260 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



22. Polyptychic rosea Drnce (1882) 



We have compared about twenty specimens of this species. All of them have 

 a subbasal dot on the forewing. In Oberthür's P. rosea var. meloui (1914) this 

 spot is said to be absent. 



23. Polyptychic reussi Strand (1911) 



The good description of this species applies so well to females of P. coryndoni 

 (1903) in the British and Tring Museums that we doubt reussi being a distinct 

 species. None of the coryndoni females, however, have the costal margin of the 

 forewing below dark red, which it is said to be in reussi. 



24. Polyptychic numosae Wallengr. (1860) 



The specimens which have recently come to hand render it almost certain that 

 numosae is the southern subspecies of a more widely distributed species. P. 

 fumosus R. & J. (1903) is another subspecies, and a third, new, subspecies is 

 described below. The three subspecies are all very much alike in colour and 

 pattern, but the male-genitalia present very marked differences in those two 

 subspecies of which the males are known. 



a. P. numosae numosae Wallengr. (1860) 



P. mimosas Wallengr. (1865) ; P. cytis Druee (1882) ; P. consanguinms Dist. (1899). 



The body and wings are distinctly pink. Only the female is known. 

 Hab. Caffraria and Transvaal. 



b. P. numosae fumosus R. & J. (1903) (text-fig. 13) 



P.fumosus pelops Fawc. (1915). 



The hindwing and abdomen of the type-specimen are somewhat greasy ; our 

 figure of the specimen (Revision, pi. 2. fig. 10 <$), therefore, is too dark, the clayish 

 tone which is actually present in the specimen not being apparent in the figure. 

 Mr. W. Feather has obtained a number of specimens of fumosus in British East 

 Africa, at Masongaleni and Kedai, of which two cf c? and three ? ? are now in the 

 Tring Museum. These Si agree in colour and structure with the type of fumosus, 

 two of the ? ? being rather more buff, especially on the hindwing. The harpe of 

 the <S is characterised by ending in a curved hook, proximally to which there is 

 a large tooth (text-fig. 13). The type of fumosus came from Dar-es-Salaam, not 

 from the Rnwenzori Mts. as stated by Lt.-Col. Fawcett. 



Hab. German and British East Africa. 



c. P. numosae hesperus snbsp. nov. (text-fig. 14) 



Greyer than fumosus, with a very slight pink tint in the <$, the underside 

 especially being paler than in fumosus ; the discal line of the forewing rather less 

 oblique than in P. n. numosae. 



Harpe of S ending in two pointed processes of nearly the same size (text- 

 fig. 14). 



Hab. Tsumeb, German South- West Africa, one c? (type) and two ? ? ; also 



