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the base only very slightly dusted dark; the marginal band of the hindwing is only about iy 2 mm broad, and 
only at its anterior end, where it is slightly broader (about 1,8 mm), black, otherwise dark grey; on the 
hindwing beneath the black costal spot is just as large as the marginal spot; near the centre of the proximal 
margin of the hindwing there is a black punctiform spot; forewing beneath without a postmedian row of grey 
dots; the marginal spots of both wings appear as blurred transverse streaks at most. Expanse of wings : 33 mm.“ 
Cameroon. 
bueronicus. C. buerotiicus Karsch. (74 h; under surface as gilssfeldti). German East Africa: Usambara. The 
marks vid. in the review on p. 493. 
albicosta. C. albicosta Gaede is described after a single <T, as follows: ,,similar to punctatus Dew. and pseudo- 
punctatus Strd. Forewing only at the base feebly dusted with dark, at the distal margin somewhat broader 
black than pseudo punctatus, more like punctatus. On the hindwing the marginal band is as broad as in punctatus, 
but the white rings in it are only indistinctly pronounced. Beneath on both wings the black eyespots with 
white rings are more distinct than in punctatus. On the hindwing all the marginal spots are black, not only 
that in area 2, which shows blue scales, like in punctatus. The costal margin of the hindwing lacks the spot, 
and there are only traces noticeable of submarginal yellow lines at the proximal margin and between R 4 and 
R. 6. Expanse of wings: 30 mm.“ Cameroon. 
rjussjcldti. C. giissfeldti Dew. (74 h) is easily recognized by the entirely separate marginal spots on the hindwing. 
Sierra Leone to Angola. 
ornatus. C. ornatus Mob. (= pseudosoyauxi Ehrm.). Eorewing above at the base as far as the centre of 
the costal margin dusted with dark grey. In the typical form the hindwing above lacks the submarginal line, 
and the marginal spots are therefore only separated by the black ends of the veins. Sierra Leone to Togo. —• 
vestalis. vestalis Auriv. Hindwing above with a distinct submarginal line being thickened at the veins. Sierra Leone 
(lava, to Congo. — flava Holl. Ground-colour of both wings straw-coloured instead of white. Gabun: Benito. 
We may append here C. elorea F. (Donov .). Anything similar has no more been found later on, and 
the typical specimen was probably composed of two different species, the forewing of a Larinopoda and the 
hindwing of C. ornatus. 
Twenty-fourth Group. 
Zizera- Group. 
Eyes bare or rarely finely haired. Erons black with white lateral margins. Palpi beneath very bristly. 
Eorewing with 11 veins, vein 8 being absent. Hindwing tailless. Throughout small species (expanse of wings: 
15 to 24 mm), all the discal spots beneath small, black, separate and punctiform (only the cliscal spot in 1 c 
is generally transverse, strigiform, which is due to its being composed of two combined dots). 
Review of the Species. 
A. Hindwing beneath with a black subbasal dot in area 1 c. 
a. Vein 11 of the forewing is only for a short distance separate and then entirely fused with vein 12 
without being separated again. Forewing without a black dot in the discal cell, but with discal dots 
in 7 + 8, 9 and 10. Hindwing at the rise of vein 8 with a small black basal spot; its discal dot in 6 
much nearer at the margin than that in 7. — Zizula Chapm. C. gailca. 
fi. Vein 11 of the forewing quite separate or only touching vein 12. 
*. Wings above without any spots, or at most with traces of marginal spots on the hindwing. 
f. Forewing beneath without a black dot in the discal cell and without discal dots in 7 to 10. — 
Zizina Chapm. 
1. The discal spot 6 of the hindwing is not nearer at the margin than the discal spot 7; these 
two are therefore situate in a line almost vertical to the costal margin. C. antanossa. 
2. The discal spot 6 of the hindwing is as generally much nearer at the margin than the discal 
spot 7. C. minusculus. 
jf. Eorewing beneath with a black dot or transverse streak in the discal cell. The discal spot in 
6 of the hindwing is much nearer at the margin than the spot in 7, the discal spots 5 to 7 are 
consequently in an almost straight line. 
1. Eorewing beneath with but three large, jet-black discal dots (in 4 to 6); in case there are 
other discal spots present, they are minute and indistinct. Hindwing with a basal dot in 
area 7. C. atrigemmatus. 
2. Eorewing beneath at. least with 7 distinct discal dots in 1 b to 6, and 9. 
a. Hindwing beneath without a white longitudinal streak at vein 5. Eorewing without a 
discal dot in area 10 and generally also without a basal spot in area lb. C. lysimon. 
