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CUPIDO. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
stactalla. 
cyara. 
tenuimargi- 
natus. 
chibonota¬ 
nus. 
heritsia. 
B. Both wings beneath with a purely white ground-colour. Hindwing beneath at the base in all the areas scaled 
black, but without a black dot on vein 1 b. If the forewing shows beneath only one costal-marginal spot, 
it is situate at the centre of the costal margin, opposite the apex of the discal cell. 
a. Forewing beneath without a transverse spot at the end of the discal cell and with but one costal-marginal 
spot (in the areas 10 to 12). — forewing above with a white anal-marginal stripe reaching at least to 
the fold of area 1 b. Hindwing above with a narrow marginal band of only about 2 mm width. 
C. chibonotana. 
[3. Forewing beneath with 4 large black transverse spots at the costal margin, the central one of which 
also covers the apex of the discal cell. Marginal band of the hindwing above 4 to 5 mm broad. — $ anal 
margin of the forewing above not or very slightly scaled white. C. heritsia. 
C. stactalla Karsch (72 h). The $ has been sufficiently described above, and is at once discernible from 
the following species by the black dots in area 7 of the hindwing beneath; the whitish transverse band of the 
hindwing above is probably very variable in its width. $ unknown to me. Sierra Leone to Nigeria. 
C. cyara Hew. (72 h) occurs from Cameroon to Angola and British East Africa; it is easily recognized 
by the marks mentioned above. — tenuimarginatus Griinb. differs from the type by the faintly visible marginal 
band of the hindwing above and the great reduction of the black spots beneath; in the forewing the costal- 
marginal spot at the mouth of vein 9 as well as the marginal spots from the apex to vein 2 are very small, in 
the hindwing there is only a black dot at the base of area 1 a and two small marginal spots in 1 b and 2. Uganda. 
C. chibonotanus Auriv. forms a fine transition between cyara and heritsia , but it appears to me now 
to be much more closely allied to the latter species than to the former. Forewing above dark violettish- 
brown with a blackish marginal band and at the anal margin with a white stripe of about 2 mm width reaching, 
however, neither to the base nor to the margin; hindwing above purely white with a black marginal band of 
2 mm width, and at the base narrowly scaled black. Both Avings beneath of a pure white; forewing with a small 
costal-marginal spot near the base and a larger one opposite the apex of the discal cell, and at the margin with 
irregular black spots. The hindwing has a small, irregular, black basal area, two small, indistinct costal-marginal 
spots, two rounded, blue-scaled marginal spots in 1 c and 2 and two rather indistinct marginal spots in 4 and 5. 
Kilimandjaro, at altitudes between 1300 and 1900 m. 
C. heritsia Hew. (72 i). This species being known long ago differs above from chibonotanus particularly 
by the broader marginal band of the hindwing; beneath it is distinguished by the 4 large transverse spots or 
transverse bands at the costal margin of the forewing and by the two distinct costal-marginal spots of the hind- 
Aving. The £ agrees beneath with the A, but above it shoAvs a very large white anal-marginal spot of the forewing, 
reaching to vein 6 and also forming a spot in the discal cell; it was formerly described as a separate species 
(virgo Butl.). 
Second Group. 
Both the morphological marks and the marking beneath distinctly show that the forms of this group 
are closely connected with those of the preceding group. The eyes are long and densely haired. Vein 11 of 
the forewing is at least generally fused with 12 for a short distance, or they are very closely joined. The 
fringes of the wings are like in the species of the preceding group spotted AA'hite between the ends of the veins. 
HindAving above with distinct black, sometimes blue-scaled marginal spots in 1 c and 2. 
The androconia are more elongate, often hair-like, and generally form a large spot or longitudinal streaks 
on the forewing above. Only in C. antinorii they are like in the species of the preceding group distributed across 
the AAdiole upper surface Avithout forming spots. 
The marking beneath is completely developed, consisting of dark, angular or ring-shaped spots or 
transverse streaks. The forewing has lstly separate or united black basal spots in the areas 1 b, 12, and in the 
discal cell; 2ndly one or two dark transverse streaks or transverse bands beginning at the costal margin itself 
and reaching right across the discal cell at least to the median; 3rdly a transverse spot at the end of the discal 
cell; in the 4th place a row interrupted at vein 3 of 8 to 9 discal spots in the areas 1 b to 6, 8, 9, 10, and 
in the 5th place two submarginal lines composed of dark streaks or spots. The hindwing beneath has more 
or less confluent black basal spots, one or tAvo spots in the discal cell, subbasal spots in the areas 1 a, 1 b and 
1 c, a transverse spot at the end of the discal cell, a frequently very irregular row of 8 discal spots, a spot before 
the centre of area 7, two narroAv black longitudinal streaks at the costal margin in area 8, being coherent 
with the spots of area 7, and finally two submarginal lines composed of streaks, boAvs or spots, the distal line 
forming in the areas 1 c and 2 one large, rounded black spot each, scaled blue or green. 
