( 535 ) 



bent into a hook. The harpe of all three species is hook-shapefi, the apical lialf 

 being directed basad and upwards and sharply pointed. 



In the Tring Museum 7U-odd cJ t? and 17 ? ? I'rom : Gold Coast; Warri, 

 Niger ; Cameroons ; Gaboon ; Angola. 



Asterope rosa. 



Crenis rosa Hewitson, Ent. ifo. Mug. xiv. p. 82 (1877) (Delagoa Bay, ?) ; Auriv., I.e. p. 161. n. 10 



(1893: partim). 

 Crenh m,ifiue Staudinger, Irh x. p. 358 (IS',18) (Mafia I., Germ B. Afr.) ; Auriv., I.e. n. 9 (1899). 



When describing his mafiae, Staudinger started from the erroneous proposition 

 that i-osa (described from Delagoa Bay) was the same as pechueli (described from 

 Angola), and then proceeded to point out the differences between mafiae. and what 

 he called roaa. 



Standinger had evidently not read Hewitson's description of rosn., nor 

 compared Mrs. Monteiro's figure of it (in Monteiro, Delagoa Bay, 1891), else 

 he would at once have seen that his mnfiae was nothing else but rosa,., and that 

 rosa and pechueli were different. 



The 12 S S and 5 ? ? iu the Tring Museum are from : Mombasa : Ruhuhu 

 R., Magwangware, Germ. East Africa, 5. i. 94 (Dr. Ansorge), Dar-es-Salaam ; 

 Chipaika Estate, Bandawe, Nyassaland, 5. v. 00 (Watkinson) ; Deep Bay, 

 Lake Nyassa, 17. x. 95 (Crawshay) ; Mougu, Barotse, Upper Zambesi, ii. 98 

 (Coryndun); Lumbi and (lowlu-pan, between Lialui and Gazungula, Upper 

 Zambesi, March 98 (Coryndon) ; Bulombo R., Angola, ID. v. 95 (Penrice). 



Asterope pechueli. 



Ci-enis pechmli Dewitz, N. Acta Leop. Car. Ak. Niiturf. xli. 2 p. 195. t. 26. f. 1 ( (J) (1887) (Angola) ; 



id.. I.e. p. .368. t. 17. f. 2 ( ? ) (1887) 

 Crenis rosa, Staudinger {iion Hewitson, 1877), Iris x. p. 358 (1898) ; Auriv., I.e. p. 161. n. 10 (1899) 



(partim). 



The distribution of pechueli and 7-osa speaks against their being geographical 

 races (= subspecies) of the same insect. The series of black submarginal sjwts 

 appears to be always complete on the underside of the forewiug in pechueli, while 

 in rosa there are only four spots, the fourth moreover being much enlarged. 



We have only S S of this species, seventeen from the Congo and one from 

 the Cambe Vley, between Lialni and Gazungula, Upper Zambesi (Coryndon). 



Marpesia camillus. 



Papilio Eques Achiriis camillus Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 11. n. 42 (1781) (Afr. aequin.). 

 Cyreatia camillus, Aurivillius, I.e. p. 163. n. 1 (1899). 



As the type of Hiibner's Marpesia is thyonneus Cram. 220. E. F., we must 

 employ that name for the present species instead of Cyrestis. The author of 

 Cyrestis did not treat Hiibner's names as valid, merely quoting them as 

 synonyms. 



Aurivillius, I.e., suggested that the Malagasic elegans was a variety of 

 camillus. As our series of East African s])ecimens of camillus contains individuals 

 whicii ai)]jroach elegans rather closely, and as further there is no structural difference 

 between eleipins and camillus, tliere can be no doubt that elegans and raniillu.s are 

 geographical forms (= subspecies) of the same insect. The eastern ('outinental 

 individuals (from British East Africa to Nyassaland) differ slightly from the 

 western and northern ones as jiointed out by Lathy, who described and figured 



