296 Mr, H. Eltringham's MonograjjJi of the 



explanation of Boisduval's plates the locality is vaguely given 

 as " Guinea," and there appears to be no reference to it in the 

 text. Godart gives Angola as the locality of his A. servona. 

 The type of this is also a $ . Now I am unable to say whether 

 the $ $ of the Fernando Po form have transparent or yellow 

 spots on the f.-w., as I have seen no $ examples from that 

 locality. I cannot therefore definitely connect the Fernando 

 Po specimens with the types of either lycoides or servona. The 

 fact that yellow spotted ^ ^ occur in the Grose-Smith collec- 

 tion labelled "Angola" would support the conclusion that they 

 were the (^ (^ of Godart's servona. If this were established 

 our synonymy would have to be slightly altered. Servona 

 would still remain the name of the species, but it would refer 

 to the yellow spotted form, and the f^ (dejana) and 9 {lycoides} 

 would form a subspecies. I have however reason to suppose 

 that the labels referred to are not sufficiently reliable, and until 

 further material is available for the study of these forms, I 

 must regard sermna and lycoides as synonyms, giving a dis- 

 tinctive name to the distinctly yellow spotted form, of which I 

 have at present seen only male examples. 

 A. servona tenebrosa, subsp. n. 



This form, of which I have only seen the ^^ , differs from 

 other forms in the following particulars : — The ground-colour 

 is intensely black. There are no clear spots in f.-w. lb, and 3. 

 The remaining clear spots are reduced in size and quite ap- 

 preciably scaled with white. The h.-w. pale yellow patch is 

 much reduced, only just extending into area 7, and partially 

 into lb. On the underside those areas which in the typical 

 form are pale yellow are here of a very dark red brown. It 

 occurs on Kwidgwi Island, L. Kivu. 

 A. servona f. reversa. 



This form differs constantly from servona servona solely in 

 the fact that the tarsal claws of the male are unequal. It 

 should however be noted that in all the eight examples known 

 to me the transparent spot in f.-w. area 3 is larger and better 

 defined than in the majority of examples of sercona servona. 

 Also there is a general tendency for the nervule ends on the 

 underside to be more heavily scaled with black brown. In one 

 example this scaling is developed to such an extent that the 

 outer half of the wing is almost completely black, an extreme 

 condition which I have not observed in the type form. 



A. servona occurs from Fernando Po to Angola and 

 across the Congo State to Entebbe, thence northwards 



