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prolonged), is caused by absence of this latter feature in 

 pseiidophlaeas. The second tail is also generally wanting in 

 ethiopica, although a vestige exists in some few individuals, 

 as also in a few ahhoti. In phlaeas this tail is an extremely 

 variable feature, which, strangely enough, is especially 

 strongly developed in many examples from localities near 

 Africa, viz. Asia Minor and Cyprus. The prolongation of 

 the anal angle of the hind-wing, described by Lucas, also 

 occurs, although to a less extent, in ethiGpica and ahhoti. 



The Hind-wing Upper Surface. — The scalloping of the 

 inner border of the marginal band, due to the prolongation 

 of the red inwards along the veins, is more strongly marked 

 in ethiopica, although in a single example from Kigezi the 

 border is as plain as in any pseudophlaeas . 



The coppery lustre of the black surface within the band is, 

 on the average, more strongly developed in pseudophlaeas 

 which to this extent approaches ahhoti more nearly than 

 ethiopica. 



The relative degree of development of the well-known 

 inter-nervular blue spots, along the inner border of the 

 marginal band, is perhaps the most interesting difierence 

 between ethiopica and pseudophlaeas. At first sight, this 

 feature seemed to be entirely wanting from the Abyssinian 

 series, but careful examination with a lens showed that the 

 largest spot was represented by 6 or 7 scales in one male, by 

 3 or 4 in a second, and the only spot by a single scale in a 

 third. No trace was found in the Paris specimens nor in 

 any Abyssinian female. 



Ethiopica, on the contrary, always possessed the feature, 

 generally strongly developed. The single male, formerly 

 supposed to be without it (Proc, 1921, p. Ixxxii), was found 

 to possess 5 blue scales in one space on the right side. In 

 the southern examples from the Hill Museum this feature 

 was on the whole more strongly developed than in those 

 from S.W. Uganda, although strongest of all in one of Dr. 

 Carpenter's males from Kigezi. 



A study of phlaeas would probably show that this character 

 also varies in development in different parts of the Northern 

 Belt. 



