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CAENIDES. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
cylinda. 
Her da. 
waga. 
lacida. 
zareiriba. 
balenge. 
kanguensis. 
honor a. 
maracanda. 
binaevata. 
stohri. 
luchderi. 
umbrlna. 
benga. 
corduba. 
cretacea. 
'ploeiziana. 
arela. 
C. cylinda Hew. (= calpis Karsch) (80 d). Easily recognizable by the marking on the hindwing beneath. 
Togo to Angola. — ilerda Mschlr. (80 c) is hardly different. Cf. the figures. Gold Coast. — waga Plotz (80 cl) 
seems to differ rather much, but it is probably figured from a worn specimen. Gold Coast. 
C. lacida Hew. (80 cl) recalls the preceding species,, but it differs by the light yellow ground-colour 
of the hindwing beneath. Gabun. 
C. zaremba Plotz (80 d). This species also approximates the two last species, but it is smaller and 
different by the differently arranged and less numerous dark spots on the liinclwing beneath. Old Calabar 
to Congo. 
C. balenge Holl. (80 e, f) is a large, magnificent species which, by the large, bright yellow hyaline 
spots of the areas 2 and 3 and of the discal cell of the forewing, together with kanguensis, forms a fine transition 
to the species following hereafter. The under surface (80 f) of the liinclwing is lighter brown, somewhat 
clouded, at the margin narrowly and in area 1 c broadly lighter greyish-yellow, with white, black-encircled 
clots in 2, 5 and 7, of which that in 5 is large and oblong. Sierra Leone and Ogowe. 
C. kanguensis Holl. (80 a). The <$, like that of dacela, shows a mealy streak in the areas 1 c and 2 
of the forewing and a large black hairpencil in the discal cell of the hindwing above. The $ also exhibits a 
light spot in the area 1 b of the forewing. Ogowe and Ruwenzori. 
C. icon ora Plotz (80 b) differs from all the other species by the silvery spots on the hindwing beneath. 
Gold Coast to French Congo. 
C. maracanda Hew . (80 c as ,,maracandica“) has been sufficiently described in the review of the 
species. Cameroon to Angola. 
C. binaevata Mob. (80 b) is only known to me from the Ogowe Valley. 
C. stohri Karsch (80 b) is known from Togo, Cameroon and Gabun. 
€. luehderi Plotz. This rare species is very closely allied to stohri, but it is easily discernible by the 
marks mentioned in the review. Forewing above in the area 1 b with one (B) or two ($) yellow spots. Hindwing 
above with a yellow spot in the discal cell, one in 2 behind the centre and generally also with one in 5. Hindwing 
beneath in the basal third of a bright yellow with a dark dot in area 7, then right across the centre dark brown 
with indistinct, dark encircled, brownish-yellow discal spots and a similar spot in the apex of the discal cell 
(one or two spots in 1 c are filled up with whitish), at the margin somewhat lighter yellowish-brown. Palpi, thorax 
and ventrum yellow; dorsum clothed with brown hairs with yellowish tips. Gold Coast to Cameroon. — umbi ina 
Rbl. is not before me, but according to the description and figure, it is probably the East African race of 
luehderi. It seems only to differ by the hyaline spot in the discal cell of the forewing being still farther extended 
towards the base, the hindwing above showing yellow spots also in 3 and 4, and the hindwing beneath being 
more abundantly and distinctly marked. Captured near Moera in the primeval forest to the north of Lake 
Edward. 
C. benga Holl. (80 c) is distinguished by the hindwing being without spots on both sides, the forewing 
exhibiting only three yellow hyaline spots (in 2, 3, and the discal cell), whilst the $ shows besides a small 
yellow streak in lb. Cameroon; Ogowe. 
C. corduba Hew. (= massiva Mab. & Vuill.) (80 c) is known only in the female and recognizable 
by the marks mentioned above. Sierra Leone to Gabun. 
C. cretacea Snell. (= gonessa Hew., leucosoma Mab., camerona Plotz) (77 e) *). It is a riddle to 
me why this species was placed to Hypoleucis, although it exactly agrees with Caenides in the shape of the 
wings, in the structure of the veins, and in the formation of the antennae. The $ is recognizable by the apical 
half of the abdomen being white above. The $ entirely agrees with that of arela. Both sexes have on the 
forewing two separate or contiguous hyaline spots in the discal cell, one discal spot each in 1 b to 3, and three 
subapical dots in 6 to 8, of which that in 7 is smaller and generally placed somewhat more towards the base. 
Hindwing above without any markings or with a pair of minute, indistinct, grey dots. Forewing beneath at 
the anal margin in 1 a and 1 b as far as the margin white or grey. Hindwing beneath somewhat hazy, almost 
unmarked or generally with some light grey postdiscal dots or streaks between the veins 1 b to 7 or rarely with 
darker, light-edged submarginal spots in the same areas. Sierra Leone to Congo. — Whether C. areda differs 
from cretacea -$ and in what way, I can for the present not decide owing to the lack of material. — ploetziana 
Strand is a form from Cameroon, in which the hyaline spots of the discal cell of the forewing are united. 
C. arela Mab. (= paucipunctata B.- Bale.) (78 f) recalls C. corduba, but it is smaller and without 
the discal spots 4 and 5 of the forewing. This species was formerly placed to Parnara, but by the formation 
of the antennae and the structure of the veins it agrees better with Caenides. West Africa: Ogowe Valley, 
Rhodesia. 
*) The figure copied from Plotz’ original figure of camerona. 
