ARTITROPA. By Dr. 0. Aitrivillius. 
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at least in the discal cell and in 6 to 8, decorated or interrupted by large, black, oblong spots. 
Veins of the hindwing beneath white or at least somewhat lighter than the ground-colour. 
A. erinnys. 
§§. The hyaline spots in the discal cell and in area 2 of the forewing are large and yellow. Fringes of 
the forewing between the anal angle and vein 2 yellow, otherwise brown. A. shelleyi. 
[3. Fringes of the forewings yellow, with dark spots at the ends of the veins. Hindwing above quite dark 
brown, only behind the centre with a transverse row of 5 or 6 small, yellow discal spots in 1 c to 5; 
fringes of hindwings yellow. The hyaline spot in the discal cell of the forewing is larger and as broad 
as the cell itself. A. hollandi. 
B. Forewing without hyaline spots, above uni-coloured dark brown, only at the base and at the inner part 
of the proximal margin somewhat lined with greyish-yellow. A. boseae. 
A. comus Cr. (80 f). Fringes of the forewing as far as the anal angle uni-coloured, dark brown. Forewing comus. 
beneath at the anal margin only feebly lighter yellowish-grey. Hindwing above with a broad yellow median 
transverse band extending from vein 6 to the proximal margin and being almost equally broad, beneath with 
a broad silvery white transverse band which is sometimes shaped as in the figure, sometimes almost as in 
margaritata . Margin of the hindwing at vein 1 b somewhat extended, between the veins 1 a and 2 narrowly 
yellow with yellow fringes. West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Congo. — ab. reducta Auriv. differs above by reduda. 
the proximal margin of the hindwing being bright orange from the base to the anal angle and to vein 1 b, 
and the yellow median band being narrower and towards the base darkened. On the hindwing beneath the 
white median band also covers the area 1 b and is thus coherent as far as the proximal margin. Congo District: 
Kimuenza. — niargaritata IIoil. (80 f) is unknown to me in nature, but it apparently differs only by the anal marrjarita- 
margin of the forewing beneath being white as far as vein 2, and by the white spot in 1 a of the hindwing 
beneath being absent. Ogowe Valley. 
A. erinnys Tr. (80 g as erynnis) differs above from comus by the yellow median band of the hindwing erinnys. 
tapering off very much in front, and beneath by the black spots of both wings. South Africa, at least as far 
as the Zululand. —- ehlersi Karsch (— unifasciata Auriv.) represents the East African race and is distinguished ehlersi. 
by the yellowish white median band on the hindwing beneath being sharply defined between the proximal 
margin and vein 5, and by being devoid of spots except a black dot in 1 c. Kilimandjaro. — comorarum Oberth. comoramm 
is above distinguished by the area 1 b of the hindwing being bright orange in its whole length as far as the 
margin. Beneath the white median band, which is broken up into spots, only reaches to vein 1 b. Comoro 
Islands. 
A. shelleyi Em. Sharpe has remained unknown to me. From the circumstantial description we merely shelleyi. 
state the following, by which the species is easily recognized. Fringes of the hindwings yellow with small dark 
spots at the ends of the veins. Hindwing above with a yellow spot near the base and a narrow transverse 
row of yellow spots between the veins 1 b and 6. The under surface is similar to that of A. erinnys, but at 
the anal margin of the forewing as far as the vein 2 broad yellow. West Africa : Fantee. 
A. hollandi Oberth. Wings beneath at the apex of the forewing and at the centre of the margin of hollandi. 
the hindwing broadly dusted with violettish-grey; hindwing beneath at the base in 1 c, 7 and 8, and the discal 
cell with 4 or 5 black, longish spots clistally bordered with grey. In the type the forewing above only shows 
two subapical hyaline dots (in 6 and 7), and the transverse row of yellow spots on the hindwing is pointed 
towards the proximal margin. Madagascar: Antsianaka. — alaotrana Oberth. only differs by the forewing above cdaoirana. 
showing three subapical hyaline dots and by the slightly broader transverse row of yellow spots on the hindwing 
pointing towards the anal angle. Madagascar: Lake Alaotra. 
As I was unable to examine the following species, I cannot decide upon its generic position. Saalmuller 
placed it to ,,Hesperia' 1 and Obertiiur (1916) to ,,Proteides“, but Holland (1896) and Mabille (1904) to 
Artitropa. 
A. (?) boseae Sailm. (79 i). Hindwing above greyish-yellow, at, the costal and distal margins broad boseae. 
blackish-brown; the distal part of the greyish-yellow area is proximally bordered by an incomplete, nebulous 
transverse band and divided into 5 spots by the dark veins. Forewing beneath dark brown, before the apex 
mixed with violettish-grey, with rounded blackish marginal spots; at the costal margin two triangular, light 
violettish-grey spots, the first at the centre of the costal margin, with its apex extending into the discal cell, 
the second behind the centre longer and somewhat bent, behind it in 5 to 1 b a slanting row of small, indistinctly 
defined discal spots. Hindwing beneath brown mixed with violettish grey, near the base with a violettish-grey 
transverse line. Fringes at the anal angle orange. Madagascar: Nossi-Be. — aaron Oberth. only differs above aaron. 
by the hindwing showing a more sharply defined yellow discal band and by being more broadly bordered with 
orange in the anal region, and beneath by the violettish grey, subbasal transverse line not reaching to the 
proximal margin. North Madagascar. 
