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(fc) Without a Avhitish or partially transparent subapical jiatcli 



doubledayi sykesi (171) 



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



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



Ground-colour orange red . dotibledayi doubledayi (171) 



{I) G^-ound -colour chocolate hroivn . doubledayi arabica (172) 



Ground-colourdullreddishto<jrey doubledayi doubledayi (171) 



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



spots, or at most with a faint indication of such spots . (71) 



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. regcdis (part) (169) 



Ground-colour of f.-w. not red (0) 



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



small ..... equatorialis anaemia, (111) 



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



Spots large axina (part) (180) 



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



small ..... equatorialis anaemia (177) 



F.-tv. (jenerally fully scaled. Ground-colour pinkish ochreous to 



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



axina (180) 

 [I can find no perfectly constant character to distinguisJt these two 

 $ $ , b^lt in axina the inner edge of h.-w. marginal border is 

 almost cdtcays more sharply defined than in equatorialis 

 equatorialis.] 

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

 Ground-colour red. Expanse about 60 mm. 



braesia f. regcdis (part) (169) 

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

 about 50 mm. or less .... a«na (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 



Ma (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. discal spots close to, or confluent with end of cell . • ( 1 ) 

 F.-w. discal spots smcdler and well removed from end of cell (3) 



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

 F.-w. spots beyond cell contiguous ..... (2) 



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

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



(3) F.-u: apical black narrow ....... (4) 



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



