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median band of the liindwing or paler, becoming white at the base, while the 

 underside of the alidomen of echeria is about as dark olive-black as the marginal 

 area of the liindwinp;. The white si)ot on the second segment of the palpus 

 is always long in both sexes of nlhiiniciikUa, and always short in crheria. The 

 spots of the forewing are white, but that is also the case in nearly all echeria 

 jacksoni aud the greater proportion of echeria echeria. 



The specimens described by Bntler as Amauris harringtoni belong to 

 albimaculata. 



NYMPHALINAE. 

 8. Atella phalantha aethiopica subspec. no v. 

 Trimen, in S. A/r. Butt. i. p. 192 (1887), points out some differences 

 between the Oriental and African specimens of phalantha. He says : " In the 

 Asiatic Region ... the butterfly appears constantly to present on the upper side 

 of the forewings the middle discal row of black spots, which in South African 

 individuals is only completely shown on the nnderside ; and in the same way 

 they possess on tlie upper side of the hindwiugs two lines of disconnected short 

 thin black lines before the discal row of spots corresponding in position to the 

 streaks present on the under side." We have very long series of specimens from 

 the Aethiopian and Oriental Regions, and are able to conlirm Trimen's statement. 

 We add to the distinctions given another which also holds good in all iudividnals : 

 the bars in the basal half of the hindwiug below are deep brown or black in 

 the Oriental specimens and pale brown or ochraceous in African ones, the difference 

 in colour being especially noticeable in the double bar sitnated at the end of the 

 cell, if individuals of the same sex are compared. Specimens from the Malagasic 

 Subregion, especially females, approach a little the Oriental individuals. The 

 clasping organs of the male are practically alike in African and Indian 

 examples, the sinus of the clasper being perhaps a little deeper and the 

 lower lobe of the clasper slightly more spatulate in the Oriental specimens. 



Type of aethiopica from the Gillet Mts., Somaliland, 1. July l'.»00 (Erlanger 

 and Neumann). 



West African specimens are on the whole heavier spotted than East African 

 ones, the bars in the middle of the wings being more accentuated and therefore 

 appearing more numerous. 



Baron von Erlanger and 0. Neumann found five cJcJ, three ? ? at : Harar, 

 30. iv. 00; Abd-el-Kadr, south of Harar, 11., 14. & 15. v. 00; Gillet Mts., 

 1900—2200 m., 29. vi. & 1. vii. 00 ; Wallenso, Gillet Mts., 2000 m., 9. vii. 00 ; 

 Boko-Kore, Hanash River, 5. viii. 00. 



0. Neumann captured only one 3 of this common insect at the Mole River, 

 17. i. 01. 



The individuals of Atella phalantha from the island of Sokotra captured by 

 Messrs. Forbes aud Grant, aud recorded as phalantha by Mr. W. K. Ogilvie- 

 Grant in Forbes, Nat. Hist. Hokotra p. 302 (1903), represent a very remarkable 

 subspecies, being similar to dark Indian specimens on the upper- and pale 

 African oues on the underside. We name it 



Atella phalantha i^ranti subsjiec. nov. 

 Black markings of the iippersiik lieavy on both wings, the discal row of bars 

 continued to SM^ of hindwing, the median bars SC'^— R'' of the same wing 



