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tnre is, moreover, very misleading, if employed in lists of captures, because the use 

 of the same name for a certain cJ-form and for a certain ?-form obscures the 

 geographical distribution of the. varietal forms. For instance, " alladinis " is 

 recorded by Butler in his Revision from Lagos, Cameroons and Gaboon ; the form 

 inhabits most likely these places, but all the specimens mentioned from there by 

 Butler are males, while alladinis is the name of a certain kind ciijemale. Therefore 

 the record of males is no evidence that the particular ? " alladinis " occurs in 

 Lagos, Cameroons and Gaboon. What we want is a precise knowledge of the 

 distribution of the ? -form alladinis, and this knowledge will not be furthered by 

 employing the name alladinis for something that is not the ?-form alladinis. 

 Therefore, in the following synopsis a name employed for a (J-form will not be 

 used again for a ?-form. 



(J. Variable ; transitions between the different forms numerous ; form 4 is 

 apjjarently the most constant of ail. 



A. Forewing above : marginal greenish grey or bluish grey spots large ; at least 

 two postdiscal spots. 



a. Forewing falcate, above with more than two postdiscal spots, the spots not 



deeply arched ; the series mostly consisting of five to eight spots ; 

 admarginal spots SC^ — R' of hindwing above rather large, greenish 

 grey, with red centres ; postdiscal pale bluish green lunnles of same 

 wing often heavy, sometimes vestigial. Discal spots R^ — M' of fore- 

 wing above more or less marked (type), or absent. Reminding one of 

 gtuleriana, but the broad, pale blue, postdiscal band of the hindwing of 

 the latter species consists in the present form of Innules, which are, at 

 the utmost, 1 mm. broad. 1. c?-f. pieta Rothsch., f. nov. 



We possess this form, which seems to be confined to East Africa, 

 from : Unyoro : Kitanwa, 9. x. '97 {type f) ; Fajao, 25. xi. '97 ; 

 Kasokwa, 25. viii. '97 and 5. x. '97; Warringo River, 8. and 9. vii. '97 ; 

 Wakibara, 23. vii. '97 ; Kiorbezi, 4. i. '98 ; Kikoyero, 31. iii. '97 ; 

 Hoima, 23. viii. '97 ; Fovira, 9. v. '97 ; Busilika, Bulamwezi, 11. ii. '98 ; 



Karunga, Kyanika, Bulamwezi, 20. iii. '97. Quilimane, Portug. E. A., 



23. vii. '93. A long series, collected by Dr. Ansorge. 



b. Forewing above with more than two postdiscal spots, but the spots forming 



deeply arched, greenish, halfmoons, the horns of which reach the 

 marginal spots. 2. c?-f. fulgurata. 



Ch. ephyra var., Dewitz, I.e. t. 17. f. 10 (1887). 

 Ch. fulgurata Aurivillius, I.e. 



c. Forewing above with two postdiscal spots ; hindwing above with the post- 



discal spots SC^— R' heavily red in many specimens ; underside varying 

 from whitish grey to greyish clay colour ; generally somewhat smaller 

 than the form picta, sometimes (Angola specimen) resembling in shape 

 Ch. ethalion. 3. c?-f. chanleri. 



Ch. chanleri Holland, I.e. 



Ch. ephijra var. phaeacus Staudinger, I.e. 



In the Tring Museum from : Unyoro, Fajao, 15. and 20. vii. '97, Warringo R., 

 8. vii. '97 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Somalilaud : Walenso, Sheik Hnseiu, Upper Shebeli R., 

 5 to 7000 ft., wet country, 26. x. '94 (Dr. Donaldson Smith). German E. Afr : 



