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 b. Asterope boisduvali boisdnvali. 



Crenis boisdnvali Wallengren, l.c. 



We have a very long series from Sierra Leoue, Gold Coast, Congo, Augola, 

 Cape Colony, Natal, Delagoa Bay, British East Africa, Uganda, and Unyoro. 



Asterope howensis. 



Ci-enh howeimh Staudinger, Exut. Sclim. i. p. 108 (188fi) (Madagascar; " Natal "crmr loci vel aim 

 specks) ; Auriv., l.c. p. 161. n. 4 (1899) (partim ; Madagascar; uec Kamerun, Natal, Delagoa 

 Bay, Querimbe). 



Crenis i,ataleii.4s, Mabille (noii Boisduval, 1847), in Grandid., Hi.^t Nat. Madnrj , Up p 152 t 17 

 f. 3& 4(<;J). 5& 6(?)(1885-87). 



The representative of boisdnvali ; perhaps only a subspecies, a ixuestion which 

 is better left for a future mouograjjher of the genns to decide. The underside 

 of the hindwing is as strongly variegated as in A. b. boisdtimli. There are 

 here, as in the jjrevious species, darker and paler specimens in both sexes. The 

 inerassate apical portion of the process of the clasper is rather longer than in 

 A. boisdui-ali, and the liarpe is much shorter and obtuse, not being produced into 

 a long point. 



The species occurs only on Madagascar (or, at least, only in the Malagasic 

 subregion), not on the Continent. The Natal specimens which Staudinger 

 identified as //owensis when publishing this name had either a wrong locality 

 attached to them, or belonged to natalensis or moi-anti, or were large individuals 

 of boisduvali. 



We have 12 c?c? and 8 ? ? o{ /lowensis. 



Asterope natalensis. 



Crenis nabilensis Boisduval, in Deleg,, Vn;/. Afr. Aiistr. ii. p. 592 (1847) (Natal) ; Auriv., I.e. p. 161. 



n. 6 (1899) (partim ; Natal, Transvaal ; nee Madagascar ; nee var. trimeni). 

 Crenis boisduvali Staudinger, Exiit. Schm. t. 40(1885). 

 Crenis wallengreui id., I.e. p. 108 (1886) (Natal). 



The sexes of this species are more diiferent than they are in all the preceding 

 ones, the ? being much paler on the upperside and having a purer black apical 

 area to the forewing, with larger, more sharply defined and brighter-coloured spots 

 in it than the tS . 



The clasper of the c? is prolonged into a tapering, but not pointed, process, 

 which is denticulate ; the harpe is obtuse, irregularly spatulate, being dilated 

 ventrally before the apex. 



We have 5 cJ' c? and 6 ? ? from : Cape Colony ; Natal ; Delagoa Bay ; 

 Mikindani, German East Africa (Reimer). 



Asterope madagascariensis. 



Crenis madagascarienais Boisduval, Faime Madnij. Bmirli. p. 48 (1833) (Madag.) ; Mabille, in 

 Grandid., Hist. Nat. MaAig., Up. i. p. 151. t. 17. f. 1. 2 ( ? ) (1885-7). 



The sharply defined large black apical area to the forewing above distinguishes 

 this sjiecies from ail the others. On tiie underside the apex of the forewing and 

 the whole hindwing are as light grey as in luUalemis; the markings are obsolescent. 

 The clasper of the i is prolonged into a very slender, very long, and almost 

 straight process, which is beset with pointed tubercles on the innerside and all 

 round at the apex ; the harpe is very short and obtuse;, bearing bristles at tiie ai)e.\. 



We have W i 3 and lU ? ? from various places in Madagascar. 



