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mucli the largest. With the eseeptiou of the latter, tliese spots are evanescent in 

 the speeimeii from Nyangori, in which however distinct traces of the corresponding 

 spots upon the under surface of the wing are visible. 



(Jnder-side: paler than the up))er-side ; the whole of the hind-wing and the 

 cosia, apex and hind margin of the fore-wing being a dull bufF. The rest of the 

 fore-wing is of the same colour as the upper-side. The black border of both wings is 

 absent, but there is a narrow black marginal line inside the black fringe. The 

 fringe is interrupted opposite the interncrvular spaces by the spreading outwards 

 of the ground colour. In the fore-wing these buff sections of the fringe are smaller 

 than in the hind-wing where they may be much larger than the black sections. 

 Within the fringe the narrow black line is thickened opposite the black sections, 

 interrupted opposite the buff. A series of iidernervular black more or less linear 

 markings occupies a subniarginal position. In the hind-wings these markings are 

 oval or moniliform spots ; in the fore-wing they become more and more linear towards 

 the apical angle. The spot nearest the iinier margin of the fore-wing is especially 

 rounded in one specimen from Toro and of exceptionally large size, I'ccalling the 

 appearance in P. amenalda var. nyassana, Auriv. Each inwardly directed angle 

 of the serrated margin on 1 he upper-side coincides with the position of one of these 

 marks on the under-side, as can be easily seen when the specimen is held to the 

 light. 



All the spots upon the upper sui'face are represented by corresponding ones 

 (which are generally better marked) on the under-surface. This is especially the 

 case in the discal rows of spots on both wings. That on the fore-wing comprises 

 six spots, two of them being in the apical region, and that on the hind seven 

 similar spots. 



Additional marks on the under-surface are, in the fore-wing, a fourth distally 

 placed subcostal spot, and in the land- wing three large spots, placed just beyond 

 the posterior margin of the discoidal cell. 



Ill the reduction of the uumber of spots and in the sub-marginal 

 streaks on the under-surface, P. clarennis exhibits an approach to P. 

 paicli, Staud., but the reduction in the number of spots is not carried 

 to the same extent, nor are tbe submarginal marks on the under- 

 surface so linear in form as in that species. It is also interesting to 

 note that in st)me specimens of P. fropicalis, Boisd., there is a feeble 

 representation of the same serrated border to the hind-margin of the 

 fore-wing which occurs in P. clarensis. 



There can be but little doubt that P. clarensis provides an 

 instance of Miillerian association with the very plentiful and widely 

 distributed Pardopsis punctatissima, Boisd., to which it bears a marked 

 general resemblance. 



Three specimens of this Ltjccenid, all J's, have recently been 

 presented to the Hope Collection by Mr. Clare Aveling Wiggins, of 

 Kisumu, after whom the species has been named. Two of them 

 were collected by natives for Major liattray in the Toro district in 



