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Show 1891.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 51 Genus LYC^NESTHES, Moore. 86. LYCENESTHES LARYDAS (Cram.). Papilio larydas, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. cclxxxii. fig. H (1782). Three examples taken at Christmas Pass. 87. LYCCENESTHES LIODES, Hewits. Lyccenesthes liodes, Hewits. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 349. One specimen from Christmas Pass, and another from the Mineni Valley. 88. LYCCENESTHES NEGLECTA, Trim. 3. Lyccenesthes nec/lecta, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 175; and (? ) 1893, p. 132, pi. viii. figs. 7, 8 ( 3 & 2)- The only specimen, a female, was captured iu the Mineni Valley, on the 7th March ; it agrees with the Natalian female figured by me in the paper cited above. 89. LYCCENESTHES LUNULATA, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 12, 3 .) Exp. al. 1 in. 2\ lin. 3 . Metallic violaceous, bordered with fuscous. Fore wing : apical border very broad, but costal border to beyond middle and hind-marginal border below 2nd median nervule narrow. Hind wing : costal border of moderate width and only a little broader apically; hind-marginal border linear below 2nd subcostal nervule, but closely preceded by a fuscous lunulate line, the line separating the two being whitish towards anal angle ; ordinary hind-marginal spot between 1st and 2nd median nervules small but black internally, bounded and half encircled by a broad and very conspicuous orange lunule. Cilia whitish-grey, in hind wing whiter towards anal angle and traversed by a dark line. UNDERSIDE.-Brownish-grey ; ordinary markings of the ground-colour but with exceedingly fine darker outlines, their white edgings on both sides slender sharply defined. Fore wing : discal series of incomplete touching annulets only slightly irregular, except that its lowest and largest marking is oblique and before the others. Hind wing: discal series of annulets rather strongly bisinuated, the costal annulet filled with black; two subbasal, small, round, black, white-ringed spots, one near costa and the other on inner margin; hind-marginal black spot and orange lunule as on upperside, except that the spot is marked externally with greenish-silvery; at anal angle a similar spot and lunule. This species belongs to the sylvanus group of Lyccenesthes, its underside agreeing more with those of that species and of L. liodes, while the upperside more resembles that of L. otacilia, Trim., but is of a much deeper and more glittering violaceous. It appears to stand very close to the otacilia of Hewitson (Illustr. Diurn. Lep. pi. 92.figs. 35-37), which, as I have pointed out in my S.-Afr. Butt. 4* |