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is dorsally dark brown with yellow transverse bands and ventrally blackish; the spines on the vertex are longer 
than the rest. 
P. sophia is the smallest of the African species and has an expanse of only 38—46 mm. The upperside 
of the forewing is darker or lighter brown at the base as far as the apex of the cell, with 5 black transverse 
lines in the cell, and that of the hindwing black to vein 3; then follows a common light median band about 5 mm. 
in breadth, which is dividid into spots by the dark veins; the black-brown distal part encloses the black sub¬ 
marginal dots and two marginal lines and is adorned on the forewing with a subapical band composed of three 
light spots (in 4—6). The under surface (51 b) is yellowish white with brown veins, fine black lines at the base 
and the anal angle of the hindwing, sharply prominent black submarginal dots, two brown, black-edged trans¬ 
verse streaks in the cell of the forewing and brown or grey nebulous spots at the distal margin. —■ so- sophia. 
phia F. (51 b) has in the median band of the fore wing a curved dark transverse line, extending from the lower 
angle of the cell to vein 1, where it almost reaches the dark marginal band; the median band and the subapi- 
cal band of the forewing are light brown-yellow. Larva black with fine yellow lateral line and short spines; 
the spines on the vertex are very short, wart-shaped. The pupa is more or less watered with brownish and has 
two or three dark nebulous bands crossing the wing-cases; the head is obtuse and shallowly emarginate with 
short prominences on the eyes. Senegal to the Congo and Uganda, Natal. — infracta Rog. (51 b) only differs infracla. 
in having the dark, oblicpie transverse line in cellules lb and 2 of the forewing absent or only indicated. German 
East Africa to Uganda and Abyssinia, ab. albida Suff. (51 b) has the median band and subapical band on the albida. 
forewing white, but otherwise agrees with infracta ; is commoner in German East Africa than the form with 
yellow bands. ■— ab. leucotincta Strand agrees with albida in the white bands and apparently merely differs in leucotinda. 
having the median band of the forewing narrower and only developed in cellules 2—4. Abyssinia. 
P. westermanni has the sexes quite different; the <$ is very strikingly marked above, deep velvety 
black with a blue longitudinal spot at the costal margin of the hindwing in the basal part of cellules 6 and 7 
and two large orange-yellow areas, one on the forewing beyond the middle in celhdes 1 b—5(—6) and one on the 
hindwing near the distal margin between veins 1 b and 5; in this area 1—3 black submarginal spots are some¬ 
times visible. The $ is quite unlike the above, but individually very variable; usually both wings are black- 
grey above with black transverse streaks in the cell of the forewing and with indications of red-yellow spots 
at least in 1 b and 2; sometimes there are whitish longitudinal spots in cellules 2—6; the hindwing has a very 
broad red-yellow median band, about 11 mm. in breadth, with sharply prominent black submarginal dots, and 
is thus only black-grey at the base and the distal margin for a breadth of about 3 mm.; the under surface is 
more like that of the^. — westermanni Westw. (50 e; 51 a). The orange-yellow area of the forewing does wester- 
not completely cover the base of cellule 3; the under surface at the base whitish grey or grey (or on the forewing mamn - 
yellowish) with sharply prominent black spots and transverse lines, of which 5 are in the cell of the forewing; 
the black submarginal dots are distinct at least on the hindwing and the orange-yellow area of the forewing 
stands out more or less distinctly beneath also. The $ is very variable, but usually agrees with the description 
given above. Gold Coast to Angola. — jordani form. nov. The is smaller and the orange-yellow area jordani. 
of the forewing completely covers the base of cellule 3; the under surface has sharp black markings as in the type- 
form, but has a much darker ground-colour, on the forewing to beyond the middle orange-yellow, but on the 
hindwing dark grey with sharply prominent silver-white spots at the middle of the costal margin in cellule 7 
and with the base of cellule 2 on the hindwing bright brown-red; the $ is unknown to me. Ruwenzori. 
suffusa Rothsch. 6c Jord. is as small as jordani or smaller and on the upperside of the male similar^to it, but suffusa. 
beneath in both sexes recognizable by having the hindwing clouded, red-brown to rust-brown, without distinct 
markings. British East Africa: Kikuyu. Gives quite the impression of a dry-season form. 
P. hadrope Dbl. 6c Hew. (50 c; 51 a) is a very distinct species, in which the sexes are quite different; hadrope. 
the $ was described by Butler in 1866 as a separate species ( ixia ); in my work “Rhopalocera Aethiopica” 
I first pointed out the identity of this £ with hadrope. In the <$ the wings are dull gokl-yellow above with 
narrow dark marginal band, a large black apical area on the hindwing and two blackish transverse bands on 
the forewing, of which the distal is interrupted in the middle and partially united with the distal margin; the 
under surface is yellowish with some black and brown markings and brownish median line on the hindwing; 
the submarginal dots occur as eye-spots. The $ is white above with the base dark brown as far as vein 3, 
with two dark marginal lines, yellow-ringed submarginal eye-spots, of which those in cellules 2 and 5 of the hind¬ 
wing are larger, a brown spot near the apex of the hindwing and a dentate discal line on the forewing. Hitherto 
only found in Ashanti. 
P.Joenone L. agrees in the markings of the upper surface with westermanni in having near the base oenone. 
of the costal margin of the hindwing a blue spot, which, however, is here rounded, and in each wing a large 
yellow area, but the one on the forewing is directed from the costal margin towards the middle of the distal 
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