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bars absent, their white borders fnsed to a band of 2 to 3 mm. width which is 

 continuous with the cell-liar 2 ; upper three (or more) black median bars absent, 

 their white borders fused with the white discal band, but parti}' separated from 

 it by tawny chestnut spots, white borders of cell-bar 4, bar D aud median bar 

 B,2 — W fused together at E^, submedian bar M^ — (SM') nearly longitudinal, joining 

 line (SM'), median bar M" — (SM') more distal than in pollux, continuous with 

 median bars (SM') — SM^ which join together the ends of the abdominal lines ; 

 white discal baud inclusive of white borders of median bars (5 mm. wide at C, 

 strongly narrowing behind ; of the discal series of black bars only those beyond 

 M° are present, forming a nearly straight line at the outer edge of the white 

 band ; the interspace between the white submedian and mediano-discal bands 

 4 to 5 mm. broad at SC", rather regular in shape down to M ; postdiscal 

 interspaces fused to a band of the same colour as the basal area of the wing ; 

 postdiscal black bars varying in width, more or less luniform, heavily bordered 

 with white distally, position of bars nearly as in pollux, bars R' — R^ being more 

 distal than the others, bar M' — M- closer to snbmarginal one than in pollux ; 

 submarginal bars transverse, the upper one or two luniform, concave distally, 

 bars M' — SM^ also somewhat arched, concave proximally, the last fused with 

 postdiscal ones to a ring (or double ring), filled up with olive (which is often the 

 case with the ovate interspace between postdiscal and submarginal bars M' — M*) 

 and including two white and blue dots, but no white scaling at postdiscal bar, 

 submarginal bars C — M" heavily bordered white proximally, thinly so distally, bar 

 M' — M- generally with a blue dot in white scaling ; submarginal interspaces less 

 bright in colour than the postdiscal band, more or less cinnamon rufous; adniarginal 

 interspaces rectangular, upper one halfmoon-shaped, contiguous, ferruginous tawny, 

 the posterior ones pale ochraceons ; black marginal line thinly but obviously edged 

 with white ; edge of wing much less sharply dentate than in ordinary pollux, 

 agreeing in this respect with phoehus, tooth M' very short, rounded, tail R' 4 to 

 5^ mm. long, second 5 to 6 mm. 



?. Like 3, larger, discal band of upperside paler, sometimes buff yellow, tails 

 very long, slender, but less pointed than in pollux and allies, tail R^ 9 to 10 mm., 

 tail M- 9 to 10 mm. long. 



Length of fore wing : S , 3.5 — 40 mm. 

 „ „ ?, 42— 48 mm. 



Penis thick, a large subapical tooth with several small ones close behind. 



Hub. " Old Calabar," " Gaboon," according to Butler ; Congo, Angola, 

 Nyassaland, Zambesi, Natal. In the Tring Museum 3 c?c?, 3 ?? from: South 

 of Congo, Congo Free State ; Zomba, December 1895 (Dr. Percy Rendall) ; 

 Lauderdale ; Karkloop, Natal, April. 



The Natal specimens have the black colour of the upperside on the whole 

 rather more extended than the individnals from Angola and the Congo, and the 

 discal interstitial band is paler orange. Whether the species really extends to 

 Old Calabar, whence the type is said to be from, is more than doubtful. 



h*. Forewing above : no cell patch, median, discal and postdiscal bars all merged 

 together to a large black area, which is narrow behind. 



