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XcpMr charnha Kirby, /.-■. (partial) : Mab., Ann. So,-. Enl. Fran,-,' p. 2'.tOCl«7;i) (Madag.) ; Waterh., 

 Aid liknt. Im. ii. t. 141. f. 3 ((J) (1884) ; Saalm., Lcp. .Mmlag. p. 183. n. iiO'J (1834) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Lep. Uet. i. p. 679. n. 7 (1892). 



Ncphile (!) charuha, Butler, Cht. Enl. ii. p. 393 (1879) (Madag,). 



Xephelc morphws, Saalmiiller, /.,-. p. 133. n. 310 (1884). 



S ?. Like comma, but the white sjwt anteriorly thinner and posteriorly rather 

 more dilated distad (PI. LXIV. f. 14). 



The reddish tint of Kirby's type is due to discoloration ; ( 'ontinental comma as 

 well as other Sephele assnme the same tint. 



llah. Madagascar. 



In the Triug Museum : — 



00 d'c?, 40 ? ? of f. (Icvasa from: Sierra Leone : Ogrugu, Niger; Beuguella, i. 

 (I'enrice) ; Cape Colony; Natal; Nyassaland : Kiloa ; Dar-es-Salaam ; Kiknyu 

 Escarpment, Brit. E. Afr. (Doherty) ; Madagascar. 



'Z\ $ $,\\ ? ? off. comma from : Sierra Leone : Gold Coast : Ogi-ugu, Niger; 

 Benguella, !. (Peurice) ; Natal ; Zomba, Likoma, and Bandawe, Nyassaland ; 

 Kiknyu Escarpment, Brit. E. Afr. (Doherty) ; Masindi, Uganda, i. (Ansorge). 



1 c?, 1 ¥ off. loc. cliaroha from : Madagascar. 



4T.S. Nephele funebris. 



Sjiliiiu funebris Fabricius, Enf. Si/sl. iii. 1. p. 371. n. 47 (1893) (Guinea) ; Auriv., Eiit. T/ihlcr. 



xvi'ii. p. 152. n. 81 (1897). 

 *XiiniVm virideurn^ Walker, LiM Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 1'.I2. n. 1 (185li) (partim ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 *.\,phrlr hifernaUs Kirby, Tram. But. Soc. Loud. p. 239. 244 (1877) (Ashanti ;— Mus. Dublin) ; 



Waterh., Aid Ideut. his. ii. t. 141. f. 4 (1884) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Met. i. p. 680. n. 13 (1892) ; 



Auriv., Eld. Tidskr. xiii. p. 183. u. 234 (1892) (Kamerun). 

 Xtphele peneiis, Karsch, Eid. Nachr. xvii. p. 297. n. 15 (1891) (Cameroous). 



No more appropriate name, we think, could be found for this insect than 

 iii/ernalis, considering the time we spent over it without coming to a very satisfac- 

 tory result; however, the name must sink as synonym oi funebris. The type of 

 funebris is in Coi)enhagen. Dr. Meinert has kindly sent us a photograph of it, 

 which shows it to be the same as in/ernali.s. The species occurs in West and 

 East Africa in a form without conspicuous white stigma, and also in a form 

 with white spots. On the Ujiper Cougo another dichromatic insect is found 

 which seems to intergraduate with ordinary funebris, though it has, in the 

 spotted form, an entirely diflerent stigma. We treat this Cougo insect as a 

 subspecies of funebris ; but we must express our doubt of the two being 

 specifically the same. 



$ ? . Black lateral patches of abdomen large, pro.^imal ones rectangular, not 

 narrowed above as in bipavtita ; underside of palpus scaled white and brown, 

 contrasting with the uniformly clayish buff breast and underside of abdomeu. 



Combs well developed. Forewing similar in shape to that of comma ; greenish 



above in fresh specimens ; a faint shadowy band from middle of costa to outer 

 margin just before angle. 



Uab. Aethiopian Region, exclusive of ihe Malagassic Subregion. 



a. N. funebris funeljvis. 



Spliiiu funebris Fabricius, /.<•. 

 *Xunilia virc.fi-i'ns Walker, Lc. (Natal). 

 *Xephele infernali" Kirby, I.e. 



