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5 0 pS?'-cHE. [March 1891.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW WEST AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE; PAPER'I'I. *
BY W. J. HOLLAND, PITTSBURGH, PA.
THE following descriptions have been
lying in my portfolio for some time, and I have been intending to add to, them
descriptions of a dozen or more other
species which are manifestly nonde-
script, but finding no time at my com-
mand in which to execute this purpose,
I herewith present them as they are.
The insects all come from the region of
the upper waters of the Ogov6, River in
West Tropical Africa, and were cap-
tured by Mr. Good.
Pittsburgh, Jan. 3 I, 1891.
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color of the wings white.
The anterior wing
is marked as upon the upper surface except that the cell at the base is deeply black, the two outermost of the broad black bands are traversed in the middle by a narrow whitish line, while the white of the surface replaces the daik outer margin from the outer angle upwards for half of the distance to the apex. The fringe is hlack. The posterior wings are marked by a ray of dark brown running from the base along the submedian nervure about half way to the anal angle. Two faint brown lines run transversely across the wing in a direction approximately parallel to the outer margin toward the anal angle, and two similar lines run parallel along the inner margin and all converge in the neighborhood PSEUD ALETIS Di-uce.
of the anal angle, which is broadly laved I. P. zebra, sp. nov. Upperside :-Head
and thorax yellowish brown, abdomen white- ringed with pale gray, and tufted at the anal extremity wit11 fulvous. Anterior wings
white, faintly laved near the base with stra- mineous, and n:u-rowly bordered upon the costa and broadly bordered upon the outer with yellow and marked by two small black *spots at the points where the tails are given off. The outer margin is fringed with black. The markings of the underside of the poste- rior wings re-appear to some extent upon the upper surface. Type, 8, in the collec- tion of the author.
margin with black, and further ornamented by three broad black bands, the first and shortest of which crosses the cell about the middle, the next is situated at the extremity of the cell, and a third, which runs from the costa about one-third of the distance from the apex, across the wing in the direction of the outer angle until it is fused with the broad black external margin. The posterior wings are white with a black border, narrow at the external angle and gradually increasing in width toward the anal angle. The tails are very small and black. Underside:-
Thorax, abdomen and legs fulvous. Ground * For Paper I see Psyche, v. 5, p 423.
LYCAENESTHES Moore.
2. L. scintillida, sp. nov. f. Upper-
side :-Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen black; wings lustrous orange-red with the costa of the primaries at the base and near the apex somewhat broadly margined with
black, and the costa and the inner margin of the secondaries very broadly margined with the same color. The fringes of both wings are black and near the anal angle of the sec-, ondaries there are three small black spots, of which two are marginal, and the third is sit- uated above the one nearest the anal angle and is subhastate in form. Underside: -
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Ground color pinkish white with the wings barred and mottled by spots of brown and black. Near the anal angle of the secondaries are two red marginal spots pupilled with black, irrorated with greenish-blue scales. Expanse of wings 25 nim.
Types, four $ $ in collection of au-
thor and one $ presented to the British
Museum. (L ycaenesthes scintillans
Holland, MS.)
3. L. reg'illits, sp. nov. 9. Upperside
dark fuscous with white spaces and black spots. The white spaces are located just be- yond the cell and between the median ner- vules upon the primaries, and are disposed in the form of a marginal band upon the sec- ondaries. Both wings have a conspicuous
black spot at the end of the cell defined in- wardly by a narrow white line, and succeeded externally by a transverse series of similar spots. The primaries have in addition two subbasal spots of black. Both wings are bor- dered heavily with black and the posteriors have in addition geminate white marginal lines. Underside :-The ground color of the wings is white. The markings have a general likeness to those of the preceding species, but owing to the lighter ground color of the wings they are more'conspicuous. Expanse of wings 25 mm. Type, 2, in collection of the writer.
It is barely possible that this is the
female of L. sci~ztillula, but I hesitate to declare it such and name it provision- ally.
