CYMOTHOE. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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5. Lurida Group. 
The °f this group are easy to recognize by the strongly produced, almost lobed anal angle of the hindwing; 
the distal margin of the forewing is straight or nearly so and both wings above have the ground-colour brown-yellow to ochre- 
yellow or almost orange. In the $9 on the contrary the hindwing is usually rounded at the anal angle and the forewing deeply 
emarginate at the distal margin. The 99 are usually dark above and have on the forewing a white or whitish transverse 
band, running vertically from the costal margin and mostly reaching the hinder angle. 
C. lurida differs in the from the following species in having the upperside of the hindwing yellow- 
brown to brown-yellow from the base to beyond the middle and without black median band. The $$ have a 
sharply defined white transverse band on the forewing. — lurida Btlr. (34 d). In the $ both wings above have lurida. 
the ground-colour brown-yellow, at the base darker yellow-brown; the forewing has a narrow black-brown 
marginal band, only 2mm. in breadth, but is otherwise without markings; the hindwing has a black-brown 
marginal band, 14—15 mm. in breadth at the anal angle and gradually narrowing towards the costal margin, 
the black submarginal line showing distinctly in this band. In the $ (= hesione Weym.) the wings are black- 
brown above with black submarginal line and narrow black median band on the hindwing; the white transverse 
band of the forewing is 10 mm. in breadth in the middle. The under surface in both sexes is brightly marked 
with reddish median line and yellow (J) or white ($) spots. Ashanti to Angola. —- hesiodotus Stgr. (34 d hesiodotus. 
not <$) only differs in the upperside of both wings'in the <$ being bright red-brown at the base and 
in the $ having the transverse band of the forewing narrower and bearing a broad red-brown 
marginal band on the hindwing. Ogowe. — In the G of butleri Griinb. the dark marginal band butleri. 
on the upperside of the forewing is broader, about 3.5 mm. in breadth at the costal margin, basally 
prolonged as in hypatha $ and accompanied proximally by black submarginal dots; the marginal band 
of the hindwing not sharply defined proximally. The £ differs from the type-form in having the ground-colour 
dark coffee-brown, only in the apical part of the forewing black-brown, and the transverse band of the forewing 
narrow and interrupted by black markings. Uganda. — sublurida Fruhst. differs from the type-form in having sublurida. 
the marginal band of the hindwing almost obsolete and that of the hindwing much narrower; the ground¬ 
colour is also lighter. Fernando Po. —■ colmanti Auriv. has the $ lighter above ; the forewing with the marginal colmanti. 
band narrower, but widened at the apex; the hindwing without dark marginal band, but with sharply prominent 
black lunulate line and at the distal margin sprinkled with black scales. The white transverse band of the 
forewing in the $ only 4 mm. in breadth. Northern Congo. —- congoensis Stiff, is very similar to the preceding congoensis. 
species and only differs in the forewing having deep black submarginal spots in cellules 6—8 and in the lunu¬ 
late line of the hindwing being proximally more or less broadly margined with black. Congo. 
In the (7(7 of the following species the hindwing has on the upperside a dark median line or median band or is black 
or blackish in the basal part to beyond the middle. 
C. ochreata Smith. <$: ground-colour of both wings orange-yellow above; forewing without markings ochreata. 
in the cell and without distinct dark median line; the submarginal dots are small and the dark marginal band 
is only distinct at the apex. Hindwing only a little darker at the anal angle and with a narrow dark median 
line and a similar, dentate submarginal line, but at the distal margin not or scarcely darkened; the cell with 
some indistinct transverse markings. $: both wings above dark brown from the base to the middle, then much light¬ 
er and with a dark transverse line, accompanied proximally on the forewing by 5 triangular spots and on the hind¬ 
wing near to the inner margin by two semi-elliptical brownish white spots. Only known from the large primeval 
forests in the northern Congo region. — cycladina Griinb. appears only to differ from the type-form in the <$ cycladina. 
having on both wings a distinct dark marginal band above and consequently stands in almost the same 
relation to ochreata as butleri Griinb. to colmanti Auriv. Uganda. 
C. Cyclades Ward (34 b). $: both wings bright orange above, at the base somewhat darkened; cydades. 
forewing only with small submarginal dots, fine marginal line and a small hindmarginal spot in cellule 1 a 
black or blackish; hinclwing with a blackish median band about 3 mm. in breadth, anteriorly broken up into 
spots, and a black submarginal line, separated by the yellow ground-colour from the marginal band; the latter 
3 mm. in breadth. The $ is unknown to me. Cameroons. 
C. borsnyi Smith. In the G the wings are yellow-brown above, darker at the base and at the anal angle bonnyi. 
and distal margin of the hindwing; forewing with 2 dentate lines in the cell, an olive-brown transverse 
line between the hinclmargin and vein 3, small submarginal dots and the distal margin irrorated with black. 
Hindwing above with an olive-brown median band, sharply defined proximally, and a submarginal row of 
confluent, sagittate spots, distally margined with yellow-brown; the base, the inner margin and the distal 
margin are sprinkled with dark scales. On the Aruwimi River in the north-eastern Congo region. — orphnina orphnina. 
Karsch is probably a $-form of bonnyi. The distal margin of the forewing very deeply emarginate beyond 
vein 6; anal angle of the hindwing produced almost as in a G. Wings above light brown; forewing with three un¬ 
dulate black-brown transverse lines in the cell and two similar lines distally to them between veins 4 and 7; 
