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Novembrr-December 18p.I
PSYCHE.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW WEST AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE. BY W. J. HOLLAND, PITTSBURG, PA.
The insects described in the following
pages were all taken upon the upper
waters of the River Ogove in the French
Territory of Gaboon. They were col-
lected by my friend, Rev. A. C. Good,
during his stay there, which terminated
in the spring of the yeat 1889. It is my intention as soon as possible to publish figures of all of these species.
EULIPHYRA, gen. nov.
Antennae short: palpi minute, com-
pressed ; body robust ; anterior wings sub- triangular, with the costa strongly arched, the apex truncate, beneath which the outer margin is excavated and concave ; the inner margin is more or less sinuate. The poste- rior wings are subovate, strongly produced at the anal angle and scalloped on the lower third of the outer margin. The color of the upper surface of the wings is uniformly adull black except that upon the inner margin of the primaries, about half-way between the base and the outer angle, there is a large subquadrate spot of pure white. The color of the under side of the primaries is fuscous shading at the apex into a lavender gray. There is a patch of sooty upon the costal mar- gin and the upper part of the cell midway between the base and the apex. The white spot of the upper surface reappears upon the under side. The secondaries are lavender gray shading toward the outer margin into pale fuscous and ornamented by a number of very irregular dark maroon-colored lines and spots, which enclose at the end of the cell ;. large p.itch of silvery scales. Expanse of wings, 53 inm.
7 7,
1 ne specimen was developed from "a
very singular chrysalis, short and thick, and unlike anything of the kind I have
observed before, which was found upon
the under side of a large leaf. It was
black in color." (A. C. Good.)
Type <? in collection of Rev. W. J.
Holland.
This insect is closely allied in some
respects to Li$hy>,a leucyaka, Hew.
Neither of them are truly referable to
the genus L@yra and I propose for
their reception a new generic name
En Zi'hy?-a.
2. E. SUBFULVIDA, sp. nov.
Upper side of head, antennae, palpi, and thorax dark brown ; abdomen fulvous. An- terior wing strongly arched near the base, abruptly truncate at the apex, and slightly convex at the middle of the external margin ; the posterior wing is subovate, with the outer margin evenly rounded; the inner pargin is deeply excavated at the anal angle. The col- or of the anterior wing is deep cadmium yel- low, with the costal margin and the outer margin broadly dark brown. A black spot, fusing with thedark brown costal margin, is located at the end of the cell. The posterior wings are of the same color as the anterior,



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but the dark brown border is much wider and the cadmium yellow area is confined to a small space about the region of the cell. The inner margin, forming a groove in which the body is partly enclosed, is light yellow. The undersurface of both wings is uni-
formly cadmium yellow. Under surface of
the body, legs, and undersurface of the palpi of the same color.
Expanse 33 inni.
Type 9 in collection of Rev. W. J.
Holland.
It is with the greatest hesitation that
I refer this species to the genus Epitola, It will with the following- species prob- ably constitute a new genus.
The description of the form of the wings of the preceding is also applicable to the present species. The prevalent color of the upper surface of both wings is a purplish gray of a very delicate cast. The cell of the primaries and a streak beyond it j~ist below the costal margin are black.
Just beyond the end of
the cell the ground color of the wing fades into a pale blue, and the base of the wing is powdered with greenish scales. The outer margin is lightly shaded with brown. The posterior wings are ~~nifoi-mly of the ground color, save at the base, where they are pow- dered with greenish scales, and on the outer margin, where thej are more narrowlybrown than the primaries. The underside of both the primaries and the secondaries are laven- der gray. Just before the apex of the prima- ries a narrow band of dark brown scales takes its rise upon the costa and is extended
obliquely across the wing and continued upon the secondaries to the anal angle. The whole surface of both wings is further mottled with minute spots of dark brown, which under
the microscope are seen to be composed of from three to five dai-k-colored scales. Ex- Type 9 in collection of Rev. W. J.
Holland. ,
4. E. GOODII, Sp. 110V.
Upper surface of both primaries and secon- daries morpho-btiie.
The costa of the prim-
aries from the base and the apical half of the wing are broadly black. The blue cuts into the broad black area of the wing near the end of the cell. The margin of the secondaries is very narrowly black except at the outer angle which is somewhat broadly fuscous. The ihnder surface of both wings is chalky white, traversed by a number of irregular bands of faint brown. There is a very nar- row marginal black line. Expanse of wings 44 mm.
Type f in collection of the author.
The prevalent color of the upper surface of both wings is a very intense lapis lazuli, showing in certain lights a beautiful greenish iridescence. The costal margin of the prirn- aries is narrowly and the apical third broadly black. At the end of the cell there is a some- what curved triangular spot of the same
color, and the median and submedian nerves are covered with black scales toward the base. The anterior margin of the seconda- ries is broadly, and the external margin very narrowly black. The fringe of the primaries just before the outer angle, and the fringe of the secondaries just behind the outer angle is narrowly white. The underside of both
wings is dark plumbeous, ornamented with numerous transverse bands of waved lines and sagittate spots of a pale blue color, of which those at the outer angle of the prima- ries are the broadest. Expanse of wings 36 mm.
