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of onr specimoiis from Sierra Leone tlie additional ]irojpotions are nnraerons, this 

 harjie forming a kind of tiansition towards the iiar}ie oi' jmi///. (Wtliiops. Though 

 we have dissected several dozens of specimens from various localities, we have 

 only come across this one instance of a marked deviation from the normal forked 

 liariie of ixirli. jxirlia.oiK.f. Harpes intermediate between those of parhassus and 

 avfliiops will doubtless be found among tlie individuals from Old ('alabar and 

 Kamernn if a sufficiently large number be examined ; we have no SS from these 

 ]daces. Tlie individuals from Cape Colony and Natal are, on the whole, purer 

 white than those from the trojiieal countries. Our dissections seem to us to 

 indicate that there is a slight distinction between the Congo specimens (and 

 presumably those from Gabnn to the Niger) on the one hand and those from the 

 more eastern and southern districts on the other. 



0. Neumann and Baron von Erianger obtained a series of specimens in 

 North Somaliland, and the former met with the species again farther west. 



10 3S, 1 ?, from: Harar, 20. iv. 00 ; Gillet Mts., 1900-^2200 m., 29. vi. 

 & 1. vii. iMi : Wori to Gamitscha, Kafl'a, 5. iii. Ol ; Upper Gelo R., 1. v. 01. 



Salamis parhassus parhassus. 



PapiVni Ni/iHjiliii!is GriiuiKitus piirhdsftiis Drury, I.e. (Sierra Leone), 



Vanemi agtaUm/ce Godart, Eiic. Me'lli. ix. p. 299. n. 8 (1819) (/<»/-.?) ; Lucas, Lep. Ex. p. 110. 



t. 57. f. 2 (1 8.3,0). 

 Siilnmis iiniiearilii, auct, (partim). 

 Salamis amirdriHi ah. jiarliassits, Aurivillius, l.r. (partim). 



We have this subspecies from Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, and Warri, 



Niger Coast Protectorate, In all of them the black submarginal spot R' — R- 



of the forewiiig is connected with the black distal marginal band, and also 



with the costal jiortion of the black a])ical area. 



The second white species of Salamis, S. anacardii, has a chalky white 

 underside, and the ocellus M' — M" on the underside of tlie forewing is obsolescent 

 or vestigial. It is not among 0. Neumann's material, but we have it from 

 Salomona, Erytrea. 



Salamis anacardii. 



Pupilio Dimaus anacardii Linn^, Syst. Nat.ei. x, p, 4G7, n. 50 (17,'i8) {xi/iiim. e.rrlu.ia ; America!) ; 

 Cletck, Icon. t. 28, f. 3 (1764). 



This species consists of three well-defined subspecies : — 



C anacardii fi'om W'est Africa. 

 S. anacardii nebulosa „ South and East Africa. 

 I duprei ,, Madagascar. 



Comparing the differences between the two subspecies of 5. parhassus with 

 those separating the two continental subspecies of S. anacardii, cue very remark- 

 able jwint is observed, which, if it had been noticed or carefully taken into 

 consideration, would have made the advocates of the specific identity oi' anamri/ii 

 and parhassus suspicious of the correctness of their conclusion. For, while in 

 purha.ssus the north-western subsjjecies is more extended black than the southern 

 and eastern one, in unacunlii just the opposite distinction obtains, anac. nebulosa 



