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Middle and Hind Legs with tlie joints of dissimilar length. The femur of the middle leg being one tliird longer 

 than the tibia, and bent. Tibia with a little brush of very short hairs near the base in the male; hind tibia rather 

 longer than the femur. Tibial spurs very slender. Tibias and tarsi armed with very fine short spines. 

 Ungues much curved. Outer lacinia of the paronychia nearly as long as the claws. 

 Abdomen rather slender. 



Transformations unknown. 



The insects composing this genus are natives of Africa and the adjacent islands, but they are very rare in collections; of moderate 

 size, and dull, or but slightly brilliant, in their colours. The type of the genus is the Madagascar A. Raljcna, with which A. Cupavia 

 tolerably well agrees. These have a pale oblique bar, or a row of spots across the fore wings from the middle of the fore margin towards 

 the anal angle, and some additional spots near the apex of the fore wings ; but other species which have been added to the genus difter 

 from the preceding, not only in having the discoidal cell of all the wings closed, but also in the style of their colouring : thus A. 

 Meleagris is of a greyish dun colour above, marked with a great number of small white dots, each with a black ring ; whilst the males 

 of A. Veronica are dark blue on the upper surface, with darker markings, and the females are dull red-brown, with a white oblique 

 bar. A. Lysandra is very similar to the female of Veronica on the upper side, but the under side is quite different. I have added 

 Afer to the genus on account of its resemblance to the male of Veronica ; but it is brilliantly glossed with purple, the hind wings are 

 truncated near the anal angle, the second branch of the subcostal vein arises beyond the extremity of the discoidal cell, and the cell of 

 the hind wing is open, as in Kabena. Smeathman informs us that, notwithstanding its brilliant colours, this species frequents thick 

 dark places in the woods of Tropical Africa. 



ATERICA. 



Division *. Hind jrinijs with the discoidal cell open. 



Subdivision a. Second branch of the subcostal vein arising before the 

 extremity of the discoidal cell. 



1. Atkr. Rabena. 



Aterica Rabena Boisduval, Faiine Entomol. dc Madag. t. 8. 



f. 2. 

 Catonephele Rabana Hiihner, Samml. exot. Schm. Band iii. 



pi. -. 

 Aterica Rabena? E.Doubl. List Lc/i. Brit. Mus. p. 101.; 



Doubl. Westw. Sj Hewitson, Gen. Ditirn. Lep. pi. 43. f. 



3. 

 Tintingue, Taraatave, Madagascar, AVestern Africa. B. M. 



2. Ateb. Cupavia. 



Papilio Cupavia Cramer, t. 1<)3. f. E. F.; Fabricius, Ent. 



Syst. III. pt. 1. p. 152. n. 4(5?. 

 Nyraphalis Cup. Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 382. n. 105. 

 Aterica Cupavia Boisduval 3IS.; Douh/. List Lep. Brit. 



Mus. p. 101. 

 Catonephele Cupavia Hilbner, Verz. bctt. Schm. p. 40. n. 



351. 

 Sierra Leone, Ashanti. B. M. 



Subdivision b. Second branch of the subcostal vein arising beyond the 

 extremity of the discoidal cell. 



S. Ater. Afer. 



Papilio Afer Driiry, Il/ustr. iii. pi. 36. f. 1, 2.; Stall, 



Suppl Cram. t. 27. f. 3, 3 B. 

 Papilio .^thiopa Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 136. 



n. 420.; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 385. n. II9. (Nym- 



phalis iEth.) 

 Aterica Afer E. Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. App. p. 



27. 

 Evena Afra Boisduval MS. 



laera Afra Hilbner, Verz. belt. Schm. p. 38. n. 332. 

 Tropical Western Africa. B. M. 



Di' 



Hind wings with the discoidal cell closed. 



6. 



Ateb. Meleagris. 



Papilio Meleagris Cramer, pi. 66. f. A.B.; Drury, III. iii. 



pi. 27. f. 3, 4.; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. in. pt. 1. p. 128. 



n. 393.; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 387. n. 130. (Nym- 



phalis M.); E. Doubl. List Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 102. 



(Aterica ? M.) 

 Hamanumida Jleleagris Hiihner, Ferz. hek. Schm. p. 18. 



n. 104. 

 Var. Papilio Melantha Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 



128. n. 394.; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 388. n. 132. 

 Sierra Leone, Ashanti. B. M. 



Ater. Lysandra. 



Papilio Lysandra Stall, Suppl. Cram. pi. 29. f. 3, 3 C; 



Godart, Enc. M. ix. pi. 387. n. 125. 

 Syniphaedra Lys. Hiihner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. 40. n. 348. 

 Sierra Leone. B. M. 



Ater. Veronica. 



Papilio Veronica Cramer, pi. 325. f. CD.; Fabricius, Ent. 

 Syst. III. pt. 1. p. 151. n. 164.; Jones, Icon. v. t. 36. 

 f. 2. 

 Nymphalis Ver. Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 385. n. 118. 

 Aterica \'er. E. Doubl. List Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 101. 

 $ Papilio Gnidia Fabricius, Ent. Syst. in. pt. 1. p. 137. n. 

 422.; Jones, Icon. v. t. 37. f. 2.; Donovan, Ins. India, 

 pi. 32. f. 2. 

 Nymphalis Gnidia Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 386. n. 123. ■ 

 Hamanumida Veronica Hilbner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. 18. n. 

 103. 

 Sierra Leone, Ashanti. B. M. 



Genus LXI. HARMA. 



Harma, Eupithes, and Adolias p. E. Doubleday. 

 Cymotiioe and Apatura p. Hiilm. 

 Nymphalis p. God'. 



Body robust ; wings large, with the apical margin of the fore ones generally eraarginate, all marked beneath in the 

 discoidal cell with slender black characters, and with one or more rows of pointed lunules near the outer 



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