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smaller and further differs in having the orange-yellow transverse band of the forewing on both surfaces incised 
or irregular at the hindmargin of the cell; in the type-form, on the other hand, this band is proximally nearly 
straight and distally uniformly curved. Mauritius; now very rare. 
A. delius Drury (52 c) differs from the other species in the shape of the wings, the distal margin of delius. 
the forewing being much more deeply emarginate and the hindwing having two tails, a longer one at vein 4 and 
a shorter at vein 2. The transverse band of the forewing is red-brown above, light yellow beneath, begins 
nearer to the base of the costal margin, does not cover the apex of the cell, bends round sharply towards 
the hindmargin at vein 2 and is more or less extended towards the base in cellules 1 b and I a; the upper- 
side of the hindwing is for the most part red-yellow or red-brown, with blackish base, thick black transverse 
spot at the end of the cell and dark marginal band, which at least in the $ encloses a red-yellow line in cellules 
4—6. The under surface, as in the other species, is variegated and the cell of the forewing has near the base 
a white-ringed eye-spot. Sierra Leone to the Congo. — d'-ab. nigrescens Suff. has instead of the red-yellow nigrescens. 
transverse band of the forewing only a red-yellow hindmarginal spot, which reaches the middle of cellule 2. Togo. 
— amauroptera E. Sharpe has the upperside of the hindwing almost uniform black-brown and the transverse amaurop- 
band of the forewing chestnut-brown and also in part indistinct. Uganda: Toro. tera - 
8. Subfamily: Argynnidinae. 
The members of this subfamily may be at once known by the structure of the palpus (cf. the synopsis, 
p. 122). The cell of the forewing is closed and the precostal vein of the hindwing in all the Ethiopian genera 
arises after the separation of vein 8 from the cell. — The larvae with 4—6 spines on each segment from 2—12, 
but the head unarmed. 
All the species are at least in the male orange to brown-yellow above, with black markings, and on the 
underside of the hindwing often ornamented with silvery or pearly markings. 
The subfamily Argynnidinae is comparatively poor in species in the Ethiopian Region. With regard 
to their geographical distribution the reader is referred to what is said on the subject in vol. I, p. 211. 
The four Ethiopian genera may be easily distinguished by the following synopsis. 
Synopsis of the Genera. 
I. Veins 3 and 4 of the forewing from a point or short-stalked. 
A. Eyes hairy. Vein 10 of the forewing arises before or from the apex of the cell. 1. S m e r i n a. 
B. Eyes naked. Vein 10 of the fore wing arises behind the apex of the cell from the stalk of 7+8+ 9. 
a) Cell of the hindwing open. The with large black-grey pilose spot in cellules 5—-7 of the hindwing 
above. 2. Lachnoptera. 
b) Cell of the hindwing closed and veins 3 and 4 stalked. The without pilose spot. 3. A t e 11 a. 
II. Veins 3 and 4 of the forewing widely separated. Eyes naked. 4. A r g y n n i s. 
1. Genus: ftmeriiia Hew. 
Forewing narrowly triangular with the apex produced and the distal margin weakly emarginate. Hind¬ 
wing with the distal margin rounded and almost entire. Head broad with long palpus, of which the second 
joint is large and broad. The early stages are unknown. 
S. manoro Ward (52 d). Both wings brown-yellow above, darker at the base, with black or blackish manoro. 
markings; the costal margin of the forewing dark, also some streaks in the cell and a large transverse spot, 
widened towards the costal margin, at the end of the cell of the forewing, the apex of the forewing for a breadth 
of 8—10 mm. and a common marginal band about 3 mm. in breadth, in the G sharply defined, in the $ lighter, 
proximally diffuse, and enclosing two dark lines; before-the marginal band there is usually a row of dark dots 
or streaks; in the black apex of the forewing 3 round yellowish spots are placed in a triangle. The under 
surface is red-brown or grey-brown with some fine dark transverse lines and dots and with a thick blackish, 
nearly straight median line, distally margined with silver-white, and silvery nebulous spots at the anal angle 
of the hindwing and before the apex and in the cell of the forewing. Madagascar, in the higher wooded districts 
near Tamatave. One of the greater rarities among the butterflies of Madagascar. 
2. Genus: T^aclmoptera DU. 
Wings large and broad, with undulate margins; the apex of the fore wing not produced, obtusely rounded; 
its distal margin nearly straight, only between veins 3 and 6 weakly emarginate. Hindwing with the costal 
margin short and almost straight, the apex broadly rounded, the distal margin more or less distinctly angled 
