( 559 ) 



tu apex of wiug ; median area proximally of oblique baud tawiiy-olive, traversed 

 by the posterior portions of the discal Hues ; antemedian pair of lines generally 

 merged together to a blackish band, which is carved costad in front, constricted 

 in cell ; between it and base there are a thin line, a broad patch and a small 

 basal spot, separated by tawny-olive scaling, bnt often merged together. Stigma 

 represented by a minute dot (there occurs probably a form with distinct stigma, 

 as in most species of Xcphele). 



llnh. West and East Africa. 



In the Tring Museum cJc^, 3 ? ? from: Ugrugu, Niger; Yakusu, Congo, 

 vii. lOiiO (K. Smith) ; Bopoto, Congo (K. Smith) ; Delagoa Bay ; Dar-es-Salaam. 



480. Nephele discifera. 



*Ne/jlielej>eiieus(Ci:),ioTmiidULifi:niKdirsch,Eiit.Narhi: xvii. p. '2iJ8 (1891) (Cainerooiis ; — Mus. 



Berlin). 

 Xcjihele peiicus var. a. Nepli. p., forma disrifera, Kirby, Cut. Ltp. llet. i. p. (JSO. sub n. 11 (1892) 



(C'ameroons). 

 *Nqjhele utinoinaculata Rothschild, Nuv. Zimu,. i. p. 88 (1894) (Upp. Congo ;— Mus. Tring) ; id., 



?.t,-. ii. t. 9. f. 8(?) (189.5). 



c??. Upperskle very uniform in colour. No distinct lines on fore wiug; a 

 minute stigma; a rouuded orange-tawny patch at hinder margin just before 

 middle : distal marginal area grey, limited by the irregular line which runs 

 from apex to hinder angle ; this line very indistinct in this species. 



Umki-shh' of body tawny olive TRidgway, Nonmnd. Colours t. 3. n. 17), 

 l»alpus below with grey and olive scales, whitish at the sides. 



llah. West Africa : Oameroons ; Congo. 



In the Tring Museum 1 cf, 1 ? from the Upper Congo, the i caught at 

 Yakusu, Stanley Falls, iu July lOUU (Rev. Kenred Smith). 



4.S1. Nephele peneus. 



Sjihiiix [ifiieux Cramer, Pap. E.rut. i. p. 139. t. 8K. f. n (1770) (Sieri-a Leone) : Goeze, Eiit. Beijtr. 



iii. 2. p. 220. n. .i8 (1780). 

 Sjihhi.r didijma Fabricius, Hper. Ins. ii. p. 148. n. 41 (1781) (partim) ; id., Mint. Inn. ii. p. 9G. u. 45 



(1787)(partim) ; Gmel., Sjist. Nat. i. 5. p. 2381. n. 79 (1790) (partim) ; Fabr., Ent. .S'ysi.iii. 1. 



p. 371. n. 48 (1793) (partim). 

 SithiiujjeiMcus (!), Fabricius, I. La:, (.sub syn.). 

 Xrphele didi/ma, Hubner, Ver:.. bek. ScJiiii. p. 133. n. 1433 (1822) (partim). 



<? ? . Black lateral patches of abdomen large, that of third segment as distinct 

 as the jiatch of the fourth ; palpus with a large second segment, underside scarcely 



paler than breast. Combs of spurs large. Forewiug less elongate than in the 



iillied species, distal margin strongly convex; a blackish shadowy band from middle 

 of costal margin to hinder angle, posteriorly a little more proximal than in bipartita; 

 urea outsid(! this band traversed in middle by the third discal line, which is dentate 

 and is followed by a fourth line, also dentate, corresjionding to the jiostdisco- 

 subraarginal line of otlier species, the halfmoons between these two lines brown or 

 olive tawny, the one between SO' and It' large; three white dots (PI. LXIV. 

 f. 0. T), namely 1 + 3, 2, and 4 ; often 1 -f 3 -f 4, and 2 separate ; seldom 

 i! + 1 + 3 + 4 ; (jr 2 + 1 + 3, and 4 separate; 1 and 3 apjiareiiUy never 

 Hcjiarate; Komctinies all three spots obscured, having assumed the ground-colour 

 of the wing, seldom all absent. Discal lines of underside of forcwing curved 

 twice, S-shuped. 



