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APATUROPSIS; HYPOLIMNAS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
cleocharis. 
kilusa. 
blue to beyond the cell; the blue colour is sharply defined distally and is distinct at every angle of light. 
Uganda and the interior of the Cameroons near Babungo, 1500 in. (A. Schultze). 
2. Genus: Apaturopsis Auriv. 
The forewing is triangular with the costal margin moderately curved and the distal margin angled at vein 
6 and deeply incurved behind it. In the the hindwing is distinctly produced at the anal angle. The cells 
are open and vein 10 of the forewing arises behind the apex of the cell; the precostal vein of the hindwing 
is distally curved. The genus agrees in the shape of the wings with Thaleropis Stgr. and in neuration with Dilipa 
Moore, but differs from both in the naked eyes. 
It is possible that Apaturopsis does not belong to the Vanessinae but to the Apaturinae. This, however, 
can only be settled by the discovery of the early stages. 
Both the species are little known and still very rare in collections. 
A. cleocharis Hew. (50 e). The hindwing and the basal half of the forewdng brown-yellow above; 
the former with black apical spot, black line just before the distal margin and small black submarginal spots in 
cellules 2—5, the latter divided by a dentate black transverse line into a proximal brownish and a distal 
yellowish part; the apical half of the forewing black with two small white subapical dots and yellow- discal 
spots in 1 b, 3, 4, 5 and 6; under surface yellow-brown and yellow-grey with brownish spots and striae. The 
$ is larger and has the hindwing completely rounded at the anal angle. Gazaland, Angola, Congo and Uganda. 
A. kilusa Smith (50 e) is similar to the preceding species, but lacks the white subapical dots on the 
forewing and the dark marginal line on the hindwing; the underside of the forewing is also much darker 
than in cleocharis. North-West Madagascar. 
3. Genus: H ( vpoIiiniias Hbn. 
Palpus elongate, with appressed scales, black with white spots. Antenna of moderate length, not 
extending beyond the middle of the costal margin on the forewing; its club distinctly defined, oval, little 
flattened. Wings large and broad; the forewing at the extremity of vein 6 more or less angled or outcurved 
and behind this emarginate; hindwing rounded, or a little produced at the anal angle, the distal margin 
undulate, dentate, or occasionally almost entire. 
Larva with two long spines on the vertex of the head, two short spines at each side on the first seg¬ 
ment and 8—10 in a transverse row on segments 2—11. -—- Pupa with two short blunt points on the head, 
the thorax moderately raised, abdomen with short conical spines. 
The species are medium-sized to large and are widely distributed in the tropics of the Old World. 
In the Ethiopian Region they are represented both on the continent and on the islands. 
The females of some species are entirely different in markings and colouring from the males and mimic 
the Danaids. Another species, H. dubia, is noteworthy on account of the extraordinary number of forms in 
which it occurs, as has only recently been discovered. 
The Ethiopian species may be divided into 4 groups. 
Synopsis of the Groups. 
I. Cell of the hindwing distinctly closed. Palpus beneath with broad, continuous white longitudinal stripe, 
reaching at least to the end of the second joint. Misippus Group. 
II. Cell of the hindwing open or extremely finely closed. Hindwing beneath without black transverse streak 
in cellule 7. Palpus beneath only with separated white spots, one at the base of the first, the o Iwr at 
that of the second joint. 
a) Cell of the forewing unicolorous black or at most with a bluish stripe. Forewing without broad 
white subapical band, but often with free, rounded submarginal spots. Salmacis Group. 
b) Cell of the forewing with a white spot or, Avhen this spot is absent, the forewing with broad white 
subapical band. 
1. Forewing without white subapical band and without white hindmarginal spot, but in the middle 
with white spots at the base of cellules 2, 3 (and 4). Dinarcha Group. 
2. Forewing behind the middle with a white or bluish subapical band composed of spots in cellules 
4—6, placed almost vertically to the costal margin, and in addition with white median band or 
white hindmarginal spot. Dubia Group. 
