80 Mr. H. Eltriugliam's Monor/raplt of the 



§ . Expanse 60-75 mm. F.-w. as in ^ but red replaced by 

 rusty yellow varying to brownish cream colour, and spots faint 

 or absent. H.-w. colour modified in the same way. Spots often 

 less distinct than in the ^ . Underside dusky white, marginal 

 spots yellow, edged with whitish. 

 A. admatha f. leucographa. 



This form differs from the above in having a white jjatch 

 at anal angle of h.-w. This patch extends from the discal 

 spots in lb, Ic, and 2 to the black border, with sometimes a 

 few white scales in area 3. On the upperside of h.-w. the fust 

 three or four discal spots may be faint or absent. The 9 is a 

 little larger, less brightly coloured, and has the white on h.-w. 

 more sufiused. I have before me a small series of examples from 

 Entebbe showing a beautiful gradation in the extent of the white, 

 one specimen having only a faint white scaling near the anal angle. 

 Though A. admatha is a somewhat variable species 

 having a wide range, I have been unable to assign any of 

 the variations to definite localities. Trirnen states (/. c.) 

 that his southern examples differ from typical W. African 

 specimens in having less rounded spots in the h.-w., and 

 also that the subbasal spot in the cell is wanting, also that 

 in the f.-\v. the red area is more extended and the discal 

 spots -wanting in the $ but present in the ^. A pair before 

 me from Zukdand, show a tendency to contluence in the 

 h.-w. spots especiall}^ in the $, but the spots in h.-w. are 

 quite as rounded as in other examples, the second cell spot 

 is not absent, the f.-w. red is of the usual extent and tlie 

 f.-w. discal spots are present in the :^ and wanting in the ^. 

 We must conclude therefore that these features are in- 

 constant. The form leiicofjrapha is characteristic of the 

 central area of the species' range. It has been taken in 

 the N3'am Nyam country north of the Ubangi River, 

 at Sassa in the extreme North of the Congo State, and 

 at Kitala in Uganda. In Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 977, 1899, 

 Butler mentions it as having been taken in the Nandi 

 District by Ca]3tain Hobart, who found it quite common 

 there. Examples occur sporadically in other parts of the 

 species' range. The typical form with slight variation 

 occurs from Ashanti to the Congo State, and southwards 

 to Natal. 



A. admatha is recorded by C. J. M. Gordon in Old 

 Calabar (/. c.) as being untouched after death by ants 

 which had eaten all the other specimens in a box except 

 A. ncolmlc. 



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