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Xe^ilielc churnbii Kirby, l.r. (pai'tiiu) : Mab., Ann. Sue Ent. Fiann: p. 2^6 (.1»7'J) (Madag.) ; Waterh., 

 Aid Ident. Ins. ii. t. 141. f. 3 (^J) (1884) ; Saalm., Lpi>. .\Iadag. p. 133. n. 309 (1884) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. GTO. n. 7 (1892). 



Xcphih: (!) chanihu, Butler, Cint. Ent. ii. p. 393 (1879) (Madag.). 



Xq/Iielf moqiheus, Saalm ilUer, I.e. p. 133. n. 310 (1884). 



(J ?. Like comma, but the white spot anteriorly thinner iuid posteriorly rather 

 more dilated distad (PI. LXIV. f. 14). 



The reddisli tint of Kii-by's type is due to discoloration ; (Continental comma as 

 well as other 2\ephele assume the same tint. 



llah. Madagascar. 



In the Tring Museum : — 



OU (Jc?, 40 ¥ ? of f, denim from: Sierra Leone; Ogriigu, Niger; BengucUa, i. 

 (Penrice) ; Cape Colony ; Natal ; Nyassaland ; Kiloa ; Dar-es-Salaam ; Kiknyn 

 Escarpment, Brit. E. Afr. (Doherty) ; Madagascar. 



'Z\ Si,\\ ? ? off. comma from : (Sierra Leone : (4old Coast ; Ogrugu, Niger; 

 Beuguella, i. (Penrice) ; Natal ; Zomba, Likoma, and Baudawe, Nyassaland ; 

 Kikuya Escarpment, Brit. E. Afr. (Doherty) ; Masindi, Uganda, i. (Ansorge). 



1 c?, I ? of f. loc. cliaroha from : Madagascar. 



478. Nephele funebris. 



Sphinx fiinebris Fabricius, Ent. Si/st. in. 1. p. 371. n. 47 (1893) (Guinea) ; Auriv., Ent. Tidskr, 



xvi'u. p. 152. n. 81 (1897). 

 *Zoiiilki viridescrn.i Walker, Li.it Lrp. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 192. n. 1 (1851!) (partim ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 *Xtphrl(' infernalis Kirby, Trams. Ent. Sue. Land. p. 239, 244 (1877) (Ashanti ;— Mus. Dublin) ; 



Waterh., Aid Ident. Ins. ii. t. 141. f. 4 (1884) ; Kii-by, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 080. n. 13 (1892) ; 



Auriv., Ent. Tidskr. xiii. p. 183. D. 234 (1892) (Kamerun). 

 Nephele })eiiens, Karsch, Ent. Naehr. xvii. p. 297. n. 15 (1891) (Cameroons). 



No more appropriate name, we think, could be found for this insect than 

 iii/emalis, considering the time we spent over it without coming to a very satisfac- 

 tory result; however, the name must sink as synonym of J'lttiel/ris. The type of 

 fniifhri.'i is in Cojienhagen. Dr. Meinert has kindly sent us a [(holograph of it, 

 which shows it to be the same as infer nali.i. The species occurs in West and 

 Eaht Africa in a form without cons])iruous white stigma, and also in a form 

 with wl]ite spots. On the Upper Congo another dichromatic insect is found 

 whicli seems to intergraduate with ordinary funebris, though it has, iu the 

 spotted form, an entirely diflerent stigma. We treat this Congo insect as a 

 BDbspecies of funebris ; but we must express our doubt of the two being 

 specifically the same. 



i ? . Black lateral patches of abdomen large, proximal ones rectangular, not 

 narrowed above as in bipartita ; underside of palpus scaled white and brown, 

 coDtrasting with the uniformly clayish buff breast and underside of abdomen. 



Combs well developed. Korewing similar in shape to that of comma ; greenisii 



above in fresh S]K'(tiniens ; a faint shadowy band from middle of costa to outer 

 iriiirgiii just before angle. 



//"/;. Aethiopiau llegion, exclusive of the Malagassic hiubregion. 



a. .N. j'linebriii Jn/iebris. 



fiphiiu funebris FubriciuH, /.'•. 

 *Xtniilia vircHrens Walker, I.e. (Natal). 

 *Sephele in/Krmilis Kirby, I.e. 



