434 Annals <;/' fhe Smith African Museum. 



Trausvaal ; 1 ? , Port Shepstoue, Natal ; St. Lucia Bay, Zululand 

 (x . 1919, Bell-Marley). Brit. Mus. : 1 9 , Pretoria. Coll. K. J. 

 Mortou: 1 (J, Delagoa Bay (7 . .\i . 1907, Miss Fouutaiue). Coll. 

 Ris: -2 (^,2 ? , Delagoa Bay (12 . xii . 1911) ; I S, Rikatla, Delagoa 

 Bay (1914., H. Juuod). Coll. E, B. Williamsou : 1 ?, woodside off 

 Umbilo Koad, Congella, Natal (G. F. Leigh). 



Found in all parts of the African continent, in Syria and on many 

 islands of the Indian Ocean; a closely- allied species occurs in Ceylon, 

 South India, Malacca and Borneo. Various names have been given 

 to individual varieties, sexually different specimens and stages of 

 maturity. The writer's experience fully justifies the relegation of 

 these names into syuouomy. 



TRAMEA (Hageu, 1861). 



Similar to Pantala in size, outline and general aspect, but with 

 important differences in neural and structural details. A moderate 

 number of species, most of them intertropical iu the Old World and 

 America, some extremely wide-ranging and polymorphous, having 

 given rise to a nuuilier of doubtfully valid names. 



Base of hind wiugs with a broad, golden-yellow spot, to anal angle and 

 distally to end of (, and a few cells in discoidal field. Within this yellow 

 spot a broad, roughly semicircular dark band, very dark reddish brown, 

 with reddish veins in male, black with yellow veins in female, constricted 

 or interrupted between anal angle of ( and A.^ in male, interrupted at same 

 place in female. Venation reddish to nodus, blackish more distally ; 

 pter6stigma light red ; menibranule white. Male : Face dull ochreous. 

 frous bright red with broad basal band black \vith metallic blue reflec- 

 tion. Thorax golden brown with an olivaceous shade and some blackish 

 dots at the sutures. Abdomen light red, very narrowly black at the 

 joints ; broad black dorsal spots on segments 8-10. Female : Frous 

 orange with basal l)lack band similar to male i olivaceous shade of 

 thorax more distinct ; abdomen reddish ochreous ; black lines at joints 

 distinctly broader than in male. Neuration darker. $ , Ahd. 31, hdn:. 



42,i)(. > 2, lomm. ? , 32, 42, 2-.5, 25 T. basilar is. 



Base of hind wings in male with a dark reddish-brown, red-veined spot ; 

 in c, sc and Jii about half way to Anq^, in cu to Cuq or a little beyond ; 

 distal limit a straight transverse line to anal margin, vertically to Cu. 

 In female the corresponding spot mostly smaller, not fully to anal 

 margin, diffusely lined witli golden yellow, indented at apex of mem- 

 branule liy a subhyaline spot. Venation red to slightly beyond nodus, 

 gradually darker distally. Pterostigma red ; membranule white. Male : 

 Face dull ferruginous ; frons brilliant metallic violet almost to anterior 

 margin. Thorax rich golden brown with blackish, slightly metallic 

 vestiges in the sutures. Abdomen red, part of carinae very narrowly 



