( 507 ) 

 9. Atella columbina microps subspec. nov., 

 agree with the East and South African examples except in bavin- the basal area 

 of the npperside of the wings distinctly shaded over with ohve. In the,/./««fe 

 this olive shade extends on tl>e forewing from the base to the median series of 

 spots, situated just outside the cell. 



Tupe : 6, from Walenso, Gillet Mts., 9. July 190(1 (Erlanger & Neumann) 

 5 ;?(? 4 ??, from: Gillet Mts., 1. vii. OO ; Walenso, GiUet Mts., 

 2000 m., 8.'& 9. vii. 00 ; Gara-Daig, Abunas, 2500 m., 10. vii. 00; Tscheratscba to 

 Goscho, Metscha, 17. ix. 00 ; Habela to Alata, Sidamo, 11. xu. 00. 



10. Argynnis hyperbius neumanni. 



Arg„nnls ui.he, Oberthur („on Linn^, 1707), Au„. Mas. Cir. Gn.ova xv. p. 155. n. 23 (1879) ; id., 



ijLs hjerlius AurivilUus {„nn Linne, HO.S), A'^u..^ So. Vet. Ah: //«.W/. xxx,. 5. p. 127 

 '08l«) Ks-nia); Pagenst., /... p. 137 (1902) (Aethiopia ; not d.fferent from Onental 



^,,Z" %"i"» ^^sumanni Rothschild, Nov. Zoo,,, ix. p. 590 n. 5 (1903) (Kaffa ; Schoa). 



Mr Moore removed Argynnis b/perbim ( = niphe) from the other Argjjnms, 

 Ten Indicaiv p. 230 (1900), keeping it in a separate genus, A^rfa^^a, especially 

 on acconnt of the presence in k;,perbi>is of androconial scales on the median and 

 snbmedian veins of the forewing, and some difterences in the outline of the wing. 

 He quotes Niceville's statement that the androconia are absent from the C.eylou 

 form of hperhius, bnt does not reject it, though he inclndes this Ceylon form as 

 a distinct species in Aeuhna. Our material shows that the presence of raised 

 androconial scaling on the veins of the forewing is in this c.se ^-f f l^ °° ^ 

 character of generic value. The males from Continental (North and South) India 

 have a distinct fold on the lower median vein, M=, while this fold is absent from 

 the specimens occurring in ( ihina, Formosa, Japan, Java, etc the males from these 

 countries being either practically without androconia on the veins or possessing 

 only a limited number of. such scales, which are, moreover, not raised^ In the 

 Abvssinian subspecies the streaks of androconia are jnst vestigial, the difference in 

 this respect from Sontli and North Indian specimens being very marked. 



There is another structural character distinguisliing nenman>u from the Indian . 

 as well as the other Oriental forms of h,perhins. The dorsal portion of the clasper 

 of hperbi.s is produced into a horizontal process. The process is club-shaped, 

 naked, and beset with small pointed tubercles. In neuma>u^i this process is 

 decidedly shorter than in the Oriental subspecies, being in the former a little 

 shorter and in the latter longer than tlie lobe of the clasper lying beneath it. Ihe 

 rest of the clasper is divided by an apical sinus into a long and narrow upper and 

 ash.jrt and broad ventral lobe. In neumanni the upper lobe is narrower and the 

 lower one less denticulate tlian in the Oriental forms. ,, „ , ,-■„ 



V, 6S '1 ? ? from : Badattino to Abnje, Schoa, 28. ix. 00 ; Ivollu to Kilhe, 

 Schoa, 0. x.'oo ; Abela to Halata, Sidamo, 12. xii. .)0 ; Abera, Djamdjam 18.-2;{. 

 xii 00 • Gamfa, Doko, 13. ii. 01 ; Naja to Banka, Malo, 14. ii. 01 ; Banka, Malo, 

 n'ii 01 ; Anderatscha, Kaifa, 11. iii. 01 ; Detscha to Schubba, Kaffa, 11. iv 01. 



The species apparently does not occur in the mountainous districts ot North 

 Somaliland ((iiUet Mts.), where a good many collections have come from. 



The names of /a/perbiu.% nip/,,; argyri,iH, and tigris apply all to Chinese 

 specimens, and lephnia was proposed by Godart for Chinese an<l Indian m„l,'s. 



