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Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area siifFused with fuscous. 



Ab. 2. Eore wing with the medial and postmedial areas suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing wirh fuscous mixed throughout and with black 

 patch in submedian interspace beyond antemedial line. 



Hah. Be. E. Afeica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 (^ ; Eechtjan aland, 

 L. N'gami (Lur/ard), 1 ci; Transvaal (Cholmlei/), 3 2 i Waterberg 

 (Zutrzencha), 1 § ; jSTatal, Stanger (Ddvln), 1 2 > Estcourt (linfch- 

 inson), 1 2 , Durban {Marley, Dcdton), 3 $ : Cape Colony, Annshaw 

 {Miss F. Barrett), 1 J. Kiy. 30-32 milim. 



/;. Antermfe of male minutely ciliated. 

 a^. Hind wing orange. 



a-. Hind wing witli the basal area not suffused with 

 brown. 

 cfi. Hind wing witliout brown streaks on inner 

 area. 

 a4. Hind wing with the costal area not suffused 

 with brown. 

 «5. Fore wing sliort and broad, witli a briglit 



green band beyond the postmedial line ... ephesioides. 

 Ip. Fore wing longer and narrower, witliout 

 green band beyond the postmedial line. 

 a6. Tegulse with green scales mixed on basal 

 half. 

 «". Fore wing without dark shade in discal 



fold from postmedial line to termen . clonans. 

 h\ Fore wing with faint dark shade in 

 discal fold from postmedial line to 



termen tripluenopms. 



Ifi. TegulfE without green scales mixed metachrysa. 



lA. Hind wing with the costal area suffused with •■ 



brown quadripuiicta, 



Ifi. Hind wing with brown streaks on inner area... amahilis. 

 I". Hind wing with the basal area suffused with 



brown accipicns. 



h^. Hind wing fulvous brown, the apical area suffused 



with black viridafa. 



c. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown 'pulou-. 



6757. Blenina ephesioides. (Plate CLXXXV. fig. 14.) 



Blenina ephesioides, Pag. Jahrb. Xass. Ver. xxsix. p. 136, pi. x. f. 4 (1886). 

 Blenina hrachyptera, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 544 (1905). 



$ . Head and tegulse green ; palpi banded with black ; tegulte 

 edged with dark brown ; thorax reddish brown ; pectus yellowish ; 

 legs yellowish and brown, the fore and raid tibiae with green 

 patches; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface yellowish except 

 towards extremity. Fore wing short and broad, the apex and 

 termen rounded ; reddish brown ; basal area suffused with green 

 except towards inner margin ; a double diffused black subbasal line 

 from costa fo vein 1 with some whitish on its outer edge; 

 antemedial line black defined by green on inner side, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then excurved and angled inwards on 



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