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(3) 2. Danais petiverana Doubleday and Hewitson 



Danais petiverana Doubleday and Hewitson, 1857, Gen. Diurn. Lep., I, p. 93, PI. 



XII, fig. 1. 

 Danaida petiverana, Aurivillius, 1911, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 72, PI. xxiixa. 



This is the African form of D. limniace (Cramer). The collection 

 contains thirty-four males, taken mostly at Medje in June, July, and 

 August, though there are a number captured at Niangara in November, 

 and several from other localities: Bafwasende, Bafwaboli, Risimu, 

 Faradje. 



Amauris Hiibner 



(4) 1. Amauris niavius (Linnaeus) 



Papilio niavius Linn^us, 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th Ed., p. 470. 



Amauris niavius Aurivillius, 1911, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 74, PI. xxiiirZ. 



There are twenty-five specimens, of which three (two of them not 

 expanded) are females. The most of them were taken at Medje from 

 July to September, though a few are labelled as taken at Niangara in 

 November. 



(5) 2. Amauris damocles (Palisot de Beauvois) 



Papilio damocles Palisot de Beauvois, 1805-1821, Ins. Rec. en Afrique et Am^rique, 



Lep., p. 239, PI. VI, figs. 3a, 3b. 

 Amauris damocles Aurivillius, 1911, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 74. 



This common species is represented in the collection by twenty- 

 eight males and two females. A few are labelled as having been cap- 

 tured at Gamangui in February, most of them were taken at Medje 

 about the middle of the year, and a few were captured at Niangara in 

 November. 



(6) 3. Amauris psyttalea Ploetz 



Amauris psyttalea Plcet^, 1880, Stett. Ent. Zeit., XLI, p. 189. Aurivillius, 1911, 

 Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 74, PI. xxvo. 



This species is discriminated from the preceding by the fact that 

 the white basal area of the hind wing reaches the tip or goes a little 

 beyond the tip of the cell, while in A. damocles it does not, and by the 

 further fact that the outer angle of the hind wing is adorned on the 

 upper side by a continuous band of marginal spots. 



There are twenty-four males in the collection. They were taken 

 at various localities and at different dates from Julv to December. 



