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spots with white centres, the spots seldom so large that they almost touch each 

 other, the middle ones mostly absent, the npper two often joined to the black 

 basi-discal area, a thin, sharply defined, marginal line black ; abdominal fold 

 clayish brown. 



Underside bistre brown, with a pinkish and nifons tint, basal areas, proximal 

 part of discal areas and part of outer areas, especially in apical region of forewing, 



with a pinkish grey gloss. Forewing : cell-bar 2 short, ovate or ronnded, bar 



3 represented by two heavy dots, bar 4 obliqne, curved distad in middle, con- 

 cave near ends, continuous with submedian bars M' — SM-, submediau bar M- — SM^ 

 generally heavy, like the respective median one ; median bars more or less continu- 

 ous, parallel to the submedian series, crossing R- close to lower angle of cell, the 

 brown median interspaces band-like ; discal bars feebly marked, arched, concave 

 distally, the series about midway between median bars and outer margin, obtusely 

 angled at R' ; postdiscal bars M- — SM- represented by two ill-detiued, black, 

 patches, which are often preceded by a patch M' — M^ ; posterior postdiscal and 



submarginal interspaces more or less obscurely cinnamon rufous. Hindwing : no 



basal and subbasal costal bars, subbasal bar C — SO- also absent ; submedian and 

 median bars forming two continuous lines, which are parallel, costal bars heavier 

 than the others, brown median interspaces band-like ; glossy scaling at outside of 

 median line band-like ; discal and postdiscal bars arched, parallel, the double series 

 somewhat angled at R-, interspaces rufous red, upper ones more olive ; black sub- 

 marginal bars thin, last two small dots, the upper ones obsolete or vestigial, the 

 others concave proximally, edged purplish white distally, white submarginal dots 

 shaded with purple ; admarginal interspaces continuous, except upper one which is 

 isolated, rufous red, anal one olive buff; black marginal line edged with bluish 

 white, metallic plumbeous at anal angle ; tails short, triangular. 



? . Wings broader, hindwing less triangular, outer margin of forewing less 



concave than in S. Upperside dull brownish lilack. Forewing : a pale orange 



disco-postdiscal band anteriorly divided into two discal and three postdiscal spots, 

 while the discal and postdiscal sjjots R- to internal margin show seldom vestiges of 

 a black line separating them ; discal and postdiscal spots R' — R- sometimes joined 

 together along R^, the band 8 to 10 mm. broad at SM^, more or less concave between 



the veins at both sides. Hindwing : the band continued to abdominal margin, 



narrowed beyond (SM'), very little narrower in front than behind, paler than on 

 forewing, except at outer edge ; submarginal white dots seldom all marked, upper 

 ones mostly obsolete, sometimes all obsolete except the last two ; admarginal inter- 

 spaces orange, continuous, interstitial spot C— SC sometimes separated, anal one 

 thin, olive buff. 



Underside, paler than in cf , bars heavier ; discal and postdiscal interspaces of 

 forewing pale buff, except a brown patch SL? — R^ at proximal side of discal liars, 

 more than proximal half of discal interspaces of hindwing occnpied by creamy 

 band, tails longer than in <?. 



Length of forewing : S , 28 — 31 mm. 

 „ „ ?, 31—33 mm. 



Clasper with the rather broad apex narrowed into a hook which points mesiad ; 

 penis-funnel short, narrow, triangular, gradually curved in a side view, apex 

 produced downwards into a sharp, rather long, pointed, tooth ; penis armed 

 about 2 mm. from end by a short row of rather heavy dorso-lateral teeth. 

 Hab. West Africa from Senegambia to Angola and Uganda. 



