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Palla decius, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 273. n. 1 (1871) (partim) 



PaUa nxHhn-i, id., l.i: p. 273. n. 2 (1871) (Gold Coast). 



Palla decius var., Staudinger, Erut. Taijf. t. 00 (jj) (1886) (Sierra Leone). 



Palla iissheri, id., I.e. p. 173 (188()) {^ ; $ ^nuliiiileiis) ; id., Iris v. p. 2G5 (18112) (Sierra Leone ; 



c?(J, ? ? ) ; Schaus & Clem. Siemi Leone Lep. p. 9 (1893). 

 Palla UHheri (!), Weymer, Stell. Eiil. Zeit. liii. p. 93 (1892). 

 C'liaraxes ii.'i.ihrri Butler, Joiirn. Linn. Sue. Land. xxv. p. 404. n. 159 (1896) (Sierra Leone ; 



Ashanti ; Old Calabar ; Cameroons ; Congo); Auriv., Kungl. Sv. Vet. Ah. ITandl. x.\xi. 5. p. 242. 



n. .'iS (1898) (partim). 



cJ. Body above olivaceous blaek, underside somewhat ])aler, tibiae and tarsi 

 clayish, underside of abdomen jniie linlF, with blaci<ish mesial vitta ; head and 

 pronotnm ])artly shaded with cinuamon-riifous ; femora black, speckled with white. 



Wiug.s, upperside, black, slightly purplish in side-light. Forevviug : no 



markings, except a straight white band from costal to inner margin, touching ajiex 

 of cell, gradually widening beiiind, feebly i)urplish at the edges, often shaded with 



orange at inner margin of wing. Hindwing : white band of forewing here 



continued only to SC^, or just indicated at costal margin, this white patch being the 

 anterior portion of a large orange area which extends backwards to outer margin, 

 expanding there between R- and anal angle, the area similar to that oi jjiihlias, but 

 on the whole a little wider ; black, white-jnipilled, submarginal spots R- — R^ and 

 M'— M- distinct, dot R^— M' very small or absent, white dots M'—SM^ distinct, 

 orange patch R- — R', in which is situated the black submarginal spot, more or less 

 completely merged together with the orange area, a small submarginal orange spot 

 R' — R-, and sometimes traces of similar spots bet\ve>;n (J and R' ; tail tipped with 

 buff ; fringe brown between tail and anal angle. 



Uiulersiile somewhat paler than in publius, the tail brighter orange, the white 

 band not shar[)ly limited externally on either wing, the inters[)aces between the 

 black striae being white near the band both on fore- and liindwing ; the striated 

 areas less extended glossy than in publius, especially on the forewing. 



¥. Very different from the male in pattern, wings wider, tail longer and 

 broader. Variable. Body paler than In S ; underside of palpus j)ale clayish bufl' 



like tiie tibiae and tarsi. Wings, upperside : basal area extending on forewing 



just beyond apex of cell, on hindwing beyond base of M-, brown-black, shaded with 

 olive, its outer edge straight or denticulate ; a broad median band from costal edge 

 of forewing to abdominal margin of hindwing, narrowed at both ends, of 10 to 

 ID mm. width at inner margin of forewing, and of about the same widtii at R^ of 

 hindwing, not so sharply defined distally as proximallj', on the forewing more or 

 less incised at the upper veins and dentate at the lower ones, of a pale orange colour 

 distally, shading into whitish buff-yellow proximally and behind, and on hindwing 

 becoming nearly white at proximal edge ; the long hairs white at the proximal edge 

 of the band on liindwing ; upon this band follows a black one, which is vestigial on 

 the forewing in one of our ? ? ; the black band incompletely separated into spots on 

 the forewing and oblique in position, approaching hinder angle, 6 to 10 mm. wide, 

 on hindwing parallel to outer margin, strongly narrowed between M' and abdominal 

 margin ; outside tin's band there is on the forewing a narrower orange band, sub- 

 divided into spots, spot R' — R^ more distal than the two next to it, the s{)ots more 

 or less produced distad along the veins, si)Ot R--^R^ deejdy sinuate distally ; on the 

 hindwing there is a corresponding sniimarginal band, which is separate from the 

 edge of the wing by a narrow inarginal black or brown-black line between C and 

 tail, and by a plumbaginous line (^often indistinct) between tail and anal angle ; this 



