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Knitampo, April 1809 (Col. Northcott) ; Warri, Lower Niger, March 1896, April 

 1895 (Dr. F. Eoth); Stanley Pool to Lokolele, Congo (Harrison). 



TLoiigh rioliiiiti'ns eomes very close to decius, the two insects are apjiarently 

 always (listiuirnishahle in the male sex. Some of the /('««(/(■«, however, present a 

 combination of clianuters which seems to indicate that there is no constant line 

 of division between what is called di'ciKS and cioUnitens. Female .specimens 

 with broad white band and bnff-yellow jiostdiscal spots to the forewing, and others 

 witii a narrow white band which has scarcely a trace of orange, and with almost 

 purely white jjostdiscal spots, make tlie specific distinctness of decius and violiuiteiis 

 at least doubtfnl. More material of the female se.\ is required to decide the 

 question. 



Genus EUXANTHE. 



Papiliii JVi/iiiphiilis Phalrratus, Cramer, P<iji. Exol. i. Index (1775). 



PfipUin Fi-xth-iix, Fabricius, Knt. Sysl. iii. i. p. 57 (179:0. 



P„j,ilio, Donovan, Lis. Imlia t. 34 (1800). 



Eiu-uiilhf Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sriiiii. p. ?/9 (181Ci-27) (type : eui-inume) ; Schalz. Exot. Tmif. ii. p. 180 



(1888) ; Auriv., Konyl. .Sc. Vel. Ak. ilmiill. x.xxi. 5. p. 219 (1899). 

 N;/mi,Ii„i;s, Godart, Eiw. MM. ix. p. .S98 (18-2:i). 

 GuiUrtvi Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. France p. 297 (1842) (type : mdikifjaxr.arknsis) ; Snell., Tijilxehi: Ent. 



XXXV. p. 7 (1892). 

 Aulliom Doubleday, LikI Lep. Ina. B.M. i. p. 99 (1846) (nom. nml.). 

 Bi/jiumrl(irn,i Aurivillius, I.e. p. 220 (1899) (type : Inijoniis). 



(J?. All the tibiae spinose above and below. Spines of upperside of tarsi 

 long. (Haw-segment witli ten apical bristles as a rule. Basal patch of modified 

 scales of underside of forewing extending l)eyond SM- (as in C/idra.res) ; stalk of 

 g(j3.4.5 short ; upper angle of cell obtuse. Hindwing rounded, no indication of tail, 

 anal angle not produced ; PC not forked. Palpi, breast and legs dotted with white. 

 No such black bars on wings as are found in Eulepis, Charnxes, and Palla. 

 Cell of hindwing open or closed. 



J. Foretarsus very short, not scaled below from middle to ape.x ; foretibia 

 with numerous slender bristles. Sexual apparatus as in Chara.re.<5. 



Early stages similar to those of Chara.ees. 



Hub. Aethiopian Region inclnsive of Madagascar. 



The neuration is different in nearly all species. The subcostals differ often on 

 the right and left forewing of the same individual. The copulatory apparatus (c? ?) 

 is the same in the various species. 



Key to the species : 



1. Cell of hindwing closed ; basal area of fore- 



wing above orange .... 2. 



Cell of hindwing open (sometimes closed by 

 a black bar, but never by a complete 

 vein, the cross-vein D'* being only ves- 

 tigial or quite absent) .... 3. 



2. SC of forewing free l.E.tiberim. 



SC „ ,, anastomosed with C . .2. E. trqjanns. 



3. Pale median streak C— SC- of hindwing 



above long, extending to near base 



of c; 4. 



This streak reduced S. 



