82 South African Heterocera 
Mr. L. B. Prout, who kindly compared one of my specimens, the 
female, sent me the following information on the South African 
specimen: “The pale parts are whiter (less pink), the proximal band 
of hind-wing more angulated, the distal less lunulate; proximal red 
part of eye-spot of fore-wing broader, eye-spot of fore-wing somewhat 
more elongate. Beneath there are similar differences and the medial 
line of hind-wing as well as fore-wing crosses the middle of the 
eye-spot (or rather is interrupted by it). Oberthur’s figure has wing- 
length 80 mm.” 
My two specimens, male and female, were bred by the Rev. Father 
J. O’Neil at Salisbury; the male pupated on 7th March, 1915, and 
emerged on 12th December, 1915; the female emerged on 7th 
December. Both were kindly given to me by Father O'Neil. 
Length of fore-wing in male 85 mm., female 70 mm.; but I know 
that bigger females have been bred. 
In the male the fore-wing is more produced on the apex, the outer- 
margin is more concave and the lobe on the hind-wing more pronounced. 
The post-medial line does not cross the ocellus as in the female, but 
just touches it. 
IMBRASIA EPIMETHEA, Drury, sub-sp. ERTLI, Rebel. 
Imbrasia epimethea, Drury, Ill. Exe. ent. ITI, t. 13, f. 1 (1773). 
sub-sp. ertli, Rebel, Ann. K. K. Naturhist. 
Hofmus. XIX, p. 67, pl. ii (1904). 
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The typical form is from West Africa, the sub-species from Nyassa- 
land, but two specimens, a male and female, bred at Salisbury, were 
presented to me by Father J. O'Neil. 
The South African specimens are much smaller, the lines of both 
wings are more white, less pinkish and the stigma in both wings less 
pronounced, but present; the anal angle of the hind-wing is more 
produced but less than in the typical form ; the legs are not brown, 
but dark brown ; in the @ the costa of the fore-wing is more straight, 
median costal patch more broadened basally, and in the hind-wing the 
anti-medial line is less angled at la, while the ocellus does not touch 
the anti-medial line, 
