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Show 1887.] WEST-AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 571 front and ending in two white spots ; the white spot of the male much enlarged and quadrate, and the submarginal and marginal markings are larger and buff-coloured instead of blue. 27. TELCHINIA SERENA. Papilio serena, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 461. n. 76 (1775). One male of this common species. 28. ABISARA TANTALUS. Sospita tantalus, Llewitson, Ex. Butt. ii. Sosp. pl. 1. fig. 1 (1861). 29. LYC^ENESTHES LARYDAS. Papilio largdas, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 282. H (1782). This and the other species of Lycanesthes in the collection were all represented by males only; females of this genus seem to be rare. 30. LYC-ENESTHES LIGURES. Lycanesthes ligures, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 349. 31. LYCANESTHES DOCILIS, sp. n. 3 • Above dark slaty blue, brownish towards the outer margins of the wings ; fringes grey-brown, with darker subbasal line and white tips; costal and abdominal borders of secondaries brown : body blackish : under surface dove-grey, with the markings indicated only by their white edges, very similar in their general arrangement to those of L. ligures, excepting that an additional irregular macular band runs from the costa across the middle of the discoidal cell in all the wings: the ocelli of the secondaries are also reduced to small distinct black spots, without any orange ins or metallic blue sealing; venter white. Expanse of wings 32 millim. One male only of this very distinct species was obtained. 32. AzANUS OCCIDENTALIS, Sp. n. 3 . Nearest to A. gamra, chiefly differing on the upper surface in the absence of the black anal spots of the secondaries; below, the primaries differ in the darker colouring of all the markings, in having a round white-bordered blackish spot in the cell and an oblique grey dash nearer to the base below the cell, the subapical oblique band more oblique, and the submarginal white line beyond it widened to a band; secondaries chalky white, all the markings sharply defined, but without white borders, the markings beyond and below the cell black and composed of distinct spots like the others ; anal ocelli small. Expanse of wings 26 millim. One male only. W e have it also from Sierra Leone, and in the Hewitson cabinet it stands as the A. moriqua of Wallengren, which is a totally distinct species, found commonly at Natal. A. gamra is the common species of Beirut. |
