58 New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Barns 



C. herminia Holland, Bull. Amer. Mus. N.H. xliii, p. 196, pi. viii, 

 fig. 4 (1920) <? ? . 



C. johnstoni Butl. P.Z.S. l" p. 47, pi. 1, fig. 4, $ (1902) (Toro). 

 C. weymeri Suffert, Iris, 17, p. 119 (1904) (Cameroons) $ . 



After a careful study of sixty specimens in the Joicey collection we 

 are forced to conclude that these three forms belong to one variable 

 species, which we are at present unable to separate even into local 

 races. 



A series of these three forms shows much variation, and the same 

 applies to the females. A female in the Joicey collection from the 

 Grose-Smith coll. is labelled " Type " and is from the same locality as 

 the $ type. No description of this specimen was ever published. 

 Dr. Holland, loc. cit., has recently described the ? . 



Variation in $ : — 



The black distal area of the fore wing varies in width and may not 

 reach beyond cellule 5. The brown distal band varies in width and 

 the spots in 3 and 4 are sometimes reduced ; it also varies in colour 

 from yellow-brown in typical herminia to creamy-white in typical 

 weymeri. Similar variation occurs in the pattern of the hind wing. 



The underside may be pale ochreous with lighter discal band and 

 basal spots, dark brown with pale distal margin and whitish basal 

 spots, white basal area and white submarginal markings, or entirely 

 dark ochreous-brown, intermediates occurring between these. Most 

 specimens from Uganda have the basal markings but little lighter than 

 the ground-colour (f. johnstoni) . 



Variation in ? : — 



The white discal band may be almost a line as in the form 

 described, or it may be 3 mm. broad in cellule 2 of the fore wing 

 with larger spots anteriorly, and correspondingly broad on the hind 

 wing. The length of the fore wing may vary from 36 mm. to 42 mm. 

 The distal yellow band varies in width and the black spots in size ; the 

 colour varies from yellow-brown to nearly white, and in one specimen 

 the black spots on both wings are edged with white proximally and 

 without any yellow colour at all. 



The underside varies from ochreous to grey-brown and grey-white. 



The female without yellow markings and with pale underside 

 belongs to the f. johnstoni and needs description. The specimen 

 figured by Butl. loc. cit. fig. 5, is a form of lurida ? . 



