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PRECIS. By Dr. C. Afriyilijus. 
striata. 
irdbeniusi. 
cndestina. 
jordani. 
c u rodo ce. 
shiuata. 
n-Jargoides. 
parvipvnc- 
tis. 
above light yellow, beneath nearly white, the ground-colour black-brown, without spots, or beneath with light 
spots in the basal part; the spots are, however, sharply defined, never nebulous; the cell of the forewing above 
usually with some reddish transverse streaks, ab. striata Auriv. is a form of pelasgis in which the dark basal 
area of both wings is ornamented above and beneath with two rows of blue streaks and the median band 
is light red-yellow instead of white on the under surface. In the Congo region near M’Bako. -— Strand describes 
’as frobeniusi a form from Liberia, which is unknown to me. The description runs: “The two proximal of the 
usual 4 blue transverse streaks replaced by thick light red ones, the two distal scarcely lighter than the ground¬ 
colour, but with deep black bordering; the light transverse'bands and the submarginal dots almost exactly 
as in coelestina Dew., the bands, however, a little narrower, the spots in cellules 1 b, 2 and 3 proximally cut off 
transversely and with brilliant white, broadly black-ringed pupils, of which the one in cellule 2 is the largest; 
the bands anteriorly forked as in coelestina, but the distal branch is distinctly broken up into spots, whilst 
the proximal is much narrowed posteriorly; the white dots placed between the two as in coelestina. The red 
spots in the band of the hindwing smaller and with larger black pupils than in coelestina', the marginal bands 
as in archesia, but more sharply marked; blue or blue-white dusting on the hindwing, such as occurs in the type- 
form, is here only present on the tail-appendage; the ground-colour a little darker. The upper surface really 
more resembles coelestina than archesia, but that we are dealing with a form of the latter species is proved by 
the under surface, which agrees very well with archesia', here, however, it is duller and more unicolorous, as the 
grey-whitish dusting which in the type-form is developed into 5 or 6 transverse bands or patches is here entirely 
or almost entirely absent; a darker submedian band on the hindwing is not or scarcely visible; the reddish 
transverse band darker, red-brown, on the hindwing with black dots, on the forewing with white ones, about 
as in the type-form, but that in cellule 2 considerably larger than the neighbouring ones, of which that in cellule 
3 is as distinct as that in cellule 1 b”. coelestina can always be easily distinguished from archesia by the 
entire- m a r g i n e d, unicolorous fringes. As, however, Strand in his long description says no¬ 
thing about this important character, it is impossible for me to decide whether frobeniusi belongs to archesia or 
to coelestina. Found near the border of Liberia in Upper Guinea; archesia is not otherwise known from this 
part of Africa. 
i Fourth Group. 
The species of this group may be known by the entire-margined or only slightly undulate fringes. Tire black sub- 
marginal dots are placed on both wings in the light transverse band or are entirely absent. . t gw 
P. coelestina Dew. (51 e) has the upperside of the wings uniform dark brown with red-yellow markings; 
the cell of the forewing with 3 black-edged, red-yellow transverse streaks, of which the second reaches vein 2; 
the median band is bifurcate at the costal margin and encloses three round white dots; behind vein 4 it is 
completely broken up into free, oval, black-dotted spots; the black dots in cellules lb—3 of the forewing usually 
with white pupils; both wings at the distal margin more or less red-yellow with the two usual dark marginal 
lines. Both wings beneath dark violet-brown with broad dark chestnut-brown median band and white submar- 
gina.l dots on the forewing, but otherwise without distinct markings; the fringes are unicolorous grey-brown. 
Cameroons to Angola, Uganda and Somaliland, f. jordani form. nov. is the rainy-season form and only differs 
in the slightly undulate, white-spotted fringes; the under surface somewhat more distinctly marked. Rarer 
than the type-form. 
P. eurodoce Westiv. (51 e) is black-brown above with simple red-yellow transverse band, which on the 
hindwing is widened to the distal margin and there encloses the two dark marginal lines; the black submarginal 
dots are very small or indistinct; the under surface is reddish yellow-brown, somewhat clouded, and has a sharply 
defined red-brown median line, which, however, terminates at vein 4 of the forewing; the tail at the anal 
angle of the hindwing is narrow and 5mm. in length; the fringes are unicolorous and entire-margined; cellules 
6—8 of the forewing are narrow, hence the projection at vein 6 apparently forms the apex of the wing. Ma¬ 
dagascar. 
The three fellowing species are very nearly allied and agree almost entirely in colour and markings. Both wings above 
in the dark distal part with two continuous, indistinct grey marginal lines. The median band of the upper surface encloses 
the black submarginal dots, is broad and continuous, violet-red — red-brown — yellowish or occasionally on the hinclwing 
whitish, and at the costal margin of the forewing always simple (without distal branch). The black ground-colour of the basal 
half of the forewing above makes an incision into the transverse band in cellule 3 and the forewing has nearly always 1—3 
white subapical dots. The under surface is more or less leaf-like with distinct dark median line. The distal margin of the 
forewing is distinctly, often very strongly produced at vein 6, that of the hindwing on the other hand uniform or somewhat 
ventricose; the fringes are entire-margined or rarely somewhat undulate and nearly always unicolorous. 
P. sinuafa Plotz (51 e) is smaller than the others with an expanse of 42—48 mm. and has a narrower 
median band, only 5—6 mm. in breadth in cellule 2 of the fore wing; the distal margin of the forewing is very 
deeply excised between veins 2 and 6; the under surface is almost uniform red-brown with no spots and without 
light streaks at the distal margin. Sierra Leone to the Congo, Nyassaland and Uganda. — pelargoides Auriv. 
has the under surface lighter and more spotted, with distinct white streaks or spots at the distal margin; the 
forewing is less falcate; evidently constitutes a rainy-season form. Cameroons and Congo region. — ab. par- 
