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Secondaries somewhat darker than primaries, the base (especially 

 towards inner margin) more or less covered with olive-yellow 

 hairs ; a submarginal patch of yellow scales above and below 

 vein 5. 



Underside. — Primaries. Hyaline spots as upperside, but ground- 

 colour, especially on costa, apex, and outer margin heavily scaled 

 with ochreous ; a faint submarginal dark line and a narrow outer 

 marginal line of creamy- white crossed by the dark veins. 



Secondaries. Ground-colour along inner margin in areas la, lb 

 as upperside, remainder ochreous-brown, somewhat darker on 

 costal and anterior part of outer margins ; the following creamy- 

 white spots outlined in black : — one above and one below cell- 

 middle (the latter darker and indistinct); an elongate discocellular 

 spot ; a discalrow of seven spots crossed by dark veins, extending 

 from costa around cell-end to vein 2, ending in a separated eighth 

 spot in area 1 c ; the same white marginal line as in primary. 



Fringe pale brown, inclining to whitish on anal angle ; palpi 

 whitish, tipped dusky; thorax above covered with ochreous- 

 yellow hairs ; abdomen dusky, with some hairs of same colour 

 especially at tip. 



Length of primary 13*5 mm. 



The female of this species is a little larger (length of primary 

 15 mm.), and has the yellow submarginal row on upperside better 

 developed. 



Type S in the British Museum, from the Chambezi valley, 

 8.V.08. 



Type 5 i Q Hope Coll., Oxford : Chambezi valley, 15.V.08. 



Described from four males and two females. 



This striking species seems to be confined to high plateau 

 country, and is distinctly scarce. 



Padkaona zeno Trim. 



A common forest species in the plateau and in Katanga. I did 

 not meet with it in the Luangwa valley. 



Gegenes occulta Trim. 



I took this species sparingly in the Fort Jameson district 

 and Luangwa valley, iii., iv., and on the Alala plateau, ix. 



Gegenes hottentota Latr. 



A common species everywhere, especially so in the Chambezi 

 valley. The form obumbrata Trim., occurs side by side with it, 

 and three or four individuals are intermediate between the two, 

 having the bright ochreous colour of that form but lacking the 

 sexual badges. It seems impossible to separate the females in a 

 large series, and until more evidence is forthcoming it seems 

 wiser to keep the two forms together. 



, Chapra mathias Fabr. 

 Ubiquitous and on the wing all the vear. 



