( 530 ) 



The oksper of occ. occidenfaUvm is produced into a very long and slender 

 process, wliicli is curved, and is beset at the ventral edge with sharp teeth pro- 

 jecting basad, and the harpo, which is broad and obtnse, bears at the upper 

 edge near the base a long, pointed, conical, slightly curved tooth. In occ. penricn 

 the process of the harpe is shorter and broader, bearing also more teeth, some 

 of which are placed on the outer surface of the clasper, and the dorsal tooth of 

 the harpe is thinner and shorter. 



Hab. Calweha River, Angola, April and Mav, 1898 (G. W. Penrice) 



Asterope moranti. 



Crenh momntii Trimen, Tniiia. Ent. Snc. Lond. p. 439 (1881) (Natal) ; id. & Bowk , .<? Afr Butt 

 i. p. 253. n. 82. t. 5. f. 3 ( ? ) (1887) ; Auriv., I.e. n. 2 (1899). ' " ' 



We have 2 iS and 1 ¥ of this insect, namely, a pair from Natal, the ? 

 being caught May 2nd 1892, at the Valiuert River, and a second c? from Zomba, 

 Nyassaland, obtained in December 1895 by Dr. Percy Rendall. 



As will be seen from the above description of A. occ. penricei, the present 

 species and occiclentaUum come rather close in characters, the gap being partly 

 bridged over by occ. penricei. However, the long tooth projecting from the 

 upper edge of the harpe in both subspecies of occidentalium is absent from our 

 2 <J(? of moranti. The process of the clasper is rather shorter than in occ. penricei, 

 and rough with small tooth-like tubercles all over the outer surface, the dentition 

 of the lower edge ( = distal edge, as the clasper is turned upwards) being much 

 less distinct than in either form of occidentalium. Notwithstanding these differ- 

 ences, it is quite possible that moranti is nothing else but the eastern subspecies, 

 of occidentaliam. A sufficiently large series of specimens from Southern Angola 

 and the Upper Zambesi may eventually prove the insects to completely inter- 

 grade. 



41. Asterope boisduvali. 



Orenu boisduvali WalleDgren, Rhop. Caffr. p. 30. n. 2 (.1867) (Natal) ; Trim. & Bowk., I.e. i. p. 252. 



n. 81. t. 5. f. 2 (cJ). 2a ( ? ) (1887) ; Auriv., I.e. n. 3 (1899). 

 Crenis natalensis, Trimen {nnn Boisduval, 1847), Rhop. Afr. Atistr. p. 144. n. 86 (1862). 



The individual variability in size and colour is not inconsiderable. There 

 are in both sexes paler and darker individuals. The difference is especially 

 noticeable in the ? ? . In the pale specimens the rings of the eye-spots on the 

 underside of the hindwing are often rather bright ochraceous. The clasping 

 organs of the S are characteristic for this species : the clasjjer is jirodnced upwards 

 into a club-shaped, densely tuberculated process, and the long harpe, which is 

 also curved upwards, ends in a long smooth point. 



A. boisduvali consists of two subspecies : — 



a. Asterope boisduvali kaffana subsp. nov. 



c?. Differs from .1. h. boiadui-ali on the underside. The forewing is deeper 

 in tint, approaching that of A. o. occidentalium, the subapical dots are less 

 distinct, the hindwing is more nniform in colour, olivaceous, and the eye-spots 

 not so prominent, resembling in distinctness those of ^4. o. occidentalium. 



8 c?t? from : Godjeb to Bonga, Kaffa, 4. iv. ()1, ti/pe ; Scheko, 25. & 26. iv. 01 ; 

 Upper Gelo R., 4. v. Ul. 



