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HENOTESIA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
elisi. 
evanida. 
phaea. 
teratia. 
simonsii. 
lacus. 
centralis. 
haroldi. 
under surface with the eye-spots even smaller and is especially recognizable by having the broad yellow ring 
of cellule 2 on the forewing above proximally prolonged anteriorly as a hook or streak. German East Africa. 
H. elisi Karsch (28 a) is above quite similar to H. perspicua, but with grey instead of yellow rings 
to the eye-spots. The under surface is dark grey with dark brown striae and transverse lines; the median 
line is not distally margined with light and hence on the forewing immediately touches the broad grey-yellow 
ring of the eye-spot, in cellule 2; all the eye-spots well developed, with grey-yellow rings. Togoland. — 
evanida Thur. is the dry-season form and differs in the small, punctiform or indistinct eye-spots on the 
underside of the hind wing. 
H. phaea Karsch (28 b). Wings above grey-brown with very faint dark brown median transverse 
line and with the eye-spots quite as in elisi. Under surface grey with nearly straight dark brown transverse 
line; the basal area densely, irrorated with brown and with distinct transverse line across the middle of the 
cells; the forewing with four eye-spots, a large one in cellule 2 and a small one each in cellules 4—6, the 
hindwing with seven very crowded eye-spots, which have white pupils and a grey and a brown ring. Congo. 
H. teratia Karsch (28 e). Wings above in the basal half yellow-brown, in the distal part predominantly 
sulphur-yellow; on the forewing the yellow-brown of the basal part is distally bordered by an almost straight 
dark brown transverse line, which does not quite reach the costal margin and is distally accompanied by a 
sulphur-yellow transverse band; the marginal area bears two white-pupilled, black eye-spots, surrounded by 
a light yellow ring, the larger in cellule 2 and a small one in cellule 5: the costal margin and the apex 
yellow-brown to vein 4: marginal line dark brown. On the hindwing the median line is very slightly curved 
and the marginal area less light sulphur-yellow than on the forewing, light brown-yellow and anteriorly 
broadly shaded with brown; the marginal line is dark brown, proximally accompanied first by a fine curved 
line and then by a thicker brown curved line; four small, widely separated, white-pupilled eye-spots ringed 
with yellow and brown are placed in cellules 2—5. The wings are beneath yellow, densely irrorated with 
brown and divided by a nearly straight brown median transverse line, distally accompanied by a pure yellow T 
transverse band; the basal area with a dark transverse line in the middle; the marginal area of the forewing 
with 2 and that of the hindwing with 7 eye-spots, which are grey-blue with white pupils. Congo and 
German East Africa. 
H. simonsii Btlr. (28 d). This distinct-looking species is regarded by some authors as an extreme 
dry-season form of perspicua. Whether they are correct can only by proved by careful experiments. — The 
upper surface of both wings is light ochre-yellowish or sand-yellow with the basal part a little darker and 
separated from the marginal area by an inconspicuous, nearly straight transverse line; the apex of the forewing 
is tinged with brown and the brown colour is continued as a free submarginal line almost to the posterior 
angle; the hindwing also has usually a very fine brown submarginal line; the forewing has a black, white- 
pupilled eye-spot, in cellule 2 and a small one in cellule 5, the hindwing has 2 or 3 black dots in cellules 
(1 c) 2 and 3. The under surface is reddish yellow, densely striated and irrorated with red-brown; the darker 
basal part is bounded by a straight median line, broadly margined with yellow distally, and is distinctly 
broader than the marginal area; the eye-spots are small and punctiform or indistinct, only the spot in cellule 
2 on the forewing is somewhat larger. Transvaal, Mashonaland, Zambesi and Nyassaland. - - lacus Thur. only 
differs in having the costal margin and apex of the forewing grey-black for a breadth of about 4 mm. and the 
distal margin for about 2 mm.; the eye-spots are well developed and white-pupilled above and beneath: the 
hindwing has 7 beneath; the under surface is grev-brown without striation. Nyassaland. 
H. centralis Auriv. is nearly allied to the preceding species and above recalls lacus. Wings above 
light ochre-yellow or almost straw-yellow; the apex of the forewing very broadly black-brown (about 8 mm.), 
the black-brown colour continued at the distal margin to the hinder angle in a breadth o|‘ 3 mm. and at the 
costal margin to the base; in cellule 2 a medium-sized, white pupil led eye-spot, which almost touches the 
dark marginal band, and in cellule 5 a small similar spot; the hindwing with a dark brown marginal band 
4 mm. in breadth, indistinctly defined proximally, and two punctiform eye-spots in cellules 2 and 3. The 
under surface is rust-brown, finely striated with dark brown, and can be distinguished at once from simonsii 
by its having the dark basal part, which is distally cut off straight, not, broader, but almost narrower than 
the marginal part, the latter being 10 — 11 mm. in breadth; the eye-spots as in the type-form of simonsii small 
or indistinct. Katanga district in the Congo State. 
H. haroldi Druce is unknown to me in nature but seems to be allied to centralis and might even be 
the rainy-season form of it. The forewing above yellowish white, the base, the costal margin, the apex and 
the distal margin even more broadly black-brown than in centralis ; the eye-spots are light-ringed and that 
