( 562 ) 

 485. Nephele oenopion. 



Orneux uennjiwii Hubner, Siiniml. E.i: Sfhiii. ii. t. 159 (^IWOti — ;■)■ 



ZuniVia netiii/iiiin, Boisduval, S/ier. Gen. Lep. Ilil. i. p. 149. u. 18 (1875) (Mad. ; Maurit. ; Boui-b. ; 

 '' Xatal " alia spec. V). 



cJ?. Forewiug with two bauds; oue subbasal, edged with white proxiiuiiUy 

 and distall}", the other discal, (i or more mm. from lower angle of cell at W, 

 straight, or slightly concave jiro.ximally, widest in front, its inner edge wliito, 

 outer edge also white, or jiale cinnamon : I'ringe of hinder margin white between 

 the bands. Xo stigma, or only a small white spot. 



Palpus concolorons with under surface of body, first segment with a small 

 l)ale lateral spot. 



JI(t/j. Aethiopian Kegion. 



Three subspecies : 



a. JS'. ocHOpion iw/to/i/on. 



Orneuti oPHopion Hiibner, l.r, 



Deili'phila oeiinphm, Boisduval, FiiiiHe Mail, limirh. p. 75. n. 8 (183.'i) (Bourbon ; Mauritius). 



PliHuiiipchis Oduipidii, Walker, Lhl Li-p. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 182. n. 14 (185fi). 



Znnilki iienopimi, id., l.i\ xxxi. p. '.Vd (1864) (Bourbou ; Madagascar) ; Mab., .1h». Sor. Enl. Fraiif- 



p. 296 (1879) (Madag.) ; Vins., Pap. Hn„rbi,n p. 13 (1891). 

 Nephele atnnpinn (!), Butler, 'I'niug. Zoul, Sue. Land. ix. p. lW2. u. 2 (1877) (Bourb. ; Madag.). 

 yephele oenopion, Kirby. Trann. KnI. Sot: f.ond. p. 239 (1877) (Madagascar) ; Saalm., f.iji. .Vniliiij. 



p. 133. n. 308 (1884) (Nossi-be); Kirby, Cot. Lep. llel. i. p 679. n. 3 (1892) (Madag.; Bourbon). 



c? ? . Discal band of forewiug broad, the dark line within it thin, dividing 

 the band into a broad proximal a)ul a thin outer jiortion, the latter only a 

 third the width of the former at R' and not white, as is the jyro.ximal edge of 

 the band. 



Ilfib. Bourbon ; Mauritius ; Madagascar. 



In the Tring Museum 2 c? J, 1 ? from Bourbon. 



f>. y. ocnujiion .■<tii:ticii subsjj. nov. 



cJ. Like the preceding, but forewiug with a small but distinct rounded 

 white stigma. 



Huh. (frande C'omore. 



Ju the Tring Museum 1 i from (irandr Comoro (/'///e). 



c. -\. oeiwjiioii. contincnti.f subsp. nov. 



Zoniliii oenopion, Boisduval, in Deleg., )'«//. A/r. Au.itr. p. 595. n. Ill (1847) (Xatal : iioni. imlvtri: ; 



hari: spec, 'i an rume V) ; Mab., Hull. Hoc. Ent. Fmnre p. 221 (1890) (Congo). 

 Nephele oenopion, Schaus & Clem., Sierra Leone Lip. p. 19 (1893). 



c? ?. Somewhat smaller than the ju'eceding : discal band of forewing narrower, 

 the dark line within it broader, dividing tlie baud into two lines, of whicli the 

 external one is not much thinner than the inner oue, and is also more or less white. 

 Few specimens have a minute white stigma ou the forewing. 



//ad. West Africa, apparently not rare. We have not seen specimens from the 

 eastern side of the Continent, where the species occui-s without doubt. 



In the Tring Museum 1'.) c?c?, l:i ? ? from : Sier)a Leone, fi///e, June 1896 

 (('apt. tStevens) ; Agberi, Niger, 9. xi. liiol (Dr. Ansorge). 



