HESPERIA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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a. Both wings at least above with white submarginal dots. 
*. Forewing as usually with white discal spots in 1 b to 3, 6 to 8. 
§. Hindwing beneath blackish, at the hind-margin only in the marginal halves of the areas 
1 a and 1 b whitish, in the centre with two (or three) narrow white, black-edged transverse 
lines, the first of which (before the centre) reaches neither the costal margin nor the vein 
1 b, whilst the outmost one begins behind the costal margin, reaches to the light area 1 b and 
is very much bent; the costal margin is consequently dark in its whole length. 
H. sandaster. 
§§. Hindwing beneath much lighter, with more variegated colours and a broad whitish median 
transverse band. 
+ . Hindwing beneath without a white submarginal band, at most with some separate 
whitish antemarginal spots in 4 to 6; the light median band is almost equally broad. 
H. sataspes. 
H. nana. 
+ +. Hindwing beneath (close) before the margin with a coherent, white or whitish 
submarginal band. 
1. Discal spot 2 of the forewing above single. 
a. The light median band of the hindwing beneath is very broad, posteriorly 
somewhat tapering. Discal spot 1 b 1 of the forewing above parted into two 
streaks by the fold, 1 b 2 very small, punctiform. A larger species, about 26 mm. 
H. rehfousi. 
b. The light median band of the hindwing beneath is narrow, straight and equally 
broad. Discal spot 1 b 1 of the forewing above single. A smaller species, about 
21 mm. H. delagoae. 
2. Discal spot 2 of the forewing above parted into two spots; discal spot 1 b 1 parted 
into two streaks by the fold. The discal band of the hindwing above is long and 
narrow, coherent. H. zebra. 
**. Forewing without discal spots in 2 to 8. H. melaleuca. 
(3. Both wings without any white submarginal dots. H. mangana. 
II. Both wings beneath almost as above with separate white dots or spots on a brown or reel-brown ground. 
H. colotes. 
H. ploetzi Auriv. (= spio Plotz) (75 c). The figure is a copy of Plotz’ original figure, but it is evidently ploeizi. 
quite crude or it represents a rare aberration. The under surface of the hindwing is of a most variable marking, 
but it is always distinguished by the yellowish-white median band being single and continuous only from the 
costal margin to vein 3, but then either entirely filled up by two dark longitudinal spots of the areas 2 and 
1 c or divided into two fine branches, the interior one of which reaches the vein 1 b near its centre, whilst the 
other reaches the apex of vein 2. The veins are more or less whitish, whereby the dark transverse bands are 
often broken up into elongate spots; basal area light, spotless. Forewing with basal spots in 1 b and the cell, 
discal spots in 1 b to 3, 6 to 8 (spots 1 b 1 large, 1 b 2 small, right behind that in 2), with a fine central luna 
and distinct submarginal dots. The upper surface of the hindwing deviates from that of all the other species 
by the discal spots 3 to 6 forming an almost equally broad, erect transverse band pointing towards the margin. 
Sierra Leone to Congo. — rebeli Higgins (= zebra Rbl.) is merely one of the numerous variations of this rebeli. 
species and distinguished by the lighter veins of the hindwing beneath and by a light slanting stripe proceeding 
from the median band in area 7 and reaching the margin at the apex of vein 5. On Lake Tanganyika, a similar 
specimen (^) also from Cameroon. 
H. asterodia Trim. (75 c; quite misleading by the glaring colours and inaccurate marking). Forewing asterodia. 
above with oblong white spots at the costal margin in 9 to 11; discal spot 1 b 2 behind that in 2, 5 often absent . 
Basal spot 1 b indistinct or absent. Hindwing above without or with an indistinct basal dot; discal band long, 
composed of frequently somewhat separate spots of the areas 1 c to 6 (to 7). Hindwing beneath with a whitish 
or yellowish ground-colour, in the basal area almost spotless; the light median band is more coherent, towards 
the hind-margin often somewdiat narrowed though not interrupted; the dark transverse bands are brown, 
often with black transverse streaks, and the distal one is not rarely narrowly interrupted at vein 5; the light 
marginal part is more or less spotted. Cape Colony and Transvaal. 
H. agylla Trim, is unknown to me, but according to Trimen very closely allied to asterodia. It is agylla. 
smaller with purely white markings and larger discal spots above. On the under surface the ground-colour 
of the hindwing and the apex of the forewing are darker, and the fringes at the ends of the veins are distinctly 
spotted black. The hindwing beneath is dark at the base, but with a short white subbasal band, which is 
connected with the white median band by 1 or 2 very fine white lines. Cape Colony. 