4. L. lychna'ptes, sp. nov. Allied to the two preceding species and to L. leptines Hew.
3. Upperside :-Antennae, head, thorax,
and abdomen black; wings shining orange- red, the anteriors with the costa broadly and evenly bordered with black and the outer margin bordered with the same color, the width of the border gradually diminishing from the apex to the outer angle. The pos- terior wings are broadly bordered with black upon the costal and inner margins, and nar- rowly upon the outer margin near the anal angle. Underside : -The ground color of
the wings is black, both have black fringes, both have narrow, geminate white marginal lines, and both are traversed by irregular se- ries of more or less broken narrow white lines. The posterior wings are adorned
with a small black spot at the extremity of the first median nervule, crowned with red and irrorated with blue scales, and with a similar black spot at the end of the subnie- dian nerve. This latter spot is not crowned with red.
Expanse of wings 20 mm.
Types in col-
lection of the writer.
There is a female which is upon the
under surface almost the exact counter-
part of the male just described, but the upperside of the wings is almost uni-
formly blackish brown. Whether this
is the female of L. Zychnaftes, or not,
it is impossible to tell at this time,
though the presumption is that this sur- mise as to the relation of the two forms is correct.
5. L. mbricinctus, sp. nov. Male : - Up- perside :-Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Wings dark fiiscous except upon
the margin of the secondaries, which are adorned by a band of orange red extending from the upperradial to the anal angle. This band is marked at each of the intra-neural spaces by a marginal spot of black, of which that situated between the firht and second median nervules is the largest. Underside :- The ground color is pale fawn color, grow- ing paler toward the outer margin, and be- coming almost white near the outer margin of the secondaries. Both wings have a short ,



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transverse bar at the end of the cell bordered outwardly by a fine paler line; both wings have an irregular transverse band of similar spots, and a submarginal line followed by a marginal series of triangular spots. The secondaries have two ma]-ginal spots of black crowned with red and irrorated with blue- green scales.
Expanse of wings 27 rnm. Type in the
writer's collection.
6. L. tisamenus, sp. nov. Allied to L.
sylvanus, but less than half the size.
Upperside :-The color of the upperside of the wings i^i uniformly dark violaceous. Un-
derside :-The ground color of the underside of the wings is a light fawn.
Primaries.-
Just beyond the cell of the primaries there is a dark transverse band which i& interrupted between the median nerv~iles. and defined both externally and internally by lighter lines. This is followed toward the margin by a broader and darker transverse band, which runs from the costa to the first median nei-vule, and is followed by a narrow brown submarginal line. The fringes are dark
brown. Secondaries. -There are two sub-
triangular spots of dark brown, almost black, upon the middle of the secondaries near the costal margin, a similar spot at the end of the cell, and one upon the inner margin
about its middle. These spots are followed upon the limbal area by darker shades, out- wardly edged by pale lines. The fcubmar- ginal line of the primaries is continued upon the secondaries, enlarging at the first median nei-vule, and just before the anal angle into red marginal spots pupilled with black. The fringes are as on the primaries. The palpi and the abdomen upon the lower side are
white.
Expanse of wings 20 mm. Type in the
collection of the author.
NACADUBA Moore.
7. N. sfrafola, sp. nov. 8. Upperside :- Both the primaries and the secondaries are dark shining brown in certain lights reflect- ing very obscurely a greenish blue gloss. The cilia are lighter. Underside : - The ground color is a slaty gray, much paler than the upper surface. Both wings are adorned by a marginal row of small dark spots, suc- ceeded inwardly by a row of sagittate marks, defined inwardly and outwardly by fine light lines. The marginal spot at the anal angle and the one between the first and second me- dian nervule of the secondaries are deep black crowned with a fine line of bright blue. The dibcal and basal areas of both wings are adorned with dark spots arranged in bands and all defined on the inner and outer edges with lighter colored lines. The inner margin of the primaries is lighter than the rest of the wing.
