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C. ciceronis Ward (35 e) is only known in the female and may possibly be only a $ form of the pre- ciceronis. 
ceding species. It has the white median band narrower and straighter, not divided at the costal margin, 
and the marginal spots somewhat larger, the under surface either has the same ground-colour as in jodutta $ 
>r occasionally is tinged with greenish. Cameroons. 
C. seneca Kirby is another female form nearly allied to jodutta $. It only differs from ciceronis (35 e) seneca. 
in having the white median band 5 mm. in breadth and at the costal margin of the forewing divided by a nar¬ 
row transverse mark and widened to a breadth of 12—13 mm. Cameroons. 
8. Sangaris Group. 
The SS are easily known by the dull golden yellow or bright red upper surface. The $$ on the other hand either 
have the basal part of both wings above red-yellow to reddish and distally dentate or bear a large red spot on the forewing or are 
blackish with a broad white median band. In the latter case they cannot be sharply separated by any general characters 
from the $$ of the preceding group. 
C. preussi Stgr. (35 e) is a very distinct species in the colouring and markings of both sexes and preussi. 
in certain respects forms a transition between this group and the preceding. In the A the upper surface of 
the wings is uniform dull, light brown-yellow or almost gold-yellow with fine black marginal line, dotted 
with white between the veins, and complete or almost complete undulate or bluntly dentate submarginal 
line; the cells with or without black transverse lines; the under surface is very similar to that of coccinata 
and has like the latter a large, quadrate whitish spot in the middle of cellule 7 at the costal margin of the 
hindwing. In the $ both wings are orange above in the basal part and beyond this, as the figure shows, black¬ 
ish with white spots. Cameroons. 
C. haimodia Smith has the female very similar to that of preussi , only differing in having the apical haimodia. 
part of the forewing and the marginal band of the hindwing purer black and without indistinct light 
markings; the forewing has sharply defined, undivided white discal spots in cellules 2 — 6 and 2 similar subapical 
spots in 5 and 6 ; the white postdiscal spots of the hindwing are large and sharply defined. The is unknown. 
Cameroons. 
C. coccinata Hew. (36 b, c, d). In the <$ the wings are bright scarlet above with fine black marginal coccinata. 
line, not or but little widened at the apex of the forewing, and black submarginal dots or (on the hindwing) 
submarginal lunules. The under surface yellow-brown, before the distal margin violet-grey; median line 
red-brown to blackish, dentate; the hindwing at the costal margin in the middle of cellule 7 with a qua¬ 
drate white or whitish spot, which is often indicated above also. The $ is black-grey above, in the basal part 
of the forewing to beyond the middle and in the basal half of cellules 1 a and 1 b of the forewing yellow-red; 
the black submarginal spots are very elongate, coniform and light-margined. Old Calabar to the southern 
Congo region and Uganda. 
C. anitorgis Hew. (36 c, as aramis $). The is similar to that of coccinata , but differs in the orange- anitorgis. 
red ground-colour of the upper surface and the thicker black marginal line, at the apex of the forewing 
widened as far as the middle of cellule 6 . The $ above blackish at the base, at the distal margin broadly 
. black-grey with a white median band 5 mm. in breadth, more or less darkened at the costal margin of the 
forewing; the submarginal spots are deep black, very elongate conical and the postdiscal line much lighter, 
very deeply dentate. Cameroons, Gaboon, Congo. $-ab. leonis ah. nov. (36 b) only differs from typical $$ Iconis. 
in the broader white median band. In $-ab. misa Strand the white median band is still more widened and misa. 
almost reaches the distal margin. Cameroons. 
C. aramis Hew. (36 c $). The <$ is unknown, but may perhaps be identical with the $ of anitorgis, aramis. 
in which case the species would have four female forms. In the $ the wings are black-grey above, with a very 
large red spot at the hinder angle of the forewing and a white median band on the hindwing; in cellules 
4—-6 this band is narrowly bordered with reddish distally. Old Calabar to the southern Congo. 
C. sangaris Godt. In the both wings are deep blood-red above, with fine black marginal line, not sangaris. 
or scarcely widened at the apex of the forewing, and a submarginal line usually broken up into spots; the 
under surface is dark brown with red median line, but without light spot at the costal margin of the hindwing. 
In the ^ the wings are grey above, the basal part very variable; dark grey—-yellow-brown—orange-yellow; 
a somewhat sinuous brown median line is usually conspicuous and the postdiscal and submarginal lines are 
sharply dentate and distinct; on the other band there is no white band. Sierra Leone to Angola and Uganda, 
d-ab. reuteri Strand only differs in having the submarginal spots on the upper surface small or absent and the reutcri. 
under surface lighter. Cameroons. 
C. angulifascia Auriv. (36 b), of which the A is unknown, differs from all other Cymothoe $$ in the anguli- 
white median band, which on the hindwing is 7 mm. in breadth, at the costal margin of the hindwing f ascia - 
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