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ANTANARTIA. By Dr. G. Aurivillius. 
dbyssinica. 
hippomene. 
madegasso- 
rum. 
schaeneia. 
diluta. 
borbonica. 
mauriliana. 
America, with which they have superficially a very great similarity. Through the investigations made by 
Rothschild and Jordan in 1903 it has, however, been established that the South American Hypanartia species 
differ entirely from the African species in the structure of the last dorsal plate of the abdomen. Hence the 
new genus Antanartia was erected for the latter. 
The antenna is long, extending far beyond the apex of the cell of the forewing; its club is sharply defined, 
oval and much flattened. The cell of both wings is closed. Veins 10 and J1 of the forewing arise before the apex 
of the cell and vein 9 from the stalk of 7 + 8, much nearer to 8 than to the apex of the cell. Vein 3 of the hind¬ 
wing arises distinctly before the lower angle of the cell and the precostal vein is long and quite straight or 
curved a little towards the base. In the nearly allied genus Pyrameis the precostal vein of the hindwing is curved 
distad and vein 3 of the hindwing arises from the lower angle of the cell. 
The ground-colour of the wings above is blackish to dark brown and the forewing has on both sur¬ 
faces ^ an obliquely placed red-yellow transverse band which begins at the costal margin before the middle 
and extends in a gentle curve to the hindmargin near the anal angle, covering the apex of the cell; on the 
upperside this is usually continued more or less distinctly at the distal margin of the hindwing. Before the 
apex of the forewing there is a curved row of white submarginal dots and between these and the transverse 
band usually a transverse row or band of three small whitish or light yellow spots in cellules 5, 6 and 8—10. 
The hindwing has a more or less complete row of submarginal eye-spots and its under surface is dark with 
confused cloudy markings. 
Larva spined as in Pyrameis. Pupa with two long sharp points on the head and strongly developed 
protuberances on the dorsal surface; the elevation on the mesotborax is large and at the end strongly compressed, 
wedge-shaped and the tubercles on the third abdominal segment are bent round like hooks. 
1 divide the species into two groups. 
First Group. 
a 
Distal margin of the liindwing not produced or tailed at vein 4, but uniformly curved and only shortly and obtusely 
dentate, at the extremity of vein 2 a little more produced than at the other veins. The costal margin of the forewing beneath 
with white transverse striae at the base, as in hippomene. 
A. abyssinica Fldr. (52 d) is the smallest species, only measuring 33—34 mm. from tip to tip of the fore¬ 
wings; the upperside of the hindwing has a narrow red-yellow marginal band, which is usually separated 
by a black marginal line from the distal margin itself; the subapical band of the forewing is broader than in 
the other species and yellowish. Kilimandjaro to Abyssinia and Ruwenzori. 
Second Group. 
The distal margin of the hindwing forms a distinct projection at vein 4 and has there a distinct tail. 
A. hippomene Hbn. (52 d) differs from the three following species in having the costal margin of the 
forewing beneath adorned with whitish transverse striae at the base as far as the transverse band; the forewing 
has on the upperside a sharply defined red-yellow marginal band, which, however, only reaches vein 3, and a 
short tail at vein 4; the antennal club black beneath. Cape to Abyssinia and Ruwenzori; also in the interior 
of the Cameroons. -— madegassorum Auriv. is the race which occurs on Madagascar, and only differs in having 
the club of the antenna rust-yellow beneath and the tail of the liindwing longer. 
A. schaeneia Trim. (52 d) is very similar above to the preceding species, but is a little larger and with 
a longer tail at vein 4 of tlie hindwing. The under surface differs in the colouring and markings of the hindwing 
(cf. the figures) and especially in the cell of the forewing having an eye-spot before the middle and in the costal 
margin being unicolorous dark brown from the base to the transverse band, without fohite transverse striation. 
Cape to Brit. East Africa and Uganda. -— diluta Rothsch. & Jord. differs in having the transverse band of the 
forewing lighter, in the $ whitish, and the orange-yellow marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing much 
narrower and ornamented with a dark marginal line. Abyssinia. 
A. borbonica Oberth. is even larger than schaeneia (length of the forewing about 34 mm.), but other¬ 
wise so similar that it is probably scarcely more than a race of this. The orange-yellow marginal band on the 
upperside of the hindwing lias distinct dark transverse streaks at its distal edge, as in diluta ; the most impor¬ 
tant difference from schaeneia seems to consist in the under surface of the hindwing being ornamented with 
sharply prominent, irregularly broken, light transverse lines. The larva lives on Boehmeria (Pilea) urticae- 
folia Spreng.; it is red-violet with red-yellow spines, black at the tips, and has on segments 4—11 a broad whitish, 
black-spotted lateral line; the first segment has no spines, the second and third three at each side and segments 
4—11 in addition a spine in the dorsal line. Madagascar and Bourbon. — mauritiana Manders is somewhat 
