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of Asterope contained iu the Tring Museum. We believe that we have correctly 

 identified all the known species with the exception of one, A. garegn. This 

 species is described by Karsch from Kameruu in FM. Nachr. p. 173 (1892) 

 from a single S- The learned Professor compares it with .1. nafalensis, from 

 which it is said to differ in the following points : the dark brown border to the 

 anterior edge of the forewing, which border includes paler spots, is narrower, 

 and is almost straight behind at R' ( = Karsch's M') ; the eye-spots on the 

 underside of the hindwiug are more proximal ; the apex of the forewing is 

 more obviously truncate, and the outer margin rounded, not undulate. 



Aurivillius, who had doubtless compared the ti/pe of garega, puts it down 

 as a synonym of howensis of Staudinger, I.e. p. 1(11. n. 4 (1899). This howensis, 

 as conceived by Aurivillius and Staudinger, is a mixture of different species. 

 However, as Aurivillius refers to Mabille's Plate XVII. f .5. 6, adding f. 3. 4. 

 with ?, it is obvious that Aurivillius believed howensis to be a species somewhat 

 similar in colour to the ? of natalcnsis. Therefore, garega being considered 

 identical with limven.sis by Aurivillius, we must conclude that garega is similar 

 to the ? of na.talensis, not to the S. However, we can scarcely believe that 

 Prof. Karsch compared the tJ of a supposed new species with the ? of a known 

 one without saying so. We have no specimen from Kamerun, Gabun, or the 

 Lower Congo, which agrees with the short description of garega, and must for 

 the present treat the name garega as of dubious a])plication. 



4(). Asterope occidentalium. 



Crenis occkhnkilium Mabille, Bull. Sue. Zool. FniiKe i. p. 275 (1876) (Gabon). 



The range of this species extends from Sierra Leone to Angola, and eastwards 

 to Western Abyssinia. 



There are two subspecies : — 



a. Asterope occidentalium occidentalium. 



C. 0. Mabille, /.-■. ; Aurivillius, I.e. p. 160. n. 1 (1899). 

 Crenis vadimim/s Druce, Eut. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 226 (1878). 



Crenis ribbei Dewitz, N. Acta. Leap. Carol. Ak. Naturf. xli. 2. p. 196. t. 26. f. 3 (1879) (Northern 

 Angola). 



10 SS from : Scheko, 25., 20., 27. iv. 01 ; Uiiper Gelo R., 1. v. Ol. 

 These specimens do not differ from West Coast examples. 



b. Asterope occidentalium penricei subsp. uov. 



c?. Upper.vde jialer than in the preceding, but darker than in moranfi, about 

 midway between the two in tint. 



Underside: Forewing not quite so jiale ochraceous as in moranfi, much 

 paler than in occ. occidentalium ; tlie black patch situated proximally of the 

 greyish apical area rather deeper in tint than in vwranti and a little larger, 

 being much smalhir and better defined than in occ. occidentalium; the smaller 

 patch just outside the apex of the cell is less distinct than the larger patch, 

 being in one of the specimens vestigial ; the black dots in tin; apical area are 



less distinct than in the i)rcvious. On the hindwing llie Ijasal halt and the 



eye-spots are flushed witli pale violet, as in mnranti, the inner violet-grey ring 

 of the eye-Biwts contrasting in some specimens rather strongly with the olivaceous 



