( 568 ) 

 48C). Nephele rosae. 



' Xijilu'le rvsae Butler, Pror. Zool. Sor. Land. p. 14. n. :iO (ISyfi) (Boma ; — Mus. Brit.) ; iJ., Tniii>:. 

 Zuol. Soc. Loud. ix. p. r,-J2. n. 4. t. 94. f. S (1877) ; Dew., Millh. Miinch. Ent. Vei: iii. p. ib 

 (1879) (Chinohoxo) : Druoe, in Moloney, WeM Afi: Forestry p. 493. n. Hi (1887): Kirby, 

 Cat. Lip. Uet. i. p. r,79. n. 4 (1892) (Boma). 



cJ?. Similar to oeiiojiioii. Pale discal liand of forcwing bruatl, its white 

 ]ivoximal border-line oul}- 4 mm. from lower angle of cidl at R' ; tLe isubbasal band 

 not edged with white, nor is the fringe of the hinder margin white between snbbasal 

 and discal bands ; a thin, longitudinal, comma-shaped stigma, which is sometimes 

 reduced to a dot, seldom absent (from our only East African individual). Underside 

 of body paler than in oenopion ; first segment of palpns with white scales. 



Hub. Africa; a]iparently rarer in the east than in the west of the Continent. 



No representative known from Madagascar and neighbouring islands. 



In the Tring Museum 16 i S , 9 ¥? from: Sierra Leone; (Jld Calabar; 

 Bopoto and Yakusu, Congo, vii. (K. Smith) ; Nguelo, Germ. E. Africa. 



487. Nephele rectangulata. 



*Xepl(ele rrHtinij'diitn Rothschild, [ris vii. p. 3UL). n. 12 (1894) (Sierra Leone ; — coll. Staudinger) ; 

 id., Nov. Znoi,. ii. t. 9. f. 7 ( (J) (189.^). 



c??. Comb of short terminal spur of hindtibia not heavy. The species is 

 easily recognised by the angle of about 90 formed at hinder angle of forewing by 

 two white lines, one submarginal, slightly curved, ending at lip of wing, the other 

 running straight across the wing to costal margin, entering the cell at lower angle. 

 The hindwing and under surface are brighter tawuy in our fresh ? than in the c? 

 figured ; the submarginal line is too obviously dentate in the figure. 



Uab. Sierra Leone. 



In the Tring Museum 1 cj, 1 ? from Sierra Leone. 



4s8. Nephele aequivaleus. 



*l'utli!iloi iitii'iiridinx Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. .U. viii. p. 191. n. .0 (185G) (Sit-rra Leone ;— Mus. 



Brit.). 

 *Zoiiilia :eOu Boisduval, /.<■. |i. 148. n. llj (187.')) (= aeijniraleiis 'i ; Sierra Leone ; — Mus. Brit.). 

 Xfjihrlr iiri/iiinilnix, Butler, Trims. Ziiid. Sue. Loud. ix. p. 1)22. n. 1 (1877) (Sierra Leone) ; Druce, in 



Moloney, Wcxt Afr. Forrxlr;/ p. 49.S. n. lo (1887) ; Mbschl., .ildi. Scid: .\ali<rf. des. xv. p. 71. 



D. im (IH9I)) (Accra) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. llrt. i. p. 1)79. u. 1 (1892) (Sierra Leone) ; Schaus i>i 



Clem., Sierra Leone Lep. p. 19 (1893). 



S ? . The largest species of the genus. Combs of spurs and of tarsi strongly 

 developed. Hindtarsus exactly twice the length of the tibia, first segment as long 

 as the four others together. Abdomen without distinct black side-]iatches. Fore- 

 wing witii a black band from costal margin near end of cell to end of M- ; jxistdisco- 

 huliniarginal line almost evenly curved from tij) of wing to tip of M- ; one discal 

 line, beginning at costal margin midway between obliijue band and ape.x of wing. 



r^ . Tenth Kt(,'rnite rather shortrr than in the othei' species, lUid the liarpc more 

 iilirn]itly hookid. 



//fiO. (,'ontincnlul Tropical Africa: Sieira Leone lo I he Congo and East Africa. 



In the Tring Museum 7 r^ cf, •"> ? ? from : Siena Leone : (Jold Cosist ; Ogrngu, 

 Niger ; Dar-es-Salaam. 