9. The female does not differ materially from the male in color and size.
Expanse of wings 26 mm.
Described from numerous examples
in the collection of the author.
LY CAENA Fabr.
8. L. 'pahidicola, sp. nov. Upperside : - The prevalent color is dark gray, the poste; rior winp being ornamented with a very
narrow marginal line, within wliich are lo- cated between the extremities of the nervules toward the anal angle six subtriangular black spots margined with pale blue. Underside :- The underside is paler in color than the up- perside. Both wings have a double dark line at the end of the cell, defined outwardly and inwardly with light lines. Succeeding this upon both wings are bands of darker mark- ings defined by lighter shades on either side, and succeeded by a submarginal row of lu- nules defined in the fcarne way. The poste- rior wings are further ornamented by two subquadrate dark brown spots situated upon the costa, one near the middle, the other near the base; and by a circular spot of the same color upon the inner margin near the base. Of the black spots which are so con-



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spicuous upon the margin of the posterior wings upon the upperside, only those just at the anal angle and the two between the me- dian nervuies reappear upon the underside. Of these the two at the anal angle are ob- scure, while those between the median ner- vules are large and very distinct. They
are all crowned with red lines and have their black centres irrorated with shining green scales.
Expanse of wings 28 mm. Type in the
collection of the author.
I have assigned this species in a gen-
eral way to Lycaena Fabr., feeling un
able to refer it to any of the recent
subdivisions of the genus instituted by
the Indian lepidopterists, without such
an examination of the neuration as I do
.
not feel justified in making with only
one specimen at my disposal. It is very
different in appearance from any othel
species of the group known to me, and
recalls Psetfdodipsas cephenes Hew., '
so far as the coloration of the upperside of the secondaries is concerned.
ON AN IMPORTANT CHARACTER,
HITHERTO LITTLE NOTICED, IN THE
FAMILY BUPRESTIDAE.
BY FREDERICK BLANCHARD.
In Comstock's Introduction to Entomology, part i, the many excellencies of which and its fresh treatment of the subject lead US to hope for the early appearance of the succeeding parts, on page 18, there is given a figure of the underside of Euchroma gQantea Linn. in
which is shown the antecoxal piece of the me- tasternum, separated by a short transverse su- ture, the ends arcuately bent towards and reaching the hind coxae. This appears to be the first distinct reference to this pecu- liarity of the Buprestidae so far as I can learn. Deyrolle, in his Buprestides de la Malasie, plate 4, figs. 3 and 4 exhibits the same thing', but in fig. 25, illustrating the underside of a species of Pachyscelis, the suture is not indi- cated. There is, however, no reference to the antecoxal piece in the text.
From the examination of a considerable
number of genera in this family during the last few years, both native and foreign, it ap- pears that this structure is always present and is of much greater importance in limiting the family than the connate first and second ven- tral~ chiefly depended upon heretofore.
Although the members of the family Bu-
prestidae are usually quite easily recognized, some early errors would have been avoided had this character been observed or appi-eci- ated; in our own fauna, notably in the case of the genus Schizopus Lee., for the recep- tion of which a distinct family, the Schizo- podidae, was created although afterwards suppressed.
It need hardly be said that the existence ot an antecoxal piece, seen elsewhere among Co- leoptera, so far as I know, only in the Ade- phaga, where the importance of its existence and of its modifications! have been so skilfully demonstrated by Dr. Horn, does not necessa- rily imply any relationship of the Buprestidae to that series, but adds another, and a most impressive one, to the many known instances of the repetition of characters or structures in widely different families, which have been noticed by writers, and especially by Dr. Horn.
HARRISIMEMNA TRISIGNATA-I found two
of these grotesque larvae on Spiraea tomen- tosa, Sept. 22nd, Northborough, Mass. The only food-plant given by Mr. Edwards is
6bSyt+nga." The larva bored into bits of rotten wood, and "backed out" with the
chips. These chips were rolled into neat pellets of almost uniform size, very round,



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