476 AURIVILLIUS, RHOPALOCKKA .ETHIOl'lCA. 



(1777). — Hekbst, Naturs. Schni. 3, p. 111, t. 37, f. 1, 2 (1788). — Staud., 

 Exot. Schm. 1, p. 12, t. 7 (1884). — Kaksch, B. E. Z. 38, p. 238 (1893). — 

 KiRBY, Handb. Lep. 2, p. 290 (1896). — fasoia alar. post. postice dilatata, inacula 

 area? 2^^' extus elongata quam inacula ai-ea> 1 c lougiore. 

 erinus Gray, Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1, p. 35 (1852). 



Sierra Leona^' — Elfenbeiuküste'''' — Asliaiiti'* — Tugo*'* — Niger'-*^ — Old 

 Calabar®' — Kainerun^^ — Gabun^° — Ohincboxo"'^ — Coiigogebiet: Baiigala'*^, 

 Kassai*'\ Inkissi'*^, Manyanga*', Leupoldville*\ Monbuttu'* — Angola^' ^' *^^ — Meru 

 See^^ — ?Brit. Ost-Afrika^': Sabaki^^ Wa^valnba"^ Kibwezi^^. 



°var. aristophontes Oberth., Bull. Eut. Fr. 1897, p. 188, figg. 6 cf, 7 ? (1897), Coli. 

 Oberth. — a forma typica vix differt nisi fascia maris paullo latiore maculisque 

 Omnibus submarginalibus alar. ant. feiniiiiv utrinque distinctis. 

 Comoren. 



var. lyseus Doubl., An. N. H. 16, \>. 178 (1845). — Wallexgr., Rhop. Caft'r., p. 1 

 (1857). — Oberth., Etudes d'Ent. 3. p. 13 (1878). — Trimen, S. Afr. Butt. 3, 

 p. 237 (1889); Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 69 (1894). — fascia alar. post. po.stice 

 haud dilatata, raacula ejus in area 2 extus oblique truncata nee elongata nee quam 

 maculaa areaä 1 c longiore. 



nireus Gramer, Pap. Exot. 4, p. 175, t. 378, f. F, G (1781). — Swainson, Zool. 

 111. (1) 3, t. 125 (1822). — BoiSD., Spec. Gen. 1, p. 224 (1836). — Trimen, Rhop. 

 Afr. Austr., p. 15 (1862). 



Metam.: Bakbek, Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1874, p. 519, t. 9 (1874). — Trimen, 

 S. Afr. Butt. 3, p. 240, t. 2, f. 5 (1889). 

 Kap Kolonie — Kaffernland^" — Natal — Zululand — Delagoa Bay — Transvaal 



— Manicaland^'' — Deutsch Ost-Afrika: Mpwapwa''^'' - — Abyssinien^. 



°var. (ab.?) pseudonireus Felder, Reise Novar. Lep., p. 94 (1865), Mus. Tring. 

 ? pseudonii'cus var.'? Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 633 (1895). 

 ?Nyassaland^^''^-''^" — Somaliland'"^^ — Abyssinicn. 



39. P. bromius Doubl., An. N. H. 16, p. 176 (1845), Mus. Brit. — Gray, Cat. Lep. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus. 1, p. 26, t. 6, f. 2 (1852). — Karsch, B. E. Z. 38, p. 238 (1893). 

 Sierra Leona^' — Liberia^-^ — Ashanti*^* — Togo^* — Kamerun^^ — Gabun*"^'^^ 



— Congogebiet: Bangala*'^, Inkissi Fluss*^, Kassai*^, Aruwimi*", Monbuttu* — 

 Aequatoria"*. Insel St. Thome"'^. 



var. brontes Godm., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 540 (1885), Mus. Brit. — Butler, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 737 (1896). — a forma typica dift'ert fascia angustiore 

 (8 — 11 Mill.), magis coerulea, alis ant. infra apice distincte brunneis, maculis 4 

 submarginalibus magnis bipartitis üavo-albidis in areis 1 b — 4 alisque ])ost. infra 

 magis brunneis absque lineis nigris intercostalibus in areis 2 — 7. 

 Nyassaland''-^" — Deutsch Ost-Afrika: Usiimbara'^*, Kilimanjaro, Tschagga/"* — 

 Brit. Ost-Afrika: /wischen Salt Lake und Wawamba"^, Kikuyu'^' — Somaliland: 

 Darro Berge'^o Mco'-". 