Type 8 in collection of the author.
panse of wings 42 mm.
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6. E. RENITENSIS. sp. nov.
The costal margin of the primaries of this small and well marked species is very strongly arched and the apex is more acute than in any other species of which the writer has knowledge. The color of the upperside of the anterior wings is black, ornamented with blue spots, of which one, very small, is situ- ated on the middle of the cell. and another of the same size, just beyond the cell ; while five are disposed in the form of a transverse submarginal series which is interrupted be- tween the second and third median nervules, and in which the spots increase in size toward the posterior margin. The base of the wing and the costa are powdered with a few scat- tering blue scales. The posterior wing is morpho-blue with the anterior and outer
margins and the median nerve and nervules broadly black. The inner margin is gray. The prevalent color of the under surface of both wings is a dark wood brown. The dis- cal area of the primaries is suffused with blackish. The spots of the upper side re- appear upon the under side as very faint bluish gray markings, the edges of which are rather sharper than upon the upper side. There is in addition a faint marginal band of lunules. The secondaries are ornamented
with a similar faint marginal and subinar- ginal band of l~~nules, and with three or four spots about the end of the cell.
Head, tho-
rax, and abdomen concolorous. Expanse of wings 30 rnm.
Type $ in collection of the writer.
7. E. UMBRATILIS, sp. nov.
Allied to E. marginaia, Kirby, but
differing from this species in being of a paler blue upon the upper surface, and
by not having the margin of the wings
denticulated and the denticulations dust- ed with white. Upon the under side
there are also marked differences.
The
general ground color is as in Kirby's
species, but the irregular zig-zag mark- ings are more numerous and more
sharply defined than in E. marghata,
and are disposed in well-marked trans-
verse series giving the wing a somewhat
banded appearance.
PHYTALA, Westw.
8. P. ELAIS, Doub, Hew.Female.
The female of this interesting species,
so far as I am at present aware, has not hitlierto been described. I have a spec- imen taken in coitu with a typical male. It is uniformly brown upon the upper
side except upon the apical half of the
primaries where the brown shades grad-
ually shade into deep velvety black,
which is interrupted beyond the end of
the cell by a broad subapical band of yel- low which extends from the costa to the
third median nervule, and is constricted at the upper radial. The under side is
not materially different in markings
from the male, except that the yellow
band faintly re-appears, and the general tone of the markings is lighter. Ex-
panse of wings, 67 mm. The example
was taken upon 5th Jan., 1887, at
Kangwe.
PSEUDERESIA, Butl.
9. P. 0-RUBRUM sp. nov.
This species is closely allied to P.
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426 PSYCHE. [November-December 1%.
in the almost entire absence of any red
markings on both sides of the 'wings.
My sole example is a female.
The upper side of the head, body and wings is uniformly dark brown.
The under side is
also dark brown, becoming paler at the base and the outer margins of both wings, which have a faint submarginal and marginal band of sagittate grayish spots disposed regularly upon the intra-neural spaces.
Four vermil-
ion spots are clustered about the end of the cell in the secondaries, and all of these except the one just beyond the end of the cell are pupilled with dark brown, giving them the appearance of the letter "0" in crimson. Expanse of wings 40 mm.
Type in author's collection.
10. P. LATRUNCULARIA, sp. nov.
Allied to P. helena, Druce, but dif-
fering in the following particulars :
1st. The total absence of all crimson
markings,
2nd.
The spots of the unde?- side,
which agree in the main in location
with the spots of the under side of P.
helena, as figured in Kirby & Smith
(except that the red ones are wanting),
are not yellow but brilliant white and
larger, and more sharply defined. Oth-
erwise the description of Mr. Druce
holds good.
This may prove to be a local or sea-
sonal form of P. helena.
Type $ in collection of the author.
I I.
P. DESPECTA, Sp. nOV.
8.
Upper surface uniformly dull purplish
black.
Under side dull blackish gray, dark-
est at the base of the primaries.
Both the
primaries and the secondaries are traversed by marginal, submarginal, and median bands of pale whitish sagittate marks. There are also upon the secondaries a number of ob- scure little markings in tlie region of the cell. 9. The female is like the male except
that the apex of the primaries is less acute and the outer margin more rounded, and the color of the upper surface is pale reddish brown.
Described from 5 8 8 and 2 9 9
in
the author's collection.
SPALGIS; Moore.
12. s. S-SIGNATA, Sp. IIOV.
8. Upperside. Head, thorax, abdomen,
and anterior wing upon the base, anterior margin, apex, and outer margin, black.
The rest of the upper surface of the wings pure white, except that there is a very fine black marginal line surrounding the sec- ondaries, and that the extremities of the nervules of these wings are marked with
black points. Underside. The underside is white shading into a very pale gray upon the costal and outer margin of the primaries. This shade is due apparently to the black upon the upper surface. The anterior wing has a triplicate, and the posterior wing a geminate marginal line. These are followed toward the base by series of more or less broken and interrupted lines, more thick- ly distributed at the base than elsewhere. In the cell there are two annular spots, of which the outermost and largest has the
appearance of the letter "S." The ends of the nervures are tipped with black. Expanse
34 mm.
