CAENIDES. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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§§. Hindwing beneath with a broad, indistinctly defined, whitish median transverse band. 
C. caenira 
oo. The hyaline spot in area 2 of the forewing is well separated from the spots in 1 b and in 
the cell. C. caenira $. 
[3. The hyaline spot in area 2 of the forewing is always large, elongate, yellowish, and extends just as 
far or farther towards the margin than the spot in area 3. Forewing without hyaline spots in 4 and 5, 
*. Hindwing beneath before the centre with a transverse row of three silvery white spots (in 1 c, 
7, and the discal cell). C. leonora, 
**. Hind wing beneath without silvery spots. 
o. Forewing with subapical hyaline spots at least in 6 and 7. — $ forewing in the basal part 
of area 2 within the hyaline spot with a strigiform or comma-like mealy spot, which sometimes 
reaches to vein 1. 
+. Hindwing above uni-coloured blackish-brown without a marking, beneath deep, 
monotonously umber-brown, with some small light dots. Forewing without a hyaline 
dot in 8. 
1. The hyaline spot in area 6 of the forewing roundish, whitish, and separate. Hindwing 
beneath with several small white dots. C. maracanda. 
2. The hyaline spot in area 6 of the forewing yellowish, elongate and touching the dot 
in 7. Hindwing beneath with 2 to 4 yellow dots (in 3, 5, 7, and in the discal cell). 
C. binaevata. 
ff. Hindwing beneath lighter, variegated, at the base more or less yellow and distally spotted 
yellow; also above with yellow spots. Eorewing above with three subapical hyaline 
spots (in 6 to 8), of which that in area 6 is always longer and larger than the others. 
1. Thorax above with bright yellowish-brown hair. The hyaline spot in the discal cell 
of the forewing is towards the base transversely cut off. Hindwing beneath without 
a dark dot in the yellow basal part. C. stohri. 
2. Thorax above with greenish-brown hair. The hyaline spot in the discal cell of the 
forewing at the median more or less extended towards the base. Hindwing beneath 
in area 7 with a dark dot in the yellow basal part. C. luehderi. 
oo. Eorewing without hyaline spots in 6 to 9. Hindwing on both sides uni-coloured blackish- 
brown without spots. —• <$. Eorewing without a mealy spot, but hindwing above in the 
discal cell with a large, black hair-pencil showing distally. C. benga. 
B. Forewing without a hyaline spot in area 2. Hyaline spots of the forewing small, only in 3 (4), 6 to 8 
(and in the discal cell). 
a. Expanse of wings about 42 mm. Hindwing above at the margin between the veins 2 and 6 with a 
narrow, white, proximally dentate marginal band and white fringes. C. dacena. 
[3. Expanse of wings about 35 mm. Hindwing uni-coloured blackish-brown, without a white marginal 
band. —- Hindwing above with a large, black hair-pencil in the discal cell. C. dacenilla. 
II. Eorewing without hyaline spots. Hindwing above uni-coloured blackish-brown without spots or only at 
the anal angle yellow. 
a. Hindwing beneath with a sharply defined white median band from the costal margin into area 1 c, 
where it is extended in a long point towards the margin; above at the anal angle more or less orange, 
C. orma. 
[3. Hindwing beneath without a white transverse band. 
*. Hindwing beneath with a black spot in the discal cell and black discal spots. Eorewing beneath 
at the anal margin broad white. 
1. Hindwing beneath with a greenish ground-colour. Cheeks, sides of the palpi, and forewing beneath 
at the base of the costal margin orange. Fringes of hindwings white. Abdomen beneath orange, 
(7. iricolor. 
2. Hindwing beneath with a reddish-brown ground-colour. Abdomen not haired orange. 
C. latercula. 
**. Hindwing beneath uni-coloured without spots. Forewing beneath at- the anal margin only feebly 
lighter. C. sextilis. 
All the species of this genus exhibit on both wings above a dark brown or blackish-brown ground-colour, and generally 
distinct hyaline spots on the forewings. The hindwing above is sometimes darker than the forewing, generally uni-coloured 
without spots. 
C. dacela Hew. (= nydia Plotz ) (80 a). In the $ the hindwing above is not spotted, in the $ it shows dacela. 
a light, often indistinct dot in the discal cell and 4 or 5 whitish discal dots. In the $ there is in the area 1 b 
of the forewing a triangular light spot which lacks the $. Cameroon, Fernando Po. 
C. soritia Hew. (= podora Plotz, xychus Mob., xantho Mab.) (80 a) only differs from dacela by the soritia. 
marks stated in the review. Senegal to Gabun. 
