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contrasts strongly, more particularly in the male, with the 
yellow of the hind-wing. ‘Typical females have the hind- 
wing yellow basal suffusion largely replaced by the same 
red, but seldom completely so, The margial markings 
are rarely very heavy. 
45 3g, 24 99 in B.M. from Kikuyu (typical Jf and 29), 
Nyeri, Sotik, 8.E. slopes of Mt. Kenia, 8. Kavirondo, Nandi 
Plateau, 8. slope. of Mt. Elgon, Yala R., Njoro, Eastern 
Mbale, Mt. Kokanjero, Taveta, Old Moschi, ete. 
On Mt. Kenia the normal male seems to be almost entirely 
replaced by 
236 Mr. N. P ritey’s Notes on 
M. r. kikuyuensis, 3-form kenia, f£. nov. 
in which the ground-colour of both wings above is a delicate 
lemon-yellow instead of being white, and a trace of red is 
present in the yellow hind-wing basal patch. In all other 
respects it resembles typical males of kikuyuensis. 
B.M. Type No. Rh. 052,’ 3, S.E. slopes of Mt. Kenia, 
6000-7000 ft., 4 11. 1911 (S. A. Neave). In the B.M. there 
are in addition eight other $¢ taken with the type, and one 
¢§ from Godeb River, Abyssinia, 25 iv. 1902 (Wegen). 
M. r. kikuyuensis, Q-form kaffana, f. nov. (Plate V, 
fig. 3). 
In this form of the female the wings are semi-transparent, 
the basal suffusions of both wings are very faint on the 
upper surface, though present; almost absent on hind-wing, 
present and practically normal on fore-wing, below. 
B.M. Type No. Rh. 053, 9, Inderatcha Forest, at Bonga, 
Kafla, Abyssinia, 6050 ft., 4 vi. 1905 (Ph. Zaphiro) ; another 
2, Kafia, Abyssinia, 1909 (C. W. Gwynn). 
This form of the female is very close to some female 
examples of M. erlangert Pagenstecher, from Abyssinia. 
So close in fact as to lead one to think that erlangeri itself 
may be only an extreme yellow race of riippellit. 
(c) M. riippellit rhodesiana, subsp. nov. 
(Plate V, fig. 1 g, 2 2.) 
6. With fore-wing basal suffusion much paler orange—no sug- 
gestion of red. Marginal markings heavier than in preceding 
subspecies. 
9. Basal suffusion of all wings the same colour, dull, pale orange, 
much duller than in 3, extending beyond cell in both wings, tingeing . 
the whole of interspaces la, 1b, 2 and parts of the others, also form- 
