160 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



H.-w. with a stronger suffusion not reaching beyond the middle 

 of cell. The spots well rounded and fairly large, arranged as in 

 caldarena, but larger and extended commensurately with the 

 form of the wings. 



Underside. Spots as above. The very large bluish white 

 spots of the h.-w. margin enclosed by quite similar arched 

 lines, but these arclies are not thicker in the middle as in cal- 

 darena, aglaonice, etc. Basal part of h.-w. marked with brick 

 red. A whitish mark extending from costa through the middle 

 of the cell to lb, and surrounding the four large subbasal spots. 

 The .«pot in Ic is also surrounded with white. Abdomen not so 

 black as in rhodetsiana and the pale marks yellowish. Claws 

 unequal. 



$. Ground-colour dark smoky grey. The space between the 

 apical black and the discal spots white, trapezoidal, the posterior 

 rather suffused portion reaching nervule 3. The yellowish grey- 

 green ground-colour of the underside passes into light chocolate 

 brown at a point two-thirds of the length of the wing from the 

 base. In areas 6 and 10 there are two small extra spots of the 

 discal row. 



The locality given for Wichgraf's types is Rhodesia. A 

 male example in the Oxford collection was taken by 

 Neave in the Lualaba Valley (Congo State). What 

 appears to be a dry-season female of the same species was 

 taken by the same collector in N.E. Rhodesia in the 

 Kalungwisi Valley. This specimen is the same colour as 

 the ^. The spots are nearly all very indistinct, most of 

 them only showing through from beneath. On the under- 

 side the f.-w. spots are very small, but those on the h.-w. 

 are of normal size. 



One feature which appears to distinguish this form from 

 ■caldarena is not insisted upon by Wichgiaf The first 

 three h.-w. discal spots in 7, 6, and 5 are large, and lie in a 

 nearly straight line which if produced would meet the hind 

 margin at end of nervule 5. In caldarena the third of 

 these spots is either directly underneath the second, or 

 only very slightly more distally placed. Moreover the 

 discal spots in f-w. appear to be nearer the end of cell than 

 in caldarena. In spite of these differences the similarit}^ 

 of structure of the male armature in this form and in 

 caldarena makes me incline to the belief that it is only a 

 form of the latter species, but a final conclusion can 

 scarcely be attained with the present paucity of material. 



