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Londiani, and several localities near Nairobi. Comparison 
with H. phlaeas L., at once showed that Dr. Carpenter’s 
series was, as regards upper surface pattern, indistinguishable 
from this species. Even the minute blue spots which are such 
a well-known feature on the hind-wing of many examples of 
phlaeas were present in varying degrees of development on all 
the Uganda individuals except a single male. The red marginal 
band of the hind-wing was broader than in phlaeas generally, 
but a band as broad is present in many of the specimens 
from the Canaries, Morocco, Algeria, and Palestine, and in a 
single female in the British Museum, from Harrar, Abyssinia, 
near the British Somaliland border. It bears the date 
January 3, 1902. 
The under surface of all the Uganda specimens differs. 
from phlaeas of the Northern Belt, etc., in its warm reddish 
tint, like that of abboti, but darker. The internervular dark 
marks inside the red band of the hind-wing below are larger 
and less defined than in phlaeas, and they are in some indi- 
viduals prolonged inwards as wedge-shaped markings. 
Examples of the Uganda phlaeas and of abboti were sent 
to Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.R.S., who has kindly examined 
them and reports as follows :— 
“The appendages of Heodes phlaeas (Kigezi) and abboti 
(copper hind-wing: Kilimanjaro) seem to be quite identical ; 
they differ from normal Northern examples of phlaeas in 
being of rather smaller size. This is most noticeable in the 
aedoeagus, which is 2-0 to 2-1 mm. long in Northern phlaeas 
and 1-63 to 1:75 in the African forms. There is a good deal 
of variation in its length in Northern phlaeas, but it is never 
appreciably below 2-0 mm. ‘The length of the clasps is also 
less in the Africans, but the difference is not so great, inas- 
much as some Northern ones are as short as some African. 
The structure of both valves and aedoeagus seems to be identical 
in the two. The valves vary in both, in the precise outline 
and in the development of the spines on the ventral part of 
the distal margin. In both, at the dorsal end of the terminal 
(distal) margin, there is a division into two layers, one smooth, 
the other toothed. This is not easily seen except when the 
toothed layer (inner) happens, by some accident in mount- 
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