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  . 
  AFRICAN 
  LYC.ENID.E. 
  

  

  IV.— 
  SPINDASIS 
  SUBAUEEUS. 
  Figs. 
  11, 
  12. 
  

  

  Aphnwus 
  Suhaurcus, 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  " 
  Novitates 
  Zoologicae," 
  Vol. 
  V., 
  

   p. 
  358. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  If 
  inches. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Uppeeside. 
  Eesembles 
  A. 
  Acainafi, 
  Khig, 
  but 
  is 
  much 
  paler 
  

   tawny, 
  witli 
  broader 
  dusky 
  bands. 
  On 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  the 
  band 
  crossing 
  the 
  

   end 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  obliquely 
  from 
  the 
  costal 
  margin 
  becomes 
  confluent 
  with 
  the 
  

   submarginal 
  band 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervules, 
  and 
  extends 
  in 
  a 
  

   broad 
  dusky 
  area 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  angle 
  and 
  outer 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  margin. 
  On 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  wings 
  the 
  dusky 
  bands 
  are 
  very 
  broad, 
  the 
  intervening 
  spaces 
  being 
  

   paler 
  dusky 
  ; 
  a 
  rather 
  broad 
  pale 
  tawny 
  submarginal 
  band 
  and 
  dusky 
  irregular 
  

   outer 
  margin. 
  

  

  Undeeside. 
  Very 
  pale 
  fulvous, 
  with 
  pale 
  golden 
  scales 
  and 
  lines 
  in 
  the 
  

   bands 
  and 
  spots, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  centred 
  with 
  the 
  ground-colour. 
  On 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  wings 
  the 
  oblique 
  baud 
  which 
  crosses 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  extends 
  

   uninterruptedly 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  the 
  

   band 
  from 
  the 
  costal 
  margin 
  near 
  the 
  apex 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  disc 
  is 
  situate 
  

   farther 
  apart 
  from 
  the 
  central 
  transverse 
  band 
  of 
  spots, 
  and 
  the 
  two 
  upper 
  

   subbasal 
  spots 
  are 
  quite 
  separate. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Lokoja, 
  River 
  Niger, 
  May, 
  189(5 
  (Dr. 
  Cook). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Eothsehiltl. 
  

  

  XVI.— 
  PSEUDEEESIA 
  SEMIEUFA. 
  Figs 
  13, 
  14. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  If 
  inches. 
  

  

  Uppeeside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  dark 
  brown, 
  posterior 
  wings 
  also 
  dark 
  brown, 
  

   with 
  a 
  large 
  orange 
  patch 
  which 
  extends 
  over 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  wings 
  from 
  

   the 
  base 
  and 
  costal 
  margin 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  l)ut 
  does 
  not 
  

   reach 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  Undeeside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  sordid 
  brown 
  with 
  a 
  sordid 
  orange 
  area 
  from 
  the 
  

   lower 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  wings 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  and 
  base. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  dull 
  

   pale 
  brown 
  with 
  an 
  orange 
  tinge, 
  seven 
  dull 
  brown 
  spots 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  three- 
  

   below 
  the 
  costal 
  nervure, 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  one 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  and 
  two 
  others 
  below 
  

   it 
  ; 
  two 
  dark 
  spots 
  between 
  the 
  submedian 
  nervules 
  and 
  an 
  indication 
  of 
  a 
  dark 
  

   outer 
  marginal 
  border. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Sierra 
  Leone. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild. 
  

  

  