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African Butterflies, namely signifying geographical form, monfeironis can on 

 no account be a " var." of salmacis, as the range of sahnacis embraces that 

 of monteiroiiiis entirely, the two insects being fonnil togetlier in the Congo 

 Region, including Unyoro, and the country west of Lake Victoria. Apart 

 from the constancy of the distinguishing characters, the specific distinctness of 

 the two insects becomes at once evident, if we compare Congo specimens of both 

 species with si)ecimeus from Unyoro, the individuals of salmacis of these countries 

 being very diti'erent, while the specimens of monteironis are not different. The 

 distinctions in structure between the two species are very slight. We have a long 

 series of specimens both of monteironis and salmacis. 



35. Eurytela hiarbas abyssinica subspec. nov. 



Eurytehi hiarbax, Pagenstecher, I.e. p. 144. n. 1 (1902). 



(?¥. Wings shaped as in E. hiarhas hiarbas. White band of upperside 

 slitrhtly wider than in E. hiarbas angustata, not longer on the forewing than in 

 that subspecies and less tapering, narrower than in /(. hiarbas ; distal margin of 

 forewing distinctly tawny brown, as it is in angustata from South Africa. Under- 

 side similar to that of angustata, differing from that of hiarbas obviously in the 

 reduction of the bluish white bars, and in the narrow white band of the hindwing 

 bein°- shaded over with chocolate brown at the costal margin; olivaceous costal 

 space situated on the forewing midway between cell and apex bordered distally by 

 a thin white line, corresponding to the bluish white dots of h. hiarbas ; white 

 band of forewing broader than in h. angustata, sharply defined from hinder 

 margin of wing to M', suddenly tapering from W, appearing oblicpiely truncate, 

 the band concave on the outer, convex (subangulate) on the proximal side ; the 

 white costal subapical dot of the forewing usually absent, never marked on the 

 upperside either in cf or ? . 



Type from Banka. 



9 c?ci', 3 ? ? from: Habela to Alata, Sidamo, 11. xii. 00; Alata, 

 Sidamo, 13. xii. OU ; Koritscha to Tomata, Dara R., Gudji, 24. xii. 00; Banka, 

 Malo, 17. ii. 01 ; Dareta Mts., Kaffa, 2. iii. 01 ; Wori to Gamitscha, Kafia, 

 5. iii. 01 ; Anderatscha, Kaf!a, 24. iii. 01 ; Kaukati to Djibbe, Djimma, 



20. iii. 01. 



The individuals of E. hiarbas from British East Africa (Kikuyu Escarpment 

 and Nandi country) as well as from Nyassaland— most likely all the specimens from 

 tropical East Africa— differ from the specimens occurring in Natal and Cape 

 Colony {E. hiarbas angustata) in the distal margin of the forewing being less 

 angulate at R' and not being tawny brown, iu the white baud of the forewing being 

 as narrow as in angustata, while the band of the hindwing is rather broader, in 

 the latter band lieing on the underside very little shaded with brown at the 

 costal margin, in tliat of the forewing below being longer, and in the anal area 

 of the hindwing below being much less extended chestnut. The bluish white 

 bars bordering the chestnut markings on the underside are also better expressed. 

 We name this tropical narrow-banded subspecies— 



E. hiarbas lita subsp. nov. 

 Ti/jie from the Kikuyu Es(tarpment. 



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