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HESPERIA. By Dr. C. Auri villi us. 
machacoa- 
na. 
abscondita. 
secessa. 
trimeni. 
transvaa- 
liae. 
kituina. 
drnmus. 
H. madiacoana Btlr. is likewise very similar to H. asterodia, but, larger (31 mm) with a lighter ground¬ 
colour of the hindwing beneath and more irregular dark transverse bands. Discal spots 1 b 2 of the forewing 
larger, right behind the discal spot 2; basal spot 1 b large, double. Neither the description nor the figure shows 
whether the areas 9 to 11 of the forewing above have white spots or not. British East Africa. 
H. abscondita Plotz (75 d) is known to me only from the description and the undoubtedly somewhat 
crudely executed figure by Plotz, which is copied here. The species seems to be distinguished by the dark 
longitudinal stripe at vein 1 b in the basal part of the hindwing beneath, and it probably belongs to the asteroida- 
group. The author describes it, as follows: forewing in the cell 1 (= 1 b) towards the base with a AA'hite dct 
and half a typical spot (= discal spot 1 b 2 ) below that of the cell 2. Hindwing with a white basal dot and 
a somewhat slanting white transverse spot on the centre. Hindwing beneath white with 2 oblique, undulate, 
dark bands widening from the costal margin into the cell 1 c. Towards the base there is another narrow spot 
coherent with the first band in the cell 1 c. The space between the second band and the margin, from the costal 
margin to vein 2, is greenish-grey, bordered with white.“ Length of forewing 13 mm. ,,Africa“. 
H. secessa Trim. The dry season form having been described first deviates from the other species 
by the median band of the hindwing beneath being very much darkened, of a light ferruginous brown and 
thereby neither distinctly contrasting with the similarly coloured basal part nor with the interior dark transverse 
band; the latter is only represented by some indistinct nebulous spots; outwards, however, the median band 
is sharply defined by a blackish-brown line; this line forms the interior margin of the exterior dark transverse 
band, which is otherwise but slightly darker than the ground-colour. Still more peculiar are the very broad 
fringes of the forewings; they are above in their interior half jet-black with minute whitish-grey spots at the 
ends of the veins, but in the exterior half uni-coloured light reddish-grey, beneath uni-coloured reddish- 
grey without spots. Darnara Land, Ovambo Land, Rhodesia, Mashona Land. — trimeni form. nov. (75 d, as 
,,secussa“) is probably the rainy season form and deviates from the dry season form by the ground-colour being 
yellowish white, as the figure shows, with distinctly prominent dark transverse bands. The fringes of the wings 
as usually speckled black and white. Rhodesia. 
H, transvaaliae Trim, is a small species approximating the following species, but wanting the basal 
spot 1 b of the forewing. Forewing above: the basal spot of the discal cell is small, oblong; the central luna 
large, almost square; discal spot 1 b 1 also large and square, 1 b 2 absent, 2 at least sometimes parted. Hindwing 
above with a basal dot and a complete straight median band in 1 b to 7. Both wings above with a complete 
or almost complete row of submarginal spots. Forewing beneath spotted almost as above, at the anal margin 
somewhat lighter. Hindwing in the basal area dark with distinct white spots, one square spot each in the areas 
7 and 8 and in the discal cell, and a longitudinal streak in 1 c; the median band from the costal margin 
to vein 1 b coherent and almost equally broad, but with uneven edges; marginal part blackish-grey with 
some AA'hite submarginal spots. Transvaal arid Zulu Land. 
H. kituina Karsch (= bettoni Btlr.). The description shows that this species, having hitherto hardly 
been heard of is the same as H. bettoni. I copy here Karsch’s original description. ,,Wings above blackish-green, 
beneath lighter. Forewing above with small white spots: in the cell a small punctiform spot before the centre 
and a larger spot beyond the centre very near to a fine white cell-end line; behind the larger spot of the cell 
two larger spots, one each in 2 and 1 b, the anterior of which is somewhat more outwardly placed; moreover, 
between the cell and the apex of the wing, in 6 to 8, three heaped small spots and behind them an isolated 
small spot in 3; finally there are two distinct minute spots near the distal margin in 4 and 5, which belong 
to a series of almost quite extinct small spots parallel to the margin. Hindwing above with a white punctiform 
spot in the cell near the base, right beyond the cell-end a band of larger white spots, which is anteriorly 
broadly truncate and extends into the space between the veins 8 and 7, being outside and inside feebly crenulate 
and posteriorly narroAA'ly terminating towards the anal angle; between this band and the distal margin parallel 
to the latter a row of small AA'hite spots, of which those in 2, 4 and 5 are more distinct . On the forewing beneath 
all the spots are larger than above, and the posterior margin is whitish on the distal half. Hindwing 
beneath right beyond the cell-end crossed by a white oblique band towards the hind-margin near the anal 
angle, being expanded at the costal margin AA’here it encloses a round dark green spot, and being outside and 
inside feebly crenulate; the base is also of a whitish colour. Fringes speckled black and AA'hite. Expanse of 
AA'ings: 19 mm.“ British East Africa: Kitui. By the position of the second white spot in the cell of the 
forewing as A\ ell as by the dark spot at the costal margin (in 7) in the white median band of the hindAA ing beneath 
this species differs from all the other African species. 
H. dromus Plotz (75 c). ForeAving above: central luna narrow; discal spot 1 b 1 large, 1 b 2 very small 
or absent ; no AA'hite spots in 9 to 11. Hindwing above with a basal dot and a broad, black bent median band 
in 1 c to 6. The marking beneath is seen from the figure; the ground-colour of the hindwing, however, is 
often more yellowish. Natal to KiUmancIjaro and Gabun. 
