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I. Males. 



a. White median band of forewing below sharply 



limited distally by a brown-black band . \. P. puhlim. 

 This band not sharply limited distally . . b. 



b. White median band ot npperside of hindwing 



more or less shaded and margined with 

 blue, the bine scaling extending beyond 

 R2 ....... . c. 



White band of hindwing not reaching 

 beyond R\ not edged and shaded with 

 bine . . . . . . . . 2. P. ussheri. 



c. Band of hindwing above not e.xtending beyond 



W 3. P. decius. 



Band of hindwing above extending beyond 



R' . . . . . . . . 4. P. violinitens. 



II. Females. 

 (I. Median band of forewing below sharply limited 



distally by a brown-black band . . . 1. P. publius. 

 This band not sharply limite<l distally . . e. 



e. Postdiscal spots of npperside of forewing con- 

 tiguous with one another, orange . . 2. P. ussheri. 

 These spots more or less widely separated . /. 



J. Band of forewing above measuring less than 

 10 mm. at M^, generally shaded with 

 orange anteriorly . . . . . 3. P. decius. 

 The band measuring more than 1 1 mm. at M^, 



all white . . . . . . . 4. P. violinitens. 



1. Palla publius. 



Palla Uisheri, Aurivillius (mm Butler, 1870), Op: Vet. AL fork, xxxxiv. p. .312. n. 18 (1887) 



(Congo). 

 Pidla piihlias Staudinger, /ns v. p. 267 (1892) ( (^ ? , S. Leone). 

 Palla recli/iiscia Weymer, Stett. Eut. Z,h. liii. p. 91. n. 9 (1892) ((J, W. Afr.). 

 ChurattKx publhis Aurivillius, Tidskr. Ent xv. p. 312. sub. n. 203 (1894) (Congo) ; But!., Jnnrii. 



Linn. Sor. Land. xxv. p. 403. n. l.o8 (18911) (partim) ; Auriv., Kougl. Sv. Vet. Ak-. Handl. xxxi. 5. 



p. 242. n. 57 (1899) (S. Leone; SklaVHnkuste ; Old Calabar; Kuilu ; Congo; "Angola" 



aim ttpfi-.y 



S. Body above olive-black, shaded with mummy-brown, below mummy- 

 brown ; underside of abdomen not paler than breast ; femora black, speckled with 

 white : head and proiiotuni partly shaded with cinnamon-rufous. 



Wings, u/jjjerside, black, slightly purplish. Forewing : a straight white 



baud from costal to inner margin, slightly widening bebind, touching a[iex of cell, 

 bordered with blue or violet at inner side, this border not reaching costal margin, 

 often vestigial, a similar border at outer side, but shorter and narrower, often 



absent. Hindwing : the while band of the forewing continued to R' or R-, 



pointed b(fliind or truncate, genenilly slightly edged with blue or violet proximally ; 

 the band continnous with an orange area, which widens behind, extending at distal 

 margin from tail to anal angle, tail inclusive ; four or five snbmarginal dots : the 



