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RHOPALOCAMPTA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
aeschylus. 
ratek. 
libeon. 
unicolor. 
andonginis. 
brussauxi. 
ramanatek. 
chalybe. 
bixae. 
fervida. 
forestall. 
arbogastes. 
pansa 
anchises. 
jucunda. 
pisistratus. 
**. Hindwing without such a spot, but in the marginal half of area 1 c with an elongate orange-red 
spot which is almost entirely parted by a black transverse streak. 
1. Forewing above dark brown, hindwing above with orange hair, with a broad black distal margin 
and costal margin. Rh. keithloa. 
2. Both wings above metallic violettish-blue with black marginal bands. Rh. bocagei. 
Rh. aeschylus Plotz (75 e). „Upper surface blackish-green. Fringes of forew ings grey, of hindwings 
white, at the anal angle reddish-yellow.“ Senegal. 
Rh. ratek Bsd. (75 f). Both wings beneath quite monotonously dark brown; thorax above with greenish 
hair. Madagascar. 
Rh. libeon Die. is said to exhibit an indistinct wdrite spot at the anal angle on the hindwing beneath. 
Angola. —- unicolor Mab. (75 f) only differs by the absence of this spot. In the $ the hindwing beneath is before 
the margin more or less densely clothed with light grey scales (= andonginis Plotz). Cameroon to Natal and 
Delagoa. —- To this probably also belongs brussauxi Mab. which is unknown to me, and has been described 
according to a single, worn specimen, as follows: ,,Wings quite black, with a reddish reflection between the 
veins, the disc of the forewing being of a slightly darker colour; hindwing likewise black, the fringes from vein 
4 to the anal angle snow-white; under surface of the wings blackish-brown, lighter at the margin; area 1 of 
the forewing in the centre light reddish; body on both sides black; ventrum with white hair.“ Congo, on the 
Ubangi River. 
Rh. ramanatek Bsd. (75 h). Both wings above blackish, in the centre scarcely lighter. Distinguished 
from all the other species by the snow-white anal spot on the hindwing above. Madagascar. 
Rh. chalybe Dbl. & Hew. (75 e). Wings above almost black; in the the forewing at the base and 
the hindwing as far as the margin with an intense blue reflection, in the $ both wings above are only in the 
basal parts scaled bluish-green. Togo to Congo. 
Rh. bixae L. (75 e). Both wings above deep blackish-blue without a reflection, beneath almost black. 
West Africa. 
Rh. fervida Btlr. (75 g). Forewing above blackish-brown, only at the base with some reddish-yellow 
hair; hindwing beneath at the anal angle with a reddish-yellow spot reaching to vein 1 b. Palpi white with 
black lines. Madagascar. 
Rh. forestan Cr. (78 i). Forewing above almost to the base dark greyish-brown; hindwing, however, 
in the centre somewhat lighter, light yellowish; thorax above grey-haired. Everywhere on the African Continent, 
to the south of the Sahara. -— Larva of a bluish ground-colour, marked with dark transverse streaks; each 
joint has in front a broad dark brown transverse band and behind it 2 or 3 darker transverse lines; on the 
joints 1 to 3 the transverse band reaches to the feet, on the others only to the top of the spiracles; on 
the joints 5 to 11 the transverse band on each side encloses a light streak, and on the joints 5 to 10 we see 
between the two first transverse lines a shortened line on the centre of the dorsum. The head is yellow with 
two transverse rows of black dots, the upper of which consists of 6 and the lower of 5 dots. Pupa greenish, 
dusted with white; it has two short black tips on each side at the anterior edge of the mesodorsum and 
one on the centre of the head. — arbogastes Gn. (78 i) is a separate race occurring in Madagascar, only different 
by the thorax above and both wings at the base being clothed with light greenish grey hair, and besides by 
the hindwing above being in the centre lighter whitish-grey. 
Rh. pansa Hetv. (75 e) only occurs in Madagascar. 
Rh. anchises Gerst. (75 f) is easily discernible by the marks stated in the review. It occurs in East 
Africa from the Delagoa Bay to the Somaliland, and was also met with in Arabia near Aden. 
Rh. jucunda Btlr. is above quite similar to anchises , but beneath different by the white transverse 
band being broken up into about 5 spots one of which, the largest, is situate in area 1 c and encloses the black 
dot, whilst another is in the discal cell and one each in the areas 2 to 6; the latter are generally indistinctly 
defined and often united with each other; the figure (75 f) is a copy after Butler’s original figure and represents 
a rare aberration being otherwise unknown to me, in which all these spots are reddish-yellow and distinctly 
defined and the costal margin of the forewing b e n e a t h orange -yellow. Peculiar to the Island of 
Sokotra. —- The larva lives on a species of Ficus, it is blackish with a yellow transverse band in the centre of 
each joint and a yellowish, red-spotted lateral line on the joints 4 to 10; head red with black dots almost as 
in the larva of Rh. forestall. 
Rh. pisistratus F. (75 g) is distributed from Sierra Leone to South Africa, but unknown to me from 
East Africa to the north of the Delagoa Bay. 
Rh. hanno Plotz (75 f) is above darker than pisistratus ; forewing beneath with a small white spot 
in 5 (and 6). Sierra Leone to Gabun. 
hanno. 
