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between the subspecies of S. par/inssi/s and S. anacardii which obtains in their 

 pattern, the North-Western parhasifiis and Eastern anacardii having a forked 

 Larpe, while the North-AVestern anacardii and Eastern (and Southern) parkassus 

 have the process of the harpe not forked. In both species the more extended- 

 black snbspecies lias tlie forked harpe, but the geograpliical position of the 

 respective subspecies is reversed. Tliis is of im]iortance, since it throws light on 

 the origin of the two species. The original species had donbtless a more extended 

 black jiattern than the present ones, and most likely a forked harpe. It separated 

 into a North-Western and an Eastern snbspecies (the ancestral anacardii occnpying 

 the East and the ancestral parhasmis the North-West of the Continent), the 

 North-Western snbspecies then going south and east and developing here into a paler 

 form again {S. park, aetliiops), while the range of the Eastern subspecies became 

 extended to Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, segregation modifying these latter 

 Ni>rth-Western arrivals also into a paler form, with reduced pattern and reduced 

 copulatory organs (S. anac. anacardii). 



We have S. anac. nebulosa from : Erytrea, Unyora, British and German 

 East Africa, and Nyassaland. 



The Malagasic subspecies S. anacardii diiprei (= definita) can easily be 

 recognised by the absence or reduction of the black snbmarginal patch R' — M' 

 on the forewing and the more produced anal angle of the hiudwiug. 



33. Hypolimnas misippus. 



PapiUu Daiiaus Feslkns inissippux Linn^, Mus. Liicl. Ulr. p. 2(j4. n. 83 (176-t) (America). 

 Bypolimmix misippus, Aurivillius, I.e. p. 147. n. 1 (1899) ; Pagenst., I.e. p. 143. n. 1 (1902). 



There are only two forms of ? ? among the material from Soraaliland and 

 Abyssinia, namely 9 -t misippus and 'i-t dorip/joides. See Aurivillius, /.c. 



23 SS, 10 ?? from: Abd-el-Kadr, 5., 11. & 16. v. UU ; Bubassa, near 

 Harar, 22. v. dU ; Bio Woraba to Dika, near Harar, 23. v. OU ; Djabdjabda, 

 24. V. OU; Harro Kufa to Mojo River, 1. vi. UO ; Kumbi, 0. vi. 00; Odamuda to 

 Djugi, Djidda, 20. vi. OO ; north of Galaua R., Lake Abbaia, 27. xii. 00 ; Galaua 

 R., Lake Abbaia, 31. xii. 00; Lake Gandjule, 5. i. 01 ; Mole River, 22. i. 01 ; Djala, 

 Gofa, 31. i. 01 ; Senti River, Gofa, 29. i. Ul ; Alesa to Schetie, Kotscha, 25. ii. 01 ; 

 Dolba to Uma R., Konta, 28. ii. 01. 



34. Hypolimnas salmacis platydema snbsp. nov. 



(??. Underside of body deeper brown tiian in salm. salmacis; the white 

 obliqne band of the forewing broader and the patches composing it sharper defined ; 

 the white band of the hindwing also broader, both above and below. In the 

 ? the forewing below bears two small white spots at the apical fifth of the cell, 

 one behind SC, the other on the third fold. 



Three SS from : Scheko, 26. iv. Ol (0. Neumann), type ; one S, one ? from 

 Port Alice, Unyoro, 30. vii. 1804 and 9. iii. 1897 (Dr. Ansorge). 



The Unyoro cJ is larger than those from Scheko, and the ? is a very large 

 insect, its forewing measuring 01 mm. 



This subspecies stands in the width of the white bands intermediate between 

 H. s.. salmacis and H. monteironis. The latter species is treated by Aurivillius, 

 Lc. p. 148, as //. .vibnaci.s var. monteironis. If the term " var." is meant to have 

 the deliuite meaning given to it in the introduction to that greatest work ou 



