HAMANUMIDA; ATERICA; CYNANDRA. By l)r. 0. Aurivillius. 
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beneath with 2 black submarginal spots in each cellule; cell of the forewing beneath greenish yellow with 3 
black dots, that of the hindwing beneath with two dots, above unspotted; hindwing beneath more or less suf¬ 
fused with light yellow in the middle. Cameroons to Angola and German East Africa. — ab. Christyi E. Sharpe chrisiyi. 
only differs in having both surfaces of the hindwing ochre-yellow instead of red, only the underside red at the 
costal margin. Toro. 
11. Genus: Hamaiiiiiuida Hbn. 
The distinctive characters of this genus have been given above, in the synopsis of the genera. The fore- 
whig is triangular ivith the distal margin nearly straight and the hindwing has the distal margin uniformly 
rounded. 
The larva was recently discovered in Natal and agrees almost entirely with the known larvae of Euphae- 
dra, having like these at each side of the body a row of long feathery spines spreading out horizontally; it 
is greenish in colour and has a habit of sitting on the upperside of leaves on the midrib; in this position the 
spines are said to resemble the lateral veins of the leaf and the larva is difficult to detect. The pupa is more 
slender than that of Euphaedra and has neither the lateral nor the dorsal elevations of the latter. 
The only species is widely distributed and differs in its habits from the rest of the Nymphalids in that 
it occurs also in open districts, which are not at all or scarcely wooded. 
H. daedalus F. (46 f). Both wings unicolorous slate-grey above with some black and white streaks daedalus. 
in the cells and three transverse rows of white, black-ringed dots in the distal half; the apex of the forewing 
occasionally whitish; the under surface is grey to brown or yellowish with the black markings of the upper 
surface, but without, or almost without, the white dots. f. meleagris Cr. (46 f) is quite similar above, but be- meleagris. 
neath lighter, yellow-brown to yellow, with distinct white spots and dots. The species occurs everywhere in 
continental Africa to the south of the Sahara with the exception of Cape Colony, and is even found in South 
Arabia, where it is the only representative of the Nymphalids. 
12. Genus: Aterica Bdv. 
The wings are short and broad, particularly in the <$; the forewing has the distal margin nearly straight 
and has two light transverse bands, often broken up into spots, one in the middle, composed of four larger 
spots in the cell and cellules 2—4, and one before the apex consisting of three or four small spots in cellules 4—6 
(the spot hi cellule 5 bipartite). The peculiarities of the neuration have already been noted on p. 143 in the 
generic synopsis. 
The early stages are unknown. 
A. rabena Bdv. (48 b). Forewing black above, the base and the hindmargin at least to vein 2 rust- rabena. 
brown with yellow transverse bands and yellow submarginal spots. Hindwing yellow-brown above, darker 
at the base; at the costal margin and the apex black-brown and with a fine black submarginal line, which disap¬ 
pears posteriorly. The under surface almost exactly as in the following species. Madagascar. 
A. galene Brown (= cupavia Cr.) (48 a, b). In the both wings are deep black above; the forewing galene. 
has eight light yellow spots, of which three small ones belong to the subapical band, four somewhat larger to 
the median band and the eighth is punctiform and placed at the anterior margin of the cell; in addition whitish 
submarginal streaks are sometimes present in cellules 1 b and 2. The hindwing in the middle with a light yellow 
transverse band covering the apex of the cell and the base of cellules 2—6 and also forming a spot in 1 c. The 
forewing black-brown beneath, at the apex broadly grey, with the same light yellow spots as above; the hind¬ 
wing beneath cloudy whitish grey with 2 black dots in the cell and the light transverse band as above, but 
much duller. The $ is larger, has white spots on the forewing and white, occasionally brown-yellow (= $-ab. 
dimorpha Bartel ), broader and more rounded median area on the hindwing; the hindwing is often more or dimorpha. 
less suffused with red-brown before the distal margin in the broad black marginal band. Throughout West 
Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola and the Albert Nyanza. — ab. extensa Heron has larger spots on the upper- extensa. 
side of the foreAving and broader median area on the hindwing. Ruwenzori. — incisa Bothsch. has smaller spots incisa. 
on the forewing and the median area of the hindwing more rounded, cut into by a black streak at the end of 
the cell. Abyssinia. —- theophane Hpffr. (48 a, b) has the median area of the hindwing in the E darker yellow, theophane. 
distally margined with brown-red, and in the $ saffron-yellow or red-yellow and very large. Portuguese and 
German East Africa. $-ab. dechroma Strand, only differs from theophane $ in having the median area- of the dechroma. 
hindwing white, margined with yellowish. German East Africa. 
13. Genus: (ynaixlra Schatzdb Bober. 
Both sexes recall species of Diestogyna and like these are entirely dissimilar. The distal margin of the 
hindwing projects distinctly but obtusely at vein 3, in which this genus differs from all other Nymphalids. 
The forewing has a white submarginal dot in each cellule from 2 to 6 and in 8; the dots stand in a double 
transverse line, curved in shape. 
