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Joum. Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 3G6. n, 39 (189C) (S. Leone ; Isubu ; Cameroons ; 0. Calabar ; 

 Fernando Po ; Accra ; Ashanti ; Angola) ; Auriv., K<mf/l. Sc. Vet. Ah. llamll. XXXI. 5. p. 234. 

 n. 19 ( 1899) (Sierra Leone to Angola and the Aruwimi R.). 



(J. Head, pronotum and auterior portiou of mesonotnm as well as upperside of 

 palpi dark cinuamou rufous, rest of meso- and metanotum brownish black, abdomen 

 chestnut, dots on head and pronotum obsolete or absent ; underside ochraceous 

 tawny, breast more hazel, palpi with a black dorso-lateral stripe which is thinly 

 edged with white beneath ; middle and hinder femora black above, with a sprinkling 

 of whitish scales. 



Wings, above, with a strong pnrplish blue sheen all over in side-light, black, 

 ■cell of forewing cinnamon rnfons, this colour extending more distad at costal 

 margin and occupying also base of wing beyond cell where it shades into the black 

 colour ; discal and admarginal marking rufous orpiment orange, the discal band 



of the hindwing anteriorly somewhat paler. Forewing : cell-bar 4 more or less 



heavily marked, bars 2 and 3 mostly vestigial ; bar D broad, generally partly 

 separated from the black discal area by some rufous orpiment orange spots, never 

 quite isolated ; a postdiscal band of spots, straight, almost parallel to margin, about 

 4 mm. broad at SM^, decreasing in width costad, the upper spots rounded, spot 

 SC* — SC° mostly very small, sometimes absent ; admarginal spots halfmoon-shaped, 



the series complete, the upper ones smaller, spots BI- — SIP not fused together. 



Hindwing : disco-postdiscal band of nearly even width, proximally sinuate at SG-, 

 crossing K' at right angles, 4 to 7 mm. broad at this vein, its inner edge crossing M 

 at point of origin of M' ; admarginal interspaces developed to a complete, uninter- 

 rupted band of halfmoons, about 4 mm. wide between veins ; marginal black line 

 barely A mm. broad, not interrupted ; snbmargiual dots M- — SM° minute, bluish 

 white, the others absent as a rule, but in one of our examples (from the Congo) all 

 the dots vestigial ; edge of wing strongly dentate. 



Underside : reddish chestnut, forewing somewhat paler than hindwing shading 

 from M' to internal margin into orange buif ; basal to median bars black, clearly 



marked, edged with bluish white. Forewing: no basal cell-spot, cell-bars 2 and 3 



rather heavy, but short, bar 4 thinner, not, or slightly, curved or angled, about 

 at right angles to veins ; bar D thin, anteriorly dilated distad ; submedian bars 

 M' — (SM') very heavy, patch-like, bar M' — M- distal of base of M', no snbuiedian 

 bar R^ — M' ; median bars M' — SM- heavy, widely separate from submedian bars, 

 median bar R^ — M' thin, more distal than bar M' — M-, 7 to 9 mm. from base of M', 

 oblique, inclining basal costally, like bar M' — M^, bar R-— R' 1 or H mm. from cell, 

 thin, bars SO' — R^ in the usual place, each one angle-shaped, the jioints of the 

 angles directed distad ; discal bars SC'' — (SM') vestigial, represented by chestnut 

 spots which are arranged in an oblique series that anteriorly slightly curves costad 

 and posteriorly touches median bar M- — (SM') ; postdiscal bars SC — -M' represented 

 by similar spots, which are luniform and open basad, postdiscal bar M' — M- heavier, 

 more or less black, bars M- — SM- represented by a large black patch that extends 

 to internal margin, veins M^, (SM') and SM- with pale blue scaling within and at 

 that patch, postdiscal and admarginal interspaces rather paler than the rest of the 



wing, especially behind. Hindwing : black bars thin ; basal costal bar short, 



distant from PC, no subbasal bar C — SC^, no basal cell-spot, sabmedian series 

 extending to (SM'), much broken, cell-bar 4 reaching M at point of origin of M- ; 

 median series also broken, bar C — SC- arched, bars M- — SM^ generally not distinct, 

 reaching abdominal margin 4 or o mm. from tip of SM^ ; discal and postdiscal bars 



