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Abyssinia, Nubia and Arabia. — The larva is above lead-colour with darker dorsal line and orange-yellow 
lateral line, finely dotted with white all over, below the lateral line there is on each segment a small black, 
white-dotted protuberance; the head is orange-yellow and the whole body clothed with short, stiff hairs. Pupa 
light violet-red with purple-red dorsal line and yellow lateral lines. 
6. Sub-Group. 
The ornamental spot is entirely (a 71 ) or almost entirely (?) without proximal black bordering between the costal 
margin and vein 4, but in cellule 3 is proximally bordered or has at least at or somewhat before its inner margin a very 
characteristic black spot on vein 4. The ornamental spot is always red-yellow; in the ? it usually consists of two rows of 
spots, but may also be entirely absent. 
T. antigone is nearly allied to the last species of the preceding subgroup and like it is very variable, 
so that it has received no less than about twenty different names.— antigone Bdv. (19 h) is the winter form: antigone. 
the underside of the hindwing and of the apex of the forewing reddish, flesh-coloured or rarely almost white 
and more or less sprinkled with brown; the hindmarginal stripe of the forewing is entirely absent, or nebulous, 
or even well developed, ab. galathinus Btlr.\ the marginal spots of the hindwing are absent or are distinct, galathinus. 
but free. — phlegetonia Bdo. (19h, 20 a) is the usual summer form: the hindwing is beneath white or white- phlegetonia. 
yellow, not sprinkled; the hindmarginal stripe of the forewing is broad and sharply defined and the marginal xanthus. 
spots of the hindwing are large, ab. xanthus Swinh. (20 a), or even united into a marginal band. — emini Btlr. emini. 
(20 a) is an extreme summer form with very broad marginal band on the hindwing and a broad hindmarginal 
stripe on the forewing, often filling up the cell. — The species occurs everywhere on the continent south of the 
Sahara except in the West African subregion. 
T. metagone Holl. is unknown to me; according fo the description it agrees almost completely with metagone. 
phlegetonia; but the hindwing has in the cd free triangular marginal spots, which are smaller towards the anal 
angle, and an indistinct grey nebulous band from the inner margin to vein 3. Probably a form of antigone 
nearly allied to xanthus. — British East Africa. 
7. Sub-Group. 
This subgroup differs from the preceding solely in having the ornamental spot of the cd ochre-yellow to clay-yellow, 
without reddish admixture (this colour has unfortunately not been correctly reproduced in the figure). The ground-colour 
of the under surface is white. 
T. evenina is the largest species of this group; the eded have a more or less complete hindmarginal 
stripe on the forewing above; the ?? have an orange-yellow ornamental spot composed of two rows of spots, 
but differ from all other ?? of the Evippe Group in that the forewing above has a large black or black-grey 
basal spot, which does not as in other cases run parallel with the hindmargin, forming a stripe, but is directed 
towards the apex and hence covers the cell (ef. the figure 19 f of sipylus-%)] at the apex the basal spot is 
usually sharply and obliquely emarginate; median dot wanting, but behind the middle of the hindmargin is 
placed a large, angular black spot.— sipylus Swinh. (19 f) is the extreme summer form; it is distinguished sipylus. 
by its larger size, the very broad proximal black bordering of the ornamental spot of the cd and the black 
marginal band or large black marginal spots on the upperside of the hindwing. — The normal summer form 
is evenina Wallengr. (19 g); the ground-colour of the under surface is white; the ornamental spot of the cd evenina. 
proximally bordered with black; the marginal spots of the hindwing are small or absent. — casta Gerst. (19 g) casta 
is intermediate between the summer and winter form|; the ornamental spot of the cd has no proximal black 
bordering, but the under surface is white and the marginal spots of the hindwing are distinct. — deidamioides 
Auriv. (15 f) is the winter form; the ornamental spot of the cd has no proximal and only very narrow distal 
bordering; the hindmarginal stripe of the forewing in the cd is absent or very short; the hindwing without 
marginal dots; the under surface always reddish and more or less sprinkled. — The species is distributed from 
Cape Colony on one side to South Angola, on the other to Somaliland. — xantholeucus E. Sharpe, from 
Kavirondo, which is unknown to me in nature, is probably only a form of evenina. 
T. ephyia King (19 g). The wings above with white ground-colour and very slight sulphur-yellow tinge, ephyia. 
at the base not or but very little black-scaled: the large black-grey basal area on the upperside of the forewing, 
which occurs in the ? of evenina , is entirely absent in that of ephyia; the forewing nearly always with small 
black median dot; the ornamental spot is undivided in the ? also, reaches at most to vein 3, is distally narrowly, 
proximally broadly (summer form) or narrowly bordered with black. Only known with certainty from Nubia. 
T. liagore Klug (19 a) is a very rare form only known from Nubia, which Butler sometimes refers liagore. 
to evarne, sometimes to daira; it appears, however, to be most nearly allied to ephyia and may even be an 
extreme dry-season form of this species. The wings above pure white to the base; the ornamental spot 
reaches vein 2, is proximally entirely without black bordering and distally only with very thin and short 
