknown to me, but according to Beth.-Baker’s figure 
it must be placed irear liodes. Beth.-Baker places the species to his genus Triclema. Holland describes the 
species as follows: wings above uni-coloured dark violet, beneath with a light reddish-grey ground-colour. 
Forewing beneath right behind the discal cell with a dark transverse band which is interrupted between the 
median veins and on both sides bordered (the figure shows that this ,,transverse band“ consists of the central 
spot at the cell-end and of the discal spot of area 1 b); then follows a broader and darker transverse band from 
the costal margin to vein 2 and finally a narrow, brown submarginal line; fringes dark brown. Hindwing beneath 
with two dark brown, almost black, somewhat triangular spots at the costal margin, one at the end of the discal 
cell (indistinct in the figure) and one near the middle of the proximal margin; these spots are in the marginal 
half accompanied by dark nebulous spots being towards the margin bordered with light; the submarginal line 
of the hindwing is continued on the hindwing and in the area 2 and at the anal angle expanded to red, black- 
pupilled spots; fringes litre on the forewing. Palpi and abdomen beneath white. Ogowe River. 
L. lasti 8 m. & Ky. (71 g). <$. Both wings above as far as the margin dark violettish-blue; hindwing 
at the costal margin as far as vein 7 blackish and with black marginal dots in 1 b and 2. Under surface light 
grey with distinct discal spots bordered with white, of which at least those in 1 b and 7 of the hindwing 
are filled up with red and that in 7 is rounded; hindwing with red, white-curled basal dots in 1 a and 7; mar¬ 
ginal spots of the hindwing in 1 b, 1 c and 2 proximally broadly bordered with reddish-yellow. The $ is 
above brown with a white area in the centre of the forewing and a similar antemarginal stripe of the hindwing. 
Gazaland, Rhodesia, German and British East Africa. 
L. princeps Btlr. (= neglecta Trim.) (71 h). <$. Wings above as far as the distal and costal margins 
light bluish violet with a distinct brownish or almost coppery lustre; an extremely fine dark marginal line; 
sometimes a black marginal dot in area 2 of the hindwing; under surface rather light grey with distinct, somewhat 
darker discal spots bordered with white, forming on the forewing four divisions (the spots in 1 b, 2 and 3, 
4 and 5, 6 and 8); discal spot 7 of the hindwing filled up with dark, more or less rounded off, rarely 
somewhat angular; a basal dot filled up with black in area 7 and sometimes also in 1 a. In the $ the wings 
above are brown, only at the base a little dusted with blue; forewing sometimes in lb, 2 and 3 indistinctly 
brighter and the hindwing at the margin more or less whitish; beneath entirely like in the $. Distributed 
from Sierra Leone to Natal and Abyssinia. -—- Uganda B.-Bak. differs by the wings above being greyish-violet 
with a fine black marginal band and a narrow black costal-marginal band of the forewing; beneath ashy grey, 
between the discal band and the submarginal line whitish. Uganda. 
L. livida Trim. (72 g) <$. Forewing above blackish-brown with a blue basal area covering at most 
the discal cell and the greatest part of the areas la, lb (and 2); a black transverse spot at the cell-end; 
hindwing above at least as far as the middle blue with a black transverse streak at the cell-end and in 
the marginal part more or less white with marginal spots proximally bordered with yellow in 1 b and 2. Under 
surface light grey with darker discal spots and a basal dot filled up with black in area 7. The $ is rather 
similar to the <$, though paler, the upper surface light blue. Cape Colony to Abyssinia. 
L. lunulata Trim. (= hewitsoni Auriv.; grosei Auriv.) (71 c as lithas upper surface, f, g, h). <$. Forewing 
above with a violettish blue reflection, at the costal margin as far as the discal cell and at the apex broadly 
blackish-brown and then with or without a dark marginal band; hindwing likewise violettish-blue, at the costal 
margin as far as vein 6 broadly black, at the distal margin narrowly black or only with a fine dark marginal 
line, in area 2 always with a black marginal spot proximally very broadly bordered with reddish-yellow; 
under surface grey with slightly darker spots bordered with white; the discal spots of the foreAving form three 
divisions (in 1 b, 2 and 3, 4 to 8); the discal spot in area 7 of the hindwing is rounded, jet-black, or more or 
less covered with lustrous red scales; hindwing with two black or red scaled basal spots, one in 1 a and one in 
7; marginal spots of the areas 1 b, 1 c and 2 proximally broadly bordered with reddish-yellow. In the $ 
the blue colour above is brighter and of a purer blue, but much less extensive, on the forewing it often only 
forms a stiipe in lb; beneath like in the A- A rather common species distributed from Sierra Leone to 
Angola, Mashonaland and Mombasa in British East Africa. 
L. sanguinea B.-Bak. (71 h) is very closely allied to lunulata and apparently differs only by the 
whitish ground-colour beneath. Angola and Rhodesia. 
L. levis Hew. (71 i) is a small, very distinct species which, to a certain extent, approximates the 
species of the following group. A- Forewing above black, in the discal cell and in the areas 1 a and 1 b 
almost as far as the margin of a bright violettish blue; hindwing in the discal cell and in the areas 1 c 
to 5 as far as the 2 mm broad marginal band likewise bright violettish-blue; thus at the costal margin as far 
as vein 6 black; marginal band with two very fine bluish lines enclosing the marginal spots which are not bor¬ 
dered with reddish-yellow; under surface dark grey with spots bordered with white; the discal spots scarcely 
