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CYMOTHOE. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
broad, anteriorly narrowed black-brown marginal band; submarginal line usually distinct on both wings. The 
under surface is yellow-brown and divided by a somewhat irregular transverse line into a basal area ornamented 
with large white spots and a distal area about 13—14 mm. in breadth, only marked with three dull, dark, dentate 
transverse lines. The $ is quite different from the $ above; the ground-colour is black with numerous sharply 
white spots; both wings grey-blue at the base; forewing with an angularly broken transverse streak in the 
cell, a longitudinal streak in 1 a at the middle of the hindmargin and 2—4 spots in each cellule from 
2 b—6. The hindwing has a very large white median area, adorned posteriorly in 1 c—3 with a bright orange- 
yellow spot, and in the black marginal band two rows of white spots; under surface grey-white with dark 
grey markings, agreeing pretty closely with those of the $; the median line of the hindwing is rust-yellow. 
Old Calabar to Angola; a quite common species. In the interior of the Congo region and in Uganda occurs 
theodosia. a second female form, theodosia Stgr. (36 a). This differs in having the median area of the hindwing pale 
ilieocranta. yellowish and wanting the orange-yellow spot. — theocranta Karsch, of which only a single specimen seems to 
be known, strongly suggests a melanotic example of the $ of beckeri. Size and shape as in this; forewing 
above unicolorous black-brown and with only a longitudinal streak at the hindmargin and 5 oblong, greenish- 
margined submarginal spots in cellules 1 b—5 whitish. On the hindwing the white spots in the dark marginal 
band are replaced by 5 white longitudinal rays, joined to the median area, in cellules 2—6; the yellow spot 
in cellules 1 c—3 as in the type-form. Cameroons. 
4. Lucasi Group. 
The species of this group really only agree in the narrow, straight, sharply defined white median band on the 
$ hindwing. For the rest, the first two species are very nearly allied and quite different in colour and markings from the 
third. The sexes are quite dissimilar and the 2$ considerably larger than the (jVJ. 
lucasi. C. lucasi Doumet (34 a). Both wings beneath with quite straight, thick red-brown median line, which 
becomes black at the hindmargin of the forewing. : both wings with the margins almost entire and with 
short black fringes; distal margin of the forewing from the apex to vein 3 straight, then slightly convex. Whigs 
above intensive fiery orange ; forewing only at the hindmargin with indication of a blackish median band and 
at the apex very narrowly blackish, otherwise unicolorous without markings, hindwing with a deep black 
median band, which is narrow at the costal margin but posteriorly becomes rapidly broader, almost reaches 
the anal angle and extends over the whole of the inner margin; at the anal angle in cellule 1 c there is a fine 
black marginal line, which is otherwise entirely absent. Beneath the wings are dull yellowish, in the basal 
half of the hindwing whitish grey and except in the cell of the forewing without distinct margins; the submarginal 
line only stands out very indistinctly. The brillant colour on the upper surface and the sharp contrast 
between the black and the orange render the of lucasi one of the most striking of the African butterflies. 
The $ is much larger, above black, at the base of the forewing broadly yellow-brown or red-brown, with 
a common narrow white median band and a deeply dentate thick white transverse line, which proximally 
borders the submarginal line. The under surface is whitish grey, somewhat darker at the base, with a thick 
dark brown to blackish median line and large blackish postdiscal spots on the hindwing and in cellules 1 a—2 
of the forewing; the submarginal line is fairly distinct. Old Calabar to Gaboon. 
cloetensi. C. cloetensi Seelclr. (35 a). <$: wings above unicolorous orange-yellow, at the base darker, brown-yellow; 
at the anal angle of the hindwing in lc and 2 with fine black submarginal line; under surface quite as in 
lucasi <$. The $ only differs from that of lucasi in having the upperside of the forewing black at the base, 
not red-brown. Southern Congo, on the Sankuru River. 
egesia. C. egesta. Hindwing with the anal angle in the somewhat produced, in the $ rounded; distal- 
margin of the forewing in the $ nearly straight, in the $ deeply excised beyond vein 6. The hindwing in both 
sexes close beyond the apex of the cell with a straight, narrow, white (or in the <$ light yellow), black-edged 
median band. In the J the forewing is light ochreous yellowish above, more or less darkened at the base 
especially in cellules 1 a—'2; the light median band of the hindwing is usually continued on the forewing 
to vein 2 or 4; the angled submarginal line is incomplete or only indicated by dots. In the $ the upper surface 
of the wings is black-grey to blackish, at the distal margin and at the apex of the forewing somewhat lighter; 
the white median band is continued on the forewing as far as vein 6 and there runs into a large yellowish 
costal spot; submarginal line thick and black. Beneath the wings are brown-grey (d 1 ) to grey ($), with fine, 
dark median line, on the hindwing straight and light-margined, on the forewing irregularly waved; the basal 
part has well developed dark transverse markings. -— In the northern race, egesta Cr. (34 b), the light transverse 
band of the forewing in the $ is indistinct or at least not margined with black; the light transverse band 
of the hindwing is distally somewhat dentate and usually sharply bordered with black on both sides; occasion- 
degesta. ally this black bordering is very narrow or absent (ab. degesta Stgr.). Sierra Leone to Gold Coast. — confusa 
confusa. A Ur i V . (= megaesta Stgr.) (34 a, b; 36 a) is on average larger and further differs in the <$ in having the light 
median band continued to vein 3 or 4 of the hindwing and there also broadly bordered with black. Old Calabar 
to Congo and Uganda. 
