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R'— R', bar R-— R' arched, about 1 mm. from base of M', bars R'— SM- nearly 

 contiunous, crossing M' about 3 to 4 mm. from base ; discal bars all regularly 

 arched, only the jiosterior ones well marked, the others obsolete or absent, but the 

 white distal borders more or less preserved, postdiscal bars represented by olive 

 brown, ill-defiued, patches, but bars M' — SM'' thin and arched, sometimes tawny 

 olive, but mostly black ; snbmarginal dots white and blue, followed by black dots, 

 upper black dots absent from most specimens ; admarginal interspaces occupied by 

 creamy bnif spots, which are generally shaded in middle by olive buff; admargiaal 

 line fuscous, forming lunules between veins ; submedian interspaces and small 

 patches at outside of median bars pale clayish wax yellow ; tails pointed, upper one 

 3 to 5i mm. long, second 2 to_3 mm. 



? . W/nffs ahore : pale tawny olive. Forewing : apical half blackish brown, 



with a purplish sheen in side-light, variable in the depth of the brown tint ; a white, 

 oblique, posteriorly slightly curved, discal band crosses wing from costal margin to 

 SM-, generally well separated by the veins into patches, patch R' — R^ about 10 mm. 

 long, patches R^ — SM' more or less sinuate distally, patch M' — M- very oblique 

 proximally, patches M- — SM" much smaller, often much shaded with tawny olive, 

 the patches more or less heavily bordered blackish brown proximally, upper angle 

 of cell also blackish brown ; a postdiscal series of two larger white spots followed 

 by four indistinct tawny olive ones, spot M' — M^ contiguous with the white band ; 

 marginal spots much less obvious than in c?, in most individuals the last two alone 



well marked. Hindwing : median bar C — SC'^ generally marked, with a white 



patch at outside, white is seldom obsolete ; a postdisco-marginal band of the colour 

 of the apical area of the forewing, bordered proximally by a series of more or less 

 vestigial clayish spots which correspond to the blue postdiscal spots of the S, the 

 band convex between veins proximally, wider in front than behind ; within it we 

 find a series of purplish blue submarginal spots, mostly with white centres, and a 

 series of clayish buff, transverse, spots, constricted or interrupted at the inter- 

 nervular folds ; extreme edge clayish between veins, fringe white, except at ends 

 of veins. 



Underside : similar to c?. Black bars of forewing heavier, median bars more 

 oblique, bar R^ — M' more straight, generally at right angles to M', seldom touching 

 upper end of oblique bar M' — M'-'; band less interrupted at veins than on upperside; 

 discal bar M' — SM'- often obsolete ; black postdiscal patches M' — SM" smaller than 

 in S. Upper tail of nearly even width, not pointed, Ti to 9 mm. long, second 

 2 to 4 mm. 



Length of forewing : c?, 44 — 52 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 48—58 mm. 



Clasper not essentially different from those of the allied species, upper edge 

 irregularly notched and dentated before tip (PI. VIII., f. 20) ; penis with a single 

 dorsal tooth 1 mm. before tip (PI. VIII., f. 7) and a rather high dorsal ridge about 

 2^ mm. before apex, the ridge variable in outline. 



Huh. From Sierra Leone to Angola and British East Africa and (according to 

 Butler) Brit. Central Africa ; not in the coast regions of East Africa, nor in South 

 Africa; a common insect. In the Tring Mnsenm 70 (?c?, 20 ? ? from: Sierra 

 Leone ; Accra ; Coomassie ; 0. Calabar ; Cameroons ; Gaboon and Ogowe ; Congo : 

 Stanley Pool, Lukolele, Bopoto, Kassai : Aruwimi Forest (Dr. Ansorge) ; Unyoro 

 (Dr. Ansorge): Warringo R., 9. vii. 97, Kaligire, 5. i. 9s, Fajao, l8. vii. and 10. xii. 

 97 ; Uganda Protectorate (Dr. Ansorge): .Ran, Nandi country, Marcli 1898. 



