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vivid green with yellow lateral line and curved yellow transverse line on segment 3, beneath silver-white. 
Pupa greenish. Bourbon. — nana Obertli. is a smaller local race, which occurs on the Seychelles. 
P. manlius F. (— phorbanta Bdv.). The discal band of the forewing in both sexes only composed of three 
spots (in cellules 3, 4 and in the cell); that of the hindwing short, only covering the base of cellules 2 and 3 and 
there obliquely cut off; both wings above with blue submarginal spots; the forewing of the has, however, only 
very few of these. — Mauritius. 
P. nireus. Forewing above at most with two blue submarginal spots in cellules 7 and 8; rarely in the 
$ with several yellow ones; the blue (<$) or greenish ($) median band is 2—>7 mm broad at the hindmargin of 
the forewing and 4—12 mm in the middle of the hindwing, and is only a little widened posteriorly; the spot in 
cellule 2 of the hindwing does not completely cover the base of the cellule and the narrow spot in cellule lc does 
not reach the cell; forewing beneath almost always entirely without submarginal spots. — nireus L. (5 a). Median 
band of the forewing above well developed, the spots of cellules 2—4 obliquely cut off distally; the discal 
spot in cellule 2 of the hindwing is very long and produced farther towards the anal angle than the spot 
in cellule 1 c. Sierra Leone to Angola and Uganda. — lyaeus Dbl. (5 b). The median band narrower, but 
complete; the spot in cellule 2 of the hindwing is shorter and does not reach so far towards the anal 
angle as the one in 1 c. Larva above green, beneath whitish, with a whitish oblique longitudinal streak 
at each side on segments 7 and 8 and a girdle of ring-shaped spots on the third segment. Cape Colony 
to Angola and British East Africa. J-ab. aelyus Suff. only differs from lyaeus in the discal spot in cellule 
1 a of the forewing being entirely wanting and the one in cellule 1 b divided into two; German East Africa. 
— pseudonireus Fldr. (— donaldsoni Em. Sharpe ) (6 a). The median band is altogether absent on the fore¬ 
wing or is only represented by a few very small spots; on the hindwing it is formed as in lyaeus. Somali¬ 
land and Abyssinia. — aristophontes Oberth. The A only differs from nireus in that the discal spots of cel¬ 
lules 2 and 3 are longer and sharply pointed distally; the $ on the contrary is quite different, the submar¬ 
ginal spots of both wings above and beneath are well developed and yellowish, the median band of the upper 
surface is greenish yellow and the ground-colour of both wings brown. Great Comoro Island. 
P. sosia R. & J. Forewing above in cellules 1 b—8 with distinct, small, usually double submarginal 
dots, but beneath without large submarginal spots; the median band formed almost as in nireus, though 
the spot in cellule 2 covers the base of the cellule, but is more produced anally than the spot in 1 c, which 
does not reach the cell. — Sierra Leone to the Congo region and Uganda. 
P. aethiops R. & J. Forewing above without blue submarginal dots in cellules 1 b—6, but beneath 
with large yellowish submarginal spots in cellules 1 b—4; the blue median band of the upper surface'of almost 
equal breadth on the forewing and distally indented at the veins, on the hindwing narrower than in brontes 
and not covering the base of cellule 2, the spot in 1 c quite short, not reaching the cell. — Somaliland 
and Abyssinia. 
P. thuraui Karsch. Both wings above black-brown without median band, but with blue submarginal 
spots and the forewing also in the middle between the apex of the cell and the distal margin with three small 
blue spots in cellules 3, 4 and 6; forewing beneath with four large yellowish submarginal spots in cellules 
1 b—4. — German East Africa: Ubena. 
P. cyclopis R. & J. The median band of the upper surface much narrowed and on the forewing 
broken up into spots; the spot in cellule 2 of the hindwing does not cover the base of the cellule and the spot 
in 1 c does not reach the cell; forewing beneath with large yellow submarginal spots in 1 b—4. Perhaps 
only a form of thuraui. — Nyassaland. 
P. bromius. The blue or greenish median band of the upper surface is broad, 10—14 mm. broad 
at the hindmargin of the forewing, 10—17 mm. in the middle of the hindwing and distinctly widened pos¬ 
teriorly; the spot in cellule 2 of the hindwing always completely covers the base of the cellule and the spot- 
in 1 c is very long and always reaches the cell. — bromius Dbl. (5 b, c). The green-blue spot in the cell of 
the forewing above reaches basad at least to the middle of cellule 2; forewing beneath without large yellowish 
submarginal spots, at the most with a few small spots near to the margin. Sierra Leone to the Congo region 
and Equatoria. — chrapkowskii Suff. (5 c). The blue spot in the cell of the forewing above reaches basad 
about to the middle of cellule 2; forewing beneath with large yellowish submarginal spots in cellules 1 b—4. 
British East Africa: Nairobi. — brontes Godm. (5 a). The blue median band of the upper surface is some¬ 
what narrower than in bromius and the spot in the cell of the forewing reaches basad at most to vein 3; 
forewing beneath with large yellowish submarginal spots in cellules 1 b—4. German and British East Africa. 
nana. 
manlius. 
nireus. 
lyaeus. 
aelyus. 
pseudo¬ 
nireus. 
aristo¬ 
phontes. 
sosia. 
aethiops. 
thuraui. 
cyclopis. 
bromius. 
chrapkows- 
kii. 
brontes. 
Demoleus Group. 
Abdomen not reaching the anal angle. Hindwing on both sides at the anal angle in cellule 1 c with a 
black, blue and red eye-spot and at least beneath also with a similar eye-spot at the costal margin in cellule 7. 
Wings blackish with light yellow median band and light yellow submarginal and marginal spots. Larva with a 
