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in cellule 2 is partly surrounded by the black marginal band; the hindwing yellowish or partly bluish white 
with broad black-brown marginal band, brown inner margin and basal part and two distinct white-pupilled 
and light-ringed eye-spots in cellules 2 and 3. On the under surface the basal part is deep black-brown and 
as in centralis scarcely as broad as the marginal part; the latter is also black-brown and separated from the 
basal area by a broad yellowish white transverse band, which at the hindmargin of the forewing reaches a 
breadth of 7 mm., but at the costal margin of the forewing and near the anal angle of the hindwing terminates 
in a point; the forewing has two large eye-spots and the hindwing 7 which touch one another; these are all 
black, with white pupils and a yellowish, a dark brown and a light grey ring; at the distal margin two light 
transverse lines. North-West Rhodesia, 
H. ochracea Lathy (= wellmanni Weym.) (28 c) is above very similar to H. centralis , but beneath ochraceu. 
quite different from all the preceding species. The ground-colour of both wings above light ochre-yellow; 
the costal margin, the apex and the distal margin of the forewing black-brown, at the apex for a breadth of 
about 8 mm., gradually becoming narrower in both directions, so that the breadth at the base and at the 
hinder angle is only 2 mm.; the dark marginal band of the forewing is thus considerably narrower than in 
centralis and rather widely separated by the yellow ground-colour from the eye-spot in cellule 2; the eye-spot 
in cellule 5 is small, but has a white pupil; the hindwing is more or less dusted with brownish at the distal 
margin, the base and the inner margin. On the under surface of the forewing the median line is entirely 
absent and the ochre-yellow ground-colour almost reaches the cell in cellules lb—3; the darkened costal 
margin, apex and distal margin are almost as broad as above, but much lighter, grey-brown, and with distinct 
dark transverse striae especially in the cell; the eye-spots in cellules 2 and 5 are formed as above and in 
addition there are eye-spots in cellule 4 and in cellule 6. The hindwing beneath is entirely light reddish 
grey-brown and finely striated with brown; the median line is indicated by two brown crescents, with their 
concavity turned towards the base, one placed at the base of cellule 2, the other near the base of cellules 
4 and 5; behind these crescents the ground-colour is sometimes somewhat relieved with yellowish and then 
follow seven small, white-pupilled, almost punctiform eye-spots. Expanse 48 mm. Angola, 
H. eliasis Hew. (28 d) differs from all the preceding in having the eye-spots placed close to the first eliasis. 
marginal line and only 1 —1.5 mm. from the distal margin. Wings above light ochre-yellow, the costal margin 
and apex of the forewing rather broadly black-brown; at the distal margin of both wings two fine dark lines, 
the inner more or less widened in the middle of each cellule. Both wings beneath with a distinct, nearly 
straight, rust-brown transverse line, which forms the distal boundary of the somewhat darker and densely 
striated basal area; the forewing with six, the hindwing with seven eye-spots, which are nearly all distinct 
above also; the eye-spots are black with white pupils and have three rings, a yellow, a blackish and a whitish: 
the eye-spot in cellule 3 of the hindwing is as large as or somewhat larger than the one in cellule 2. 
Loango, Congo and Angola. 
2. Subgroup. 
The antenna broadly and sharply ringed with white. The eye-spots placed near the distal margin. — the hind¬ 
wing above close to the base of the inner margin with a grey spot, which is posteriorly bounded by a black hair-pencil 
attached near to the base of vein 1. 
H. peitho Plots (28a). Both wings above unicolorous dark black-brown; the forewing with a larger peitlio. 
eye-spot in cellule 2 and a smaller in cellule 5, the hindwing at least with one in cellule 2; the eye-spots are 
black with white pupil and indistinct yellowish ring. The under surface is yellow, especially in the basal 
part striated with brown and with nearly straight, thick, red-brown transverse line on both wings; before the 
distal margin, in the eye-spot area, the ground-colour is more or less grey; the forewing has as above two 
eye-spots in cellules 2 and 5, the hindwing has normally six eye-spots, two in cellule 1 c and one each in 
2, 4, 5 and 6, of which the one in cellule 2 is always large and that in cellule 5 larger than the rest, which 
may be very small or indistinct; the eye-spots are white-pupilled aud have a thick, inner yellow ring and a 
fine, outer dark brown one. Expanse 39—40 mm. Gold Coast, Cameroons and Gaboon. — decira Plots only decira. 
differs in having the median line on the under surface somewhat curved and in the hindwing having beneath 
an eye-spot in each of cellules 2—6, of which those in cellules 2 and 6 are larger than the others. Gold Coast, 
H. nigrescens Baker is evidently nearly allied to the preceding species and is described as follows: nigrescens. 
„cf. Both wings deep velvety blackish brown, with small ocellated spots. Primaries with two small subapical 
intense black spots minutely but distinctly pupilled with white and having red irides which touch each other; 
a larger similar spot near the termen between veins 2 and 3; secondaries with a similar spot as in the 
primaries between veins 2 and 3, near the termen, with occasionally a trace of another similar one above it. 
Underside: both wings tawny oehreous, closely suffused with fine, deep, rusty, vein-like, wavy lines, terminating 
to a large extent in the postmedian area by a prominent deep rusty line through both wings. Primaries 
