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{k) Without a whitish or partially transparent subapical patch 



douhledayi sykesi (171) 



With such whitish or partly transparent patch . . . (l) 



(I) Ground-colour dark brick-red . . douhledayi arabica (172) 



Ground-colour orange red . douhledayi douhledayi (171) 



(l) Ground-colonr chocolate brown . douhledayi arabica (172) 



Ground-colourdidlreddishtogrey douhledayi douhledayi (171) 



(m) H.-w. marginal border above, black, well defined, and without 



spots, or at most with a faint indication of such spots . (n) 



H.-w. marginal border above, formed of delicate black arches not 



always complete at inner edge ..... (p) 



(n) Ground-colour of f.-w. red . braesia f. regalis {\)a.vt) (169) 



Ground-colour of f.-w. not red ...... (o) 



(o) F.-w. very thinly scaled. Ground-colour faintly ochreous. Spots 

 small ..... equator ialis ana eynia {111) 



F.-w. generally fully scaled. Ground-colour pinkish-ochreous. 

 Spots large axiua (part) (180) 



(0) F.-w. very thinly scaled. Ground-colour faintly ochreous. SjJots 



small ..... equatorialis anaemia (177) 



F.-ro. fjenerally fully sc(ded. Ground-colour 2nnkish ochreous to 



grey. Spots srncdl or large . equatorialis equatorialis (177) 



axina (180) 

 [J can find no perfectly constant character to distinguish these two 

 $ 5 , hub in axina the inner edge of h.-w. Tnarginal border is 

 almost always more sharply defi,ned than in equatorialis 

 equatorialis.] 

 (?i) A well-marked grey submarginal band in f.-w. 5, 4, and 3. 

 Ground-colour red. Expanse about 60 mm. 



braesia f. regalis (part) (1()0) 

 Without such grey band. Ground-colour not red. Expanse 

 about 50 mm. or less .... oxtna (part) (180) 



(p) Line of discal subapical spots in f.-w. 4, 5, and 6 makes, out- 

 wardly, an acute angle with costa. Wings thickly scaled 



ella (179) 

 Line of discal subapical spots in f.-w. 4, 5, and 6 makes, out- 

 wardly, a right or obtuse angle with costa. Wings very thinly 

 scaled ..... equatorialis equatorialis (177) 

 {q) F.-w. disced spots close to, or confluent with end of cell . ■ (1) 

 F.-w. discal spots smaller and well remo fed from end of cell (3) 



(1 ) F.-w. spots beyond end of cell not contiguous intermedia {part) (159) 

 F.-io. spots beyond cell contiguous . . . . • (2) 



(2) F.-iv. subapical patch white mima(167) 



F.-w. subapical patch pale but not white . rhodesiana (166) 



(3) F.-iv. apiccd black narrow ....... (4) 



F.-iv. apical black broad ....... (5) 



