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(Kassai ; Congo) ; Auriv., Eiit. Tidshr. XII. p. 215. n. 142 (1891) (ngiiis=ame!iae) : Schaus 

 & Clements, Sierra Leone Lej.kl. p. 9 (1893) ; Karsch, Berl. E„t. Zeilschr. XXXVIII. p. 192. 

 n. 55. (1893) (Adeli, Togo) ; Auriv., /.,-. XV. p. 310. n. lill (1894) (Ekundu, N'Dian, 

 Cameroon.*, March) ; Butl., ./mini. Linn. Soc. Litml. XXV. p. 374. n. 68 (1896) (S. Leone ; 

 Cameroons ; O. Calabar ; Accra) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. Ak. UumU. XXXI. 5. p. 240. n. 47 (1899) 

 (S. Leone to Congo). 



Nijmplialis iniieliae, Kirby, Cut. D'liini Lep. p. 270. n. 28 (1871) (Afr. occ). 



Villi rii.ieii reijiiis Aurivillius, F.nl. Tiihkr. X. p. 191 (1889) (Cameroons). 



(? ¥ . Bofh) above : olive black in cJ, blackish sepia in front, in ¥ bistre brown, 

 thorax more olive, white dots on head and pronotnm conspicuous ; umlerside cream 

 colour, sides of breast and legs more gre}-, abdomen of ¥ clayisli bnif, seldom drab. 



S. Winys above : velvety blue-black, marking.s pale smalt bine appearing pearl 



bine or purplish in side-lig-ht. Forewing: anterior half or two-thirds of the basal 



thirds of the cell occupied by a triangular patch which is 3 mm. broad at the slightly 

 sinuated apex and includes mostly a black dot at two-thirds of its length (the black 

 dot corresponding to njiper part of cell-bar 3 of iiiider.vile), costal margin more or 

 less pale blue (upper layer of scales), excej)t in apical third ; a subrectangular patch 

 R- — R^ jnst beyond apex of cell, about 3 mm. long, three more discal spots between 

 SC* and R- about S mm. from cell, the first of them linear, thin, the second more or 

 less rectangular, about 3 mm. long and 11 mm. broad, tlie third linear, often absent; 

 a postdiscal series of eight spots, almost straight from R' to internal margin, spot 

 R' — R- 4 mm. distant from outer margin, last spot mm., first spot more proximal, 

 lu mm. from apex of wing, the spots gradually increasing in size towards internal 

 margin, spot R'— R'^ the smallest, about 1 mm. wide, sjiot M-— SM' the largest, 

 about 4 mm. long and 2^ broad, that at internal margin often longer ; a streak of 

 8 to 11 mm. length at base before SM" ; a series of small admarginal dots, dots 



M^ — SM- well separated. Hindwing : a discal series of patches, as continuation 



of the postdiscal series of the forewing, extends from C" to (SM'), forming a band 

 which is interrupted at R' and incised distally upon R-, the band very variable in 

 width, widest behind, extending into apex of cell, patch .S(J-— R' more or less 

 rounded, a postdiscal patch (_' — SC-, occasionally reduced to a small limnle, a little 

 more distal than patch SC- — R', seldom with a discal patch at proximal side : a 

 series of eight snbmarginal spots parallel to outer margin, barely 2 mm. distant from 

 it, the spots rounded, of about equal size, diameter H to 2 mm., spots M- — SIP 

 seldom contiguous ; a series of admarginal bars, dilated distad at ends, slightly 

 constricted in middle, almost continuous from R- to anal angle, spots C— R' seldom 

 vestigial ; abdominal fold hair brown, seldom uniform in colour, mostly edged with 

 creamy buff, or assuming a white buff tint beyond end of SM-^, the long liairs before 

 the fold brownish black, with a chocolate hue, the bases of the hairs paler. 



Underside : olivaceous wood brown, with a yellowish tint, shaded with ecru 



drab on hindwing, white borders of black bars slightly bluish. Forewing : no 



basal cell-spot, cell-bar 2 curved, bar 3 interrupted into a larger posterior and 

 smaller anterior spot, bar 4 distally convex in middle and concave near both ends, 

 bnt more obviously so in upper half; subbasal bar M- — (SM') sometimes repre- 

 sented by a spot ; snbmedian bar M' — M- jnst behind, or a little proximal of, base of 

 M', bar M^— (SM') about 2 mm. more proximal, both generally at right angles to 

 veins ; median bars R'— M- slightly concave distally, bar W — M' 5 mm. from base 

 of M', bar M' — M'^ abont 2 mm. more proximal, bar M-— SM- more straight, 

 generally triangularly dilated proximally upon (SM'), again 2 mm. more proximal 

 than bar M' — M-, at right angles to M-, median bar U-— R^ touching bar D at lower 



