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lished opinions of some of his friends, among them Dr. Aurivilhus, who y 

 has given us in Seitz, 'Gross-Schmetterhnge', Vol. XIII, the latest revi- 

 sion of the genus. These things will be touched upon in what I shall 

 have to say in regard to the several species in the following pages. 



(262) 1. Cymothoe theobene (Doubleday and Hewitson) 



Harma theobene Doubleday and Hewitson, 1850, Gen. Diurn. Lep., II, PI. xl, fig. 3. 

 Cymothoe theobene Aurivillius, 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 144, PI. xxxivd. 



There are one hundred males and twenty-four females of this species 

 in the collection. Most of them were taken at Medje, a few in April, 

 the rest from June to October. A number are from Niangara, captured 

 in November, and there are other individuals labelled as coming from 

 Ngayu, Gamangui, and Munie Katoto. 



This is one of the commonest species of the genus, and almost 

 everj^ collection from tropical Africa contains at least a few examples. 

 There is considerable variation in the size and marking of individuals, 

 especially in the case of the females. I find, however, no female as large 

 and as darkly colored as some I have from the Ogove River, the outer 

 third of the wings in these specimens from the Congo being paler and 

 the dark spots smaller in size than is the case with the material from 

 nearer the western coast. There are several male specimens from 

 Niangara and one from Medje which come near to the form named C. 

 hlassi by Weymer in which the transverse light band on the primaries 

 of the males is not sharply defined outwardly near the costa but fades 

 insensibly into the general ground-color. The form is scarcely worthy of 

 a varietal name, though it can easily be discriminated and, in fact, is the • 

 prevalent form on the eastern coast, whence I received a series some 

 years ago, which were collected for me by the late William Doherty on 

 the hills back of Mombasa. 



(263) 2. Cymothoe reinholdi (Ploetz) 

 Harma reinholdi Plcetz, 1880, Stett. Ent. Zeit., XLI, p. 194 ( cf ). 



Cymothoe reinholdii Aurivillius, 1894, Ent. Tidskr., XV, p. 305 (9); 1898, Rhop. 

 ^thiop., p. 211, PI. IV, figs. 6, 7 (cf and ? ). 



There are three males and one female, all taken at Medje, a pair 

 in July and two males in August. 



(264) 3. Cymothoe theodosia Staudinger 



Cymothoe theodosia Siaudingfr, 18S9, Stett. Ent. Zeit., L, p. 416. Aurivillius, 

 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 146, PI. xxxvia, 9 . 



Of this beautiful insect, stated by Staudinger to be a local race of 

 C. heckeri Herrich-Schseffer, there are thirtv-two males and eleven fe- 



