( 5fi3 ) 

 4N(5. Nephele rosae. 



'.Xr/ilteh' rusae Butler, Prur. Zunl. Sor. Loml. p. U. n. 30 (187.'>) (Boma ;— Mus. Brit.) ; id., Ti-an.-:. 

 Zuol. Sor. Loiid.ix. p. i;-.'2. n. 4. t. 94. f. 3 (1877) ; Dew., .Uilt/i. Munch. Eiil. \\;: iii. p. ■>:, 

 (1879) (Chinchoxo) : Druoe, in Moloney, HV.v? Afr. Forestry p. 493. n. IC (IKK7) : Kirby, 

 Cat. Lrp. Met. i. p. 079. n. 4 (1892) (Boma). 



(? ? . Similar to oeno})ion. Pale discal baud of forewing Inoad, its white 

 liroxiiual bonler-liue only 4 mm. tVom lower angle of cell at R' ; the siibbasal band 

 uiit edged with white, nor is the fringe of the hinder margin white between subbasal 

 and discal bands ; a thin, longitudinal, comma-shaped stigma, which is sometimes 

 reduced to a dot, seldom absent (from our only East African individual). Underside 

 of body paler than in oeiwpion ; first segment of palpus with white scales. 



Ilah. Africa ; apparently rarer in the east than in the west of the ('ontinent. 



No representative known from Madagascar and neighbouring islands. 



In the Tring Museum 10 c?c?, 9 ?? from: .Sierra Leone; Old Calabar; 

 Bojioto and Yakusu, Congo, vii. (K. .Smith) ; Nguelo, Germ. E. Africa. 



487. Nephele rectangulata. 



*Xcpliele rcclcnujidala Rothschild, Irh vii. p. 301). n. 12 (18'.I4) (Sierra Leone ; — coll. Staudinger) : 

 id., Nov. Z(».i.. ii. t. 9. f. 7 (c?) (1896). 



(??. Comb of short terminal spur of hindtibia not heavy. The species is 

 easily recognised Ijy tlie angle of about UO formed at hinder angle of forewing by 

 two white lines, one submarginal, slightly curved, ending at tip of wing, the other 

 running straiglit across the wing to costal margin, entering tlie cell at lower angle. 

 The hindwiug and under surface are brighter tawny in our fresh ? than in tlie cf 

 figured ; the submarginal line is too obviously dentate in the figure. 



Huh. Sierra Leone. 



In the Tring Museum 1 c?, 1 ? friim Sierra Leoue. 



488. Nephele aequivalens. 



*riir/ii/liii (idiiiirdhns Walker, Lint Lep. Lis. B. M. viii. p. 191. n. ,") (I8.5ij) (Siovra Leone ;— Mus. 



Brit.). 

 *Zimili(i ■.(■/ill Boisduval, /./■. p. 148. n. Uj (1H7.">) (= deiiiiiralru-t ? : Sierra Leone ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 X,/,l,r!, ,„,i„;r„h;is, Butler, Tr,i„s. Znol. S„r. Land. i.x. p. (122. n. 1 (1877) (Sierra Leone) ; Druce, ia 



Moloney, WtsI Afr. Fun-slrij p. 493. n. 15 (1887) ; Moschl., Ahh. Senk. Xalnrf. (ies. xv. p. 71. 



n. im (1890) (Accra) ; Kirby, Cat. Lqi. lid. i. p. 079. n. 1 (1892) (Sierra Leone) ; Schaus ^.^i 



Clem., Sierra Leone Lrp. p. 19 (1893). 



c? ? . The largest species of the genus. Combs of spurs and of tarsi strongly 

 develojied. Hindtarsus exactly twice the length of the tiliia, first segment as long 

 as tiie four others together. Abdomen without distinct black side-](atches. Fore- 

 wing with a black band from costal margin near end of cell to end of M- ; postdisco- 

 Mibniai-giiuil line almost evenly curved from tip of wing to tij) of i\I- ; one discal 

 line, beginning at costal margin midway between obli(|ue band and apex of wing. 



6. Tenth sternite rather shorter than in the other species, and the har]ie more 

 abiniitly hooked. 



Hal/. Contiiuntal Tropical Africa: Sierra Leone to the Congo and East Africa. 



In the Tring Jlnseuna 7 6 6, 'o ¥ ? from : Sierra Leone ; Gold Coast ; (.tgrugii, 

 Niger ; Dar-es-Salaam. 



