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A MAURIS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
reuteri. 
dir a. 
inferna. 
egialea. 
echeria. 
oscarus. 
underside of the hindwing in cellules 6 and 7 at the middle of the costal margin are entirely absent and that 
the mealy spot of the cf is yellowish and lighter than the surrounding ground-colour. Congo region. — 
reuteri Strand is unknown to me, but appears only to differ from the typical form in having a wedge-shaped 
discal spot in cellule 3 of the forewing. Cameroons. 
A. dira Neav has the wings shaped as in the preceding species, but bears like those which follow 
a punctiform spot in the cell of the forewing, widely separated from the discal spot of cellule 2; the latter is 
large and rectangular, the spot in cellule 4 is absent or very small; the hindwing is marked quite as in liecate 
and bears a white spot in cellule 7 at the middle of the costal margin. Uganda. 
A. inferna Btlr. (24 b) has the spot in the cell of the forewing rather large, but well separated from 
that in cellule 2; the discal spot in cellule 4 is placed much nearer to the distal margin than the one in 
cellule 5 and does not touch or scarcely touches the latter; the spot in cellule 1 b is absent; the basal area 
of the hindwing is white or yellowish white, usually only reaching vein 2, rarely the apex of the cell, but 
often covering the base of cellules 4—6—7; submarginal spot 3 on the forewing is larger than the others. 
Ashanti, Cameroons, Fernando Po; French Congo. 
A, egialea Cr. (25 c) is very similar to the preceding species, but differs in having the basal area of 
the hindwing yellowish and distally indistinctly defined; it usually reaches the apex of the cell and the 
proximal end of the mealy spot of the cf; the submarginal spots of the forewing (in 1 b 2, 3, 6 and 7) are 
all rounded and of almost equal size. Sierra Leona to Angola and Aruwimi. The specimen figured is a 
somewhat aberrant form from Uganda. 
A. dannfelti Auriv. The forewing is marked almost exactly as in the last two species and discal spots 
4 and 5 of the forewing are short, almost quadrate, and spot 4 is placed so much nearer to the distal 
margin that it does not touch spot 5 or only with its proximal angle; it is distinguished from all the other 
species of this subgroup by having the basal area of the hindwing pure white, distally sharply defined and so 
large as to extend far beyond the apex of the cell: hence the dark marginal band is at vein 4 only about 6 
mm. in breadth. Congo region. 
A. hyalites Btlr. (24 b) The spot in the cell of the forewing is always separated by an interspace 
from the discal spot in cellule 2 and the spot in cellule lb is absent; it differs from the similarly marked 
species in that discal spots 4 and 5 of the forewing are elongated and touch one another for at least 2 / 3 of 
their length; the basal area of the hindwing is white, at the inner margin and distally yellowish, and reaches 
at least to the apex of the cell; the mealy spot of the cf is yellowish. From the Cameroons to Angola and Equatoria. 
Echeria Group. 
The species of this group are distinguished by having the light area of the hindwing not reaching the base, but 
forming a broader or narrower transverse band, which is sharply defined at both sides and usually yellow or yellowish. 
The forewing is marked almost alike in all the species; discal spots la, lb and 3 are widely separated and those in cellules4 
and 5 are small, quadrate or rounded and almost always separated, the spot in cellute 4 being placed much nearer to the 
distal margin; the submarginal spots are well developed. 
A. echeria. The dark basal area of the hindwing reaches at least to vein 7 and is 5—6 mm in breadth; 
second palpal joint with punctiform white spot; abdomen beneath as dark as the marginal band of the hind¬ 
wing; forewing nearly always with submarginal spot in cellule 8; in the cf the mealy spot at the anal angle 
of the hindwing is small, about 3 mm. in length, and the last dorsal plate of the abdomen is scarcely incised 
at the end. — echeria Stoll. (24 c). The yellow transverse band of the hindwing is about 10 mm. in breadth 
and reaches ihe apex of the cell; all or almost all the spots on the upper surface are yellow. Larva black 
with fine blue dorsal line, interrupted yellow subdorsal line and orange-yellow lateral line; spiracles with a 
blue ring; 2nd, 4th, 6th, 11th and 12th segment with a pair of short fleshy filaments. From the Cameroons 
to South and East Africa, - steckeri Kheil has the transverse band of the hindwing narrower, only 6 mm. 
in breadth, but otherwise agrees with the typical form. Abyssinia — jacksoni E. Sharpe (24 c) differs from 
the typical form in having all the spots of the forewing white and the numerous spots of the hindwing yellowish 
above, white beneath. German and British East Africa, Uganda and Abyssinia — oscarus Thurau (== prominens 
Griinb.) (24 d) differs in having the median band of the hindwing narrower, scarcely extending beyond vein 2; 
the hindwing has above only three white submarginal spots and the submarginal spot in cellule 8 of the 
forewing is wanting; in this and in the somewhat more elongate white spot on the second joint of the palpi 
oscarus approaches the following species. Uganda. 
