CUPID0. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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C. calice Hpjf. (73 b) has a moderately large white discal area on the forewing above, reaching calice. 
to the posterior margin or almost to vein 1, forming a frequently very smail spot in the discal cell and a long 
spot in area 3; the white median band of the hindwing does not reach to the costal margin. The under surface 
deviates from that of the other species by the position of the discal spots 6 and 7 on the hindwing. Congo 
District: Kassai, Angola, Ovambo Land, Natal, Zulu Land, Mossambique, Nyassa Land, and Rhodesia. 
C. ertli A uriv. is very similar to calice, but easily discernible by the marks mentioned in the review. By ertli. 
the large white spot of the posterior margin on the forewing it also strongly recalls C. carana Hew. (73 c) from 
which, however, it is at once distinguished by the black transverse streak at the end of the discal cell of the 
hindwing. Nyassa Land. 
C. melas Trim. (73 b as melafpa) is distinguished by the very much reduced white markings above, melas. 
The white discal spot of the forewing does not reach posteriorly to vein 1 and in front scarcely to vein 6 and 
in the centre it is almost interrupted by the transverse streak at the end of the discal cell almost touching the 
black discal spot of area 2 at the base of vein 3. The white submarginal spot in area 5, however, is always large 
and distinct. The white median band of the hindwing does not reach to the costal margin. Both sexes are 
similar to each other. In the whole of South Africa as far as Angola, Rhodesia, and British East Africa. 
C. griquus Trim, is only known to me by Trimen’s description and seems only to differ from melas griquus. 
by the marks mentioned in the review of species. Described according to specimens from the Griqua Land 
in Cape Colony. 
C. gregorii Bull. (74 a) has on the forewing a large spot of the posterior margin which it reaches com- gregorii. 
pletely and where it is about 4% mm broad, anteriorly reaching to vein 6 or 7 and also forming a small spot 
in the discal cell; the white submarginal spot is large and situate in 4 and 5; the white median band of the 
hindwing is broad and unspotted or almost unspotted, but it does not reach to the costal margin. On the under 
surface of the hindwing the discal spots 1 c to 5 are entirely absent or they are only represented by a dot in 
2 close in front of the submarginal band; the discal spot 6 is large, round, and is separate about in the 
centre of the area; the discal spot 7, however, is removed much more towards the base and is more or less 
completely coherent with the transverse streak at the end of the discal cell. The marginal spots of the forewing 
are small or absent, those of the hindwing somewhat larger and scaled green in the areas 1 c to 3 or 4. Kilima 
Ndjaro and British East Africa. 
C. cretosus is, as the review of the species states, distinguished by the marginal band of the forewing 
above showing large white spots and the submarginal band of the under surface being complete. It occurs in 
several forms (local races ?) the differences of which have not yet been exactly ascertained. — The typical form 
cretosus Bull, originates from Abyssinia; it has above three white spots, the central one of which is much larger, cretosus. 
in the dark marginal band of the forewing, and in the hindwing two linear white transverse streaks outside 
of the median band and three submarginal streaks near the anal angle; the discal band of the hindwing forms 
three divisions situate close at the submarginal band, the foremost being composed of two united spots. — In 
lactinatus Bull, the black markings are smaller and narrower, and the white colour is accordingly more expanded lactinatus. 
and even forms a white antemarginal line on the forewing above. Somali Land and Kordofan. — Of nodieri Oberth. nodieri. 
(— anomalogramma B.-Bah.) a co-type is before me from the Senegal which so exactly corresponds with 
Baker’s description of anomalogramma that it undoubtedly belongs to the same form. From the type it seems 
to differ by the white submarginal spot in area 2 on the forewing above being united with the large spot of the 
posterior margin and by the discal spot 5 of the hind wing being entirely absent; in addition, the discal spot 
2 of the hindwing is situate farther towards the base than the discal spots 1 b and 1 c. In the only specimen 
of cretosus lying before me, from Kordofan, all the discal spots of the hindwing are present, forming three trans¬ 
verse lines or transverse streaks, one consisting of the spots 1 b to 2, one of the spots 3 to 5, and the third 
at the costal margin of the spots 6 and 7; the spots 3 to 5 are situate nearer at the margin than the 
others. I am unable to decide whether these differences are reliable. Senegal. — usemia Neave I can also only usemia. 
regard as a form of cretosus. It deviates from the other forms by the white submarginal spots on the forewing 
above being reduced, so that there only remains one spot in area 4 and 5; by the absence of the discal spot 5 
of the hindwing it corresponds with nodieri. British East Africa: Kavirondo and on the White Nile. 
C. carana Hew. (73 c) has the same marking and colouring as cretosus, but beside the marks stated carana. 
in the review it deviates by the discal spots not being strigiform but thick and rounded; they are usually conti¬ 
guous, but they do not form such transverse streaks or transverse bands as in cretosus. Cameroon to Angola. — 
kontll Karsch (73 c) ,,is always somewhat larger, and the broad blackish border at the distal margin on both kontu. 
wings above is interrupted by a double row of small white arcuate spots' 4 . In Druce’s figure of the typical 
specimen these small arcuate spots are not to be seen on the forewing. On the hindwing they also occur in the 
typical form. Togo Land. 
C. margaritaceus Em. Sharpe (73 c) is the species in which the white colour is the most extensive margarita- 
and the black markings particularly beneath the least developed. The black marginal band of the forewing 
