KALLIMA. By Dr. C. Aurivjllius. 
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1. Genus: Mai lima Westw. 
Forewing broadly triangular with straight hindmargin, strongly curved costal margin, acute apex 
and straight or slightly emarginate distal margin, posteriorly somewhat ventricose at veins 2 and 3. Hind¬ 
wing lobed or tailed at the anal angle; on both surfaces or at least beneath with eye-spots in cellules 2 and 5 
and occasionally also in 3 and 4. 
Larva Vanessa -like with two long spines on the head and 6 sharp spines on each segment from 
2—-11. Pupa angular with two points on the head, a long pyramidal hump on the mesothorax and two 
conical protuberances dorsally on each of the middle abdominal segments. 
The African species are smaller and less leaf-like than the well-known species from South Asia. The 
genus does not occur on Madagascar. 
First Group. 
Hindwing broad and rounded with the distal margin more or less undulate. The dark median line on the underside 
of the hindwing, which extends from the ana] angle to the costal margin, is only continued on the forewing as far as vein 2 or 
is there directed towards the middle of the costal margin. 
K. rumia Dbl. & Westw. (49 f). Wings in the dark brown above; forewing with broad violet- rumia. 
blue median band and narrow red subapical band; hindwing almost unicolorous with indistinct grey sub¬ 
marginal line and 2—4 eye-spots; $ larger, the forewing with a white median band, extending from the 
middle of the costal margin to vein 3 and accompanied by a triangular white spot in cellule 2 and 3 or 4 
rounded white submarginal spots; the subapical band is absent; the upperside of the hindwing behind 
the middle with a very broad yellow-grey or yellowish white transverse band, not sharply defined. The under 
surface in both sexes brown-yellow with dark transverse lines and light markings, as shown in the figure. 
The hindwing only shortly lobed at the anal angle. Larva reddish grey with broad black discal line and oblique 
dark lateral streaks; head dark brown armed with two long spines; body with rather dense whitish hairs 
and light spines; the first segment is unarmed, segments 2—-11 each have 6 and segments 12 and 13 2 
spines. Pupa green, watered with reddish. Ivory Coast to the Congo. — $-ab. amiru Stiff, only differs in amiru. 
having the transverse band of the forewing partly cream-yellow instead of white. Togo. —- raffrayi E. Sharpe rattrayi. 
(= kassaiensis Niepelt) is an easterly race which only differs in the q from the type-form in the 
indistinct subapical band of the forewing and the eye-spots on the upperside of the hindwing, but in 
the $ is distinguished by having the hindwing above unicolorous without light transverse band, Avhile 
the forewing bears a larger white subapical spot; its transverse band is yellowish, as in amiru. Kassai 
River and Uganda. 
K. jacksoni E. Sharpe (50 a) is a rare and very beautiful species, which differs from rumia in the jacksoni. 
very sharp, somewhat falcate apex of the forewing and in having the distal margin of the hindwing slightly 
angled at vein 5; the anal angle forms an obtusely rounded tail of nearly 5 mm. in length; both wings above 
bright light greenish blue to far beyond the middle, with 3 white discal dots and 3 submarginal dots in 
cellules 2—4 and a small white subapical spot on the forewing and 3 black dots on the hindwing in cellules 
4—6 at the distal edge of the blue colour; the brown distal part of the hindwing is about twice as broad 
as the marginal band of the forewing and less sharply defined. The under surface is dark grey-brown with dark 
median line, which on the forewing runs from the middle of the hindmargin to the middle of the costal 
margin and is quite straight; the forewing with a distinct eye-spot in cellule 2 and some dark transverse 
lines in the cell. North-eastern Congo region and Kavirondc. 
Second Group. 
The hindwing elong'ated from, costal margin posteriorly, distal margin entire. The dark transverse line on the under¬ 
side of the hindwing is continued distinctly on the forewing as far as vein 5 and is directed towards the apex. The tail of the 
hind'' mg long, straight or somewhat curved or pointed. 
K. cymodoce Cr. (49 f). Both wings black-brown above, at the distal margin somewhat lighter cymodoce. 
brown and in the basal part with strong blue-violet reflection at least as far as vein 3; before the distal 
margin a black submarginal line and before the apex of the forewing at the base of cellule 7 a whitish 
dot; the forewing with gently curved orange-yellow subapical band, 3—4 mm. in breadth, extending from the 
costal margin to vein 3 or 2, or even reaching vein 1, but becoming indistinct posteriorly; a distinct eye- 
spot in cellule 2 of the hindwing and occasionally also in cellule 2 of the fore wing; the under surface is 
very dark tawny and sprinkled with yellowish scales. According to Arnold Schultze the species is very shy 
and when it has once settled in the dense underwood is not to be found again; it does not even fly up when 
the bushes are beaten. Niger to Angola. —- lugens A. Schultze only differs in having the subapical band on lugens. 
the upperside of the forewing very narrow, indistinct and olive-grey. South Cameroons. 
K. ansorgei Rothsch. (= incerta Griinb.) is probably the eastern form of cymodoce ; it only differs in the ansorgei. 
entire absence of the subapical band of the forewing and in having the upperside of both wings bright greenish 
