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being more extended blacl- than anac. aaacardii. Anrivillius, ;,<-., did not know 

 the trne amcardii from North-AVest Africa. We have not seen a specimen of 

 a„acardii from the Congo Free State northward to the Niger; the species does 

 not seem to ocenr there. 



Salamis anacardii anacardii. 



Ptipilvt Daniiita tumnrnlii Linne, l.f. 



Salamis nebulom. Trimen & Bosvker, S. Ari- Bnlt. i. p. 248 (1887) (partial ; Gold Coast). 



Clerck's figure agrees with specimens from the Gohl Coast and Sierra Leone. 

 The l.laek ajiical area of the forewing, on the npperside, does not extend backwards 

 beyond R' in the snbraargiiial region. Tlie dentate process of the harpe of the i 

 resembles somewhat that" fonnd in S. parhassiis uethiops, being club-shaped and 

 dentate. However, in some individuals the process is divided into two dentate 

 chibs, approaching the structure found in S. anacardii iiehidosa. The upper 

 lobe of the clasper is denticulate at the apical edge in the three subspecies 

 of anacardii; in parhassus it is not denticulate or the teeth are very few 

 ill number (Congo specimens). We have S. anac. anacardii only from Sierra 

 Leone and the Gold Coast (11 c? c?, 4 ? ? ). 



Salamis anacardii nebulosa. 



Sahmh nebulosa Trimen, Trans. E„t. Soc. Loml p. 441 (1881) (Zululand ; Natal ; Delagoa Bay); 



id. and Bowk., S Afr. Biiif. i. p. 24G. n. 79 (1887) (" Cape Coast Castle " e.xcepted). 

 Salamis nelulosiis iid.. I.e. p. 247 (1887). 



Salamis (letinila Butler {noii id., 1879), Pioc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. G5.S. n. 48 (1893). 

 Protogomomorpha aglantomce, id. (non Godart, 1819), I.e. p. 564. n. 34 (1894) (Brit. E. Afr.). 



Mistaking S. par/iassm for the Linnaean anacardii, Trimen described the 

 East African subspecies of anacardii as a new species. Had he been aware that 

 the name anacardii applied to the species with the oiiaque niuk'rside, and tliat 

 the species with the glossy underside was parha.'ism, Trimen would have abstained 

 from giving the Eastern 'anacardii a name. For in 18S7, I.e., lie says of nebulosa 

 (quite" correctly as regards the distinction) that three examples which he has 

 "seen from the Gold Coast, one of which is in the collection of the South 

 African Museum, differ slightly from those above mentioned in having the black 

 markings of the npperside less developed, althougii much more so than in 

 anacardii." These examples of " nebulosa " are the trne anacardii, the anacardii 

 with which they are compared at the end of the sentence being parhassus. 



■ Dr. Butler erroneously applied the names of aglantonice and dejinita to this 

 insect. The former name refers to the North-West African subspecies of 

 parhassus, as a glance at Lucas's figure will prove, and d^fnita, being a name 

 ori<-inally given to Madagascar individuals of the Malagasic 6'. anacardii duprci, 

 caimot possibly again be applied to Continental African specimens which are qmte 

 different from the Malagasic ones, notwithstanding Butler sa)-s that aglntomcc, 

 dejinita, and ncbulo.m are " mere spoits of one variable form." 



The ? of nebulosa is mnch more extended black than the S, tiie difterence 

 in the sexes being far more obvious than in the Nortli-West Afri.'.an subspecies 

 of anacardii, and than in the sexes of the two subspecies of .S'. j,arha.s.s>,s. The 

 process of the harpe of the male is forked, each half of the fork being ciub-shape.l. 

 It is worthy of note tiiat we find here again the same kind of contradistmcUon 



