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vein 4, so;iie minute whitish points beyond it on. costa ; subtermiual 

 line blackish, somewhat diffused on inner side, arising from ajjex, 

 incurved below apes, double and filled in greyish below vein 5 ; 

 a series of black points just before termen ; cilia with a fine grey 

 line at base. Hind wing black-brown ; an obliquely curved medial 

 line slightly defined on outer side by greyish ; a pure white apical 

 patch extending to vein 4, its inner edge angled outwards at vein ; 

 an oblique whitish subtermiual line from vein 3 to termen at 

 vein 1 ; a blackish terminal line and greyish lines at base and 

 near tips of cilia on the dark area. Underside grey-brown with 

 dark suffusion before the subtermiual line, the terminal areas grey ; 

 fore wing with dark discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and 

 slightly sinuous subtermiual line with some dark suffusion beyond 

 it on inner half; hind wing with dark discoidal striga, curved 

 medial line, and minutely waved postmedial and subtermiual lines. 



Hah. Gold Coast, liibianaha {Sinirrdl), 1 c3" ; S. jSTigeeia, Lagos 

 {StracTian), 1 $ , Ebute Meta (Boag), 1 § , Old Calabar (Cockburn, 

 Crompton, Sampson), 2 c? , 5 $ , Sapele {Sampson), 1 d , Ilesha 

 (f/umfrey), 1 <S , 3 $; Natal, Durban {Gaeinzius, Gooch, Leigh, 

 Clark), 5^,1$ type. Kvj-). 64-76 millim. 



Larva. Dark brown mottled with pale reddish ; traces of a palo 

 dorsal line defined by dark brown except on the five anterior 

 somites, slightly expanding at middle of somites ; 4th somite with 

 a redder subdorsal patch ; traces of reddish lateral and stigmatal 

 lines except on the five anterior somites ; stigmata oehreous defined 

 by dark brown ; 11th somite with a pair of dorsal prominences 

 behind ; head oehreous mottled with red. 



d. Thorax and wings of male normal, 

 ai. Hind wing with yellow apical patch. 



a?. Fore wing with double nearly straight line 



beyond the antemedial line ])rcBsians. 



h'^. Fore wing with single waved line beyond the 

 antemedial line. 

 a^. Fore wing with the medial area suifused with 



blue- wh ite poiiopaota. 



P. Fore wing with the medial area not sufTiised 



with blue- whit e radama. 



c^. Fore wing without line beyond the antemedial 

 line. 

 «3. Fore wing with the basal area and a post- 

 medial patch on costal area deep chocolate- 

 brown intercisa. 



h^. Fore wing with the basal area and postmedial 

 costal area not chocolate-brown. 

 a^. Fore wing with conical postmedial white 



patch on costal area chry&opera. 



b*. Fore wing without conical postmedial 

 VThite patch on costal area. 

 0.5. Hind wing with the yellow patch on 



apical hair of termen broad dejeaiii. 



b^. Hind wing with the yellow, patch on 

 apical part of termen much narrower. 

 a^. Fore wing wiih the ante- and post- 

 medial lines waved czea. 



