262 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



Unyoro) ; British E. Africa (Nandi, Nairobi) ; German E. 

 Africa (Bukoba, Ukerewe I.). 



A. perenna thesprio, subsp. 



Oberthur, Etud. d'Ent., 17, p. 21, pi. 3, f. 34 (1893) ; Auri- 

 villius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 93 (1898); Sjostedt's E.xp., p. 3 (1910). 



Katanga; Nyassaland; German E. Africa; British E. 



Africa. 

 A. 2)e>'enna haffana, subsp. 



Rothschild, Novit. Zool., 9, p. 595. 



Abyssinia (Dalba, Uma R., Anderatscha). 



A. perenna perenna. PI. VI, f. 6 (larva). 



$. Expanse 30-74 mm. F.-w. sepia black rather more 

 thinly scaled in median and subapical area. Hind margin 

 markedly concave. An obsolescent dark spot in cell above 

 origin of 2. A double spot on end of cell, and just beyond 

 this an oblique discal band of four spots in 6, 5, 4, and 3. 

 A large spot in 2 touching median and nervule 2. Below this 

 in lb a subcrescentic spot. A black longitudinal streak in 

 area lb from base extending about half the length of this area. 

 A red patch in la, lb, and 2 extending from near hind angle 

 nearly to nervule 3, widest in lb. A faint reddish mark 

 at discal end of cell. Two small subraarginal red spots in area 

 lb. H.-w. bright red with sepia black basal suffusion extend- 

 ing nearly to end of cell. A black hind-marginal border about 

 2 mm. wide, having a sinuous inner outline and bearing seven 

 internervular spots, that in Ic doubled. Black discal and basal 

 spots as on underside. 



Underside f.-w. Cell and base of lb almost devoid of scales. 

 Black spots as on upperside. Space between end of cell and 

 discal spots, and for some distance beyond latter, whitish. Costa 

 powdered with brownish scales. Apex and hind margin rusty 

 brown with black nervules and rays. Red patches as on upper- 

 side but paler and duller. A small black basal sj)ot on costa. 



H.-w. pink, reddish at base, the cell and basal half of area 

 7 greenish grey. Marginal band dark brown with orange 

 f)chreous spots. Black basal and discal s2)ots as follows : — 

 A discal row of seven in 7, 6, 5, 4, 2, Ic and lb (no spot in 3) a 

 spot on the middle discocellular, a small spot in 8 near precostal, 

 a subbasal spot in 7, one subbasal and one median in cell, and one 

 in Ic, lb, and la. These spots vary in size and may be small 

 and well separated, or large and confluent. Head black, thorax 

 black with a few pale spots. Basal half of abdomen black with 

 orange ochreous spots, I'emainder orange ochreous. Claws equal. 



