( 534 ) 



denticulated; the harpe tapers sligbtl_v in ventral view, rather strongly in side-view, 

 being sabre-shaped in this aspect. 



Tiiere .are in the Tring Museum T c? c? of this species collected by Dr. Ansorge 

 at Lugula, Usoga, 21. xii. 96 ; Mondo, Uganda, 24. xii. 9(3 ; Banda, Uganda, 

 27. xii. 96 ; Kikoyero, Unyoro, 31. iii. 97 ; Kaligire, Unyoro, 5. i. 98. 



42. Asterope ansorgei spec nov. 



cJ. Upperside of wings ochraceons, much brighter than in all the other 



species. Forewing : costal and apical area brown-black, this colour varying mnch 



in intensity and extent ; the brown-black patch at the apex of the cell gradually 

 shading off basally, the blackish shade filling in nearly the whole cell ; the 

 obli(|ne brown snbapical band either blackish brown, obsolescent, or black and 

 extended to the distal margin ; in the former case {t(/pe) the ochraceons snbapical 

 spots, which are of the colour of the disc, not separated from it ; the brown 

 patch situated at the base of cellule R' — M' obsolete, practically absent, or 



obsolescent at M' ; black-brown submarginal spot M- — SM- small. Hindwing : 



black dots smaller than in trimeni, natalennis, umhrina, and consors. 



Vnderside. Forewing rather brighter yellow than in consors and frimeni ;' 



snbapical baud brown or black, not extended to distal margin ; obliciue band 

 beyond apex of cell broad, separated from tlie snbapical one or connected with 

 it ; apex of wing dirty gre}', proximal submarginal series of dots within this area 



obsolescent ; submarginal spot M^ — SM^ vestigial. Hindwiug similar to that 



of natalensig, the bars and rings more or less obviously clayish ochraceons ; l)lack 

 centres of eye-spots small. 



Sexual armature essentially as in natalensis. 



? . Not known to us. 



Hab.: Ran, Nandi country, 14. iii. 99: Patsho, Naudi country, 11. xii. 96; 

 Kabras, Uganda Protectorate, 13. xii. 96 (O/pe) ; Kiwalogoma, Uganda, 26. xii. 96 ; 

 Banda, Uganda, 27. xii. 96 ; Kampala, Uganda, i. 97 ; Port Alice, Uganda, 1. & 

 2. i. 97, and ID. — 13. ii. 97; Msarosaro, Uganda, 14. iii. 99; three days' march 

 from Fort Beni, Aruwimi Forest, 7. v. 99 ; ^0 <S(S, all caught by Dr. Ansorge, 

 in whose honour the species is named. 



0. Neumann found i S<S between Godjeb and Bonga, Kaffa, 4. iv. 01. 



Asterope amulia. 



Papilio NymphaUs Gemvwtiis amulia Cramer, Paji. Ex. ii. p. 128. t. 189. f. C. (1777) (Sierra 



Leone). 

 Papilio NymphaUs amolia, Fabriciu8, E)it. Syst. iii. 1. p. 120. n. 398 (1793) (Sierra Leone). 

 Creiiis amulia, Aurivillius, I.e. p. 161. n. 8 (1899). 



This and the two following species agree almost exactly in the genital 

 armature of the S S , a, fact of importance, if we have to weigh the bearing 

 of the similarity in these organs between Asfei-ope madagascariensis and amazoula, 

 natalensi.<i and ansorgei, consors and triinem, upon the relation of the insects 

 towards each other. It is evident that, since nobody can doubt the distinctness 

 at least of amulia from benguelae. or rosa, the similarity in the sexual organs 

 of the before-named insects is also not an indication of specific identity of the 

 insects. The clasper of amulia, rosn and benguelae is truncate and at the 

 upper corner produced into a very long and very slender process, which is 

 denticulate at the end and more or less curved, the apex being sometimes almost 