$!. The female has the anterior wings
with the apex less produced, and the outer margin more rounded. The outer margin of the secondaries is also broadly black like the margin ofthe anterior wings. The under-



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side is white, all the narrow lines and inark- ings which appear in the case of the male being obsolete except those about the outer margins of the wings.
Expanse 30 mmr
Described from examples taken in
coitti, and contained in the collection of the author.
It is with much hesitation that 1 refer
this insect to Mr. Moore's genus S&d-
gis, but it comes nearer to it apparent- ly than to any other of these erected by lepidopterists. It will probably become
the representative ofa new genus, when
the future revision of the lycaenidae
takes place.
LACHNOCNEMA, Trim.
13. L. EXIGUUS, sp. nov.
Upperside. Head, thorax, abdomen and
antennae black.
Wings white with the cos-
tal and outer margins of the anteriors and the outer margin of the secondaries broadly black.
Underside.
Legs white, and also the ab-
domen except at the tip where it is fuscous. Wings white with the costa of the primaries narrowly and the apical third broadly washed with pale wood brown. The outer margin of the secondaries is also broadly suffused with the same color. Near the apex of the prim- aries there is a submarginal row of three and a marginal row of five gilt spots.
Near the
anal angle of the secondaries there is a similar series of marginal and submarginal spots, and upon the anterior margin of the secondaries there are three elongated coppery gilt spots. Expanse 25 mm.
Type 8 in collection of the author.
LARINOPODA, Butler.
14. -L" PERFRAGILIS, Sp. n0V.
Upper side.
Antennae, head, thorax, and
abdomen black. Wings pellucid, white. The costal and outer margins of the primaries are somewhat broadly and the outer margin of the secondaries very narrowly laved with black. There is a round black spot at the end of the cell of the secondaries.
Under side. Exactly as the upper. The
legs are crimson. Expanse of wings 40mm. Type in coll. Holland.
15. L. CAMPIMUS, sp. nov.
Allied to L. libyssa, Hew., and closely re- sembling it upon the upper side.
The broad
black margin of the wings is however quite regular and not excavated on the costa at the end of the cell of the primaries, and just below the outer angle of the secondaries as in L. libyssa, and the markings of the under surface being different do not appear the same upon the upper surface which permits of their be- ing seen on account of the partly diaphanous nature of the wings. Underside. Anterior wings white, with the costal and outer mar- gins broadly black, the black being extended downward upon the cell in the form of a con- pie of teeth. At the apex the black area is interrupted by a lunate white spot and a nar- row mai-g-inal line. The posterior wings are also white with the outer and inner margins broadly black. Just before the middle of the anterior margin a broad straight band of black arises and crosses the wing diagonally to the inner margin; a similar black band extending from near the outer angle of the wing runs parallel to and at a slight remove from the anterior margin and coalesces with the broad black diagonal band. The broad outer band of black is adorned near the outer angle bya large white spot which ih followed toward the anal angle by several smaller spots of the same color.
Expanse 28 mm.
Type $ in collection of the writer.




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428 PSYCHE.
[November-December 1890.
D'LJRBANIA, Trim. 1 7. D. OSHEBA, sp. 110~. Upperside of head, antennae, and body
dark brown. Ground color of both wings
orange red. The base and costa of the an- terior wing is covered with minute blackish striae and spots. The apex and outer mar- gin are black. There are three black spots in the cell of which the outermost is the largest, and there are three connected and somewhat irregLilai spots which form a band running from the middle of the costa toward the outer margin with which they partly fuse. The outer maig;n of the secondaries is
broadly dark brown, and the surface of the wing is very densely mottled with the little spots and striae described as appearing upon the primaries. This maculation is leaht
dense upon the nervures, and the wing has thus a rayed appearance imparted to it. The underside of the anterior wing is lighter red than the upper; the base, costa. apex, and outer margin are gray irrorrated with minute black dots. The spots reappear as upon
the upper burface, and in addition a
large spot between the second and third
Upperside of head and body black.
Wings
with their outer margins scalloped and the fringes narrowly gray between the extremi- ties of the nervules. The anterior wing is broadly black, with a minute spot of crimson near the base and a larger spot of the same color on the posterior margin. The hind- wing is crimson bordered evenly with black. In some specimens the border is narrower on the inner margin. There are a number
of small black spots at the base. The under- side of the wings is brown with a plumbeous sheen. There are a few obscure dark marks at the base of both wings. The crimson spot at the posterior margin of the primaries re- appears upon the lower side and is surmount- ed by a small spot of the same color. There are a few crimson spots at the base of the secondaries, and a curved band of crimson spots crosses the middle of the wing, which is darker in the region of this band than else- where. The female does not materially dif- fer from the male except as that sex always differs in the genus by having the apex of the primaries less acute. Expanse of wings 27 mm.
median nervules. The underside of the sec- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i b ~ d from two males and two