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that sex is contained in the couple of Hnes printed by AuriviUius, it 

 seems to me fitting that I should give a figure of the insect which I have 

 determined to be the female of this species. The female assigned to C. 

 diphyia by Karsch is unmistakably the female of C. theodosia, as has 

 already been jwinted out by AuriviUius. The species is closely related 

 to C.fumana (Westwood). It differs in the male sex in having the outer 

 third of the fore wing on the upper side tinged with ochreous (in C. 

 futnana the apical third is creamy white) and in having the outline of the 

 dark inner basal area of the fore wing straight or concave costad, while 

 in C. fumana this area is strongly convex on the margin toward the 

 costa. 



(269) 8. Cymothoe herminia Grose-Smith 



Plate VIII: Figure 1, cf ; Figure 4, 9 

 Cymothoe herminia Grose-Smith, 1887, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XIX, p. 63. 

 AuRiviLLixJS, 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 149, PI. xxxva, cf . 



There are eighteen males of this species, all taken at Medje in July 

 and August. With these I associate a female, which I believe to be that 

 sex of the species, and which I cause to be figured, as no description or 

 figure of the female has heretofore been published. 



(270) 8a. Cymothoe herminia poensis, new variety 



Plate VIII, Figure 2, <f 

 All the specimens of C. herminia taken by the American Museum 

 Congo Expedition conform to the figures and descriptions of this species, 

 which have been published by Grose-Smith and by AuriviUius, and are 

 typical, having the dark band which outwardly defines the pale middle 

 band of the primaries incomplete at its upper extremity, thus leaving the 

 costal margin broadly of the same color as the middle of the wing, except 

 at the tip, on which the outer marginal ])order is continued. There is, 

 however, in my possession a male specimen of this species which was 

 taken on Fernando Po for me by the late Dr. A. C. Good, in which the 

 black band above mentioned extends all the way to the costa, and in 

 which the dark submarginal markings are heavier than in the specimens 

 from the Congo u|X)n which I am reporting. To this varietal (insular) 

 form I propose to give the name poensis, and take the opportunity to 

 figure it. Type in Holland Collection, Carnegie Museum. 



