(532 ) 

 Asterope amazoula. 



Crmis amazoula Mabille, Bull. Sec. Ent. Bt/ij. xxiii, p. IG (188(1) (Madag. ; "Natal" Inci error rel 



alia spec.). 

 Crenis amazula (!) id., in Grandid., Hist. Nal. Madmj., Lrp. i. p. 153. t, 17. f. 7-10 ((J ? ) (1885-7) 



(Madag.). 

 Crenis nalalauis, Aurivillius (mw Boisduval, 1847), I.e. p. IGl. d. (i (1899) (partim). 



It is to be regretted that Mabille gave the name amazoula to an insect which 

 is confined to the Malagasic subregion. The Boisdnvalian sjiecimens from Natal, 

 to which Mabille refers in his original description as being the same as the 

 Malagasic ones, liad eitlier a wrong locality attached to them or belonged to 

 Asterope trimeni. 



In colonr amnzoula is widely different from m'ldagascarien&is, while the 

 se.xnal armature of the two insects is apjiarently identical. That is very remark- 

 able ; for tlie astonishingly great similarity or (according to our research) identity 

 in these organs is directly injurious to the existence of the insects as separate 

 entities. The markings of the underside are prominent, in contradistinction to 

 madagascariensis. The outer rings of the eye-spots of the hind wings are ochraceous 

 and merged together to two lines. 



In the Tring Museum 3 (J cJ and 5 ? ¥ , mostly from Morondawa, S.W. Mada- 

 gascar (Last). 



Asterope trimeni. 



Crenis rminlensis var., Trimen, Pri>r. Zool. Sni\ Lmid. p. 7G. n. -25. t. 9. f. 12 {^) (1891) (Omrora 



and Okavanga R,, S.W. Afr., xi. xii.). 

 Crenis nainhnsis var. trimeni Aurivillius, I.e. p. Ifil. sub n. 6 (1899). 



We have 14 3-6 and 5 ? ¥ of this insect from between Stanley Pool and 

 Lukolele (Congo), various places in Angola (October and November), Cape Colony 

 and Delagoa Bay. 



As the differences in colour between this series and that of natalemis in the 

 Tring Museum are accompanied by differences in the sexual apparatus, we have 

 no doubt that trimeni is a distinct species. The species is easily recognised by the 

 underside of the hindwing being of a peculiar blue-grey colonr, and by the outer 

 rings of the eye-spots being bright ochraceous and merged together to two lines. 

 The cJ is paler than the ¥ . The brown-black apical area of the upperside of the 

 forewing of the ? is nearly as large as in natalensis ¥, but the pale ochraceous 

 spots within it are larger. The S differs from that of nataUmin in the much paler 

 upperside and the larger and more clearly marked jiale ochraceous spots in the 

 ajncal half of the upperside of the forewing, and in the presence of a black-brown 

 patch just outside the cell on the underside of the forewing, the patch resembling 

 that of the ? . The clasper is much shorter and more obtuse than in nataUnsis ; 

 the harpe is spatulate. A. trimeni reminds one of the Malagasic amazoula ; the 

 latter agrees, however, in structure with madayascariemis, differing widely from 

 trimeni and natalensis. 



Asterope consors sjiec. uov. 



A series of both sexes of an Asterope from Angola and the Upper Zambesi, 



though apparently identical with trimeni in structure, seems to us to represent 



_ another s])ecies. We thought at first that consors and trimeni (and madagas- 



cariensis and amazoula) were seasonal forms of one species. However, our 



specimens of consors and trimeni from Angola were all caught at the end of the 



