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PLANEMA. By Dr. C. AuRiVTLLnjs. 
proximally both in cellule 3 and at vein 2, and with a white median band on the hind wing, 14—15 mm. in 
breadth; the marginal band of the hindwing is sharply defined, as in the and has thick black streaks on 
meruana. the interneural folds. Nyassaland to British East Africa. $-ab. meruana Rogenh. Transverse band of the 
nicega. hindwing smoky yellowish. Mem Mountain, ab. nicega Suff. has the transverse band of the forewing in the $ 
only 2.5—3 mm. in breadth and the median band of the hindwing in the $ light yellow instead of white. Nyassa¬ 
land. 
aganice. P. aganice Hew. (58 d) nearly approaches the preceding species, but has a narrower transverse band on 
the forewing and especially a much narrower median band on the hindwing; these are in the <$ white-yellow 
or white, in the $ white; the transverse band of the forewing is in the <$ often almost broken up into spots 
and the spot in cellule 1 b very small or absent; the ground-colour in fresh specimens is almost black and the 
sharply defined marginal band of the hindwing in both sexes is-9—11mm. in breadth; the base of the hind¬ 
wing is nearly black above, dark brown beneath; thus the sexes differ but little from one another. — Larva whitish 
green with long yellowish spines, yellow-brown head, and blue dots dorsally and laterally. Pupa whitish 
green with four pairs of long light red dorsal spines as in camerunica and small divaricating horns on the head. 
This species in the only endemic Planema in South Africa and is distributed from Kaffirland to Zambesi; in 
East Africa it is represented by P. montana, which is probably only a race of the same species. 
scalivlttata. P. scalivittata Btlr. (58 d) is very similar to aganice, only differing in the narrow white transverse 
band of the forewing consisting of two broadly separated parts; one part is placed at the middle of the costal 
margin and is composed of 5 small spots in cellules 4—6, 10 and 11; the other j)art only consists of two spots in 
cellules 2and 3, placed vertically to the hindmargin and only 2—4mm. from the distal margin; the two di¬ 
visions of the transverse band are thus about 3 mm. apart at vein 4. Nyassaland. 
leopoldina. P. leopoldina Auriv. (59 c) agrees with the three last-named species in the transverse band of the fore- 
whig in the <$ not reaching the hindmargin, but differs in its being 6—7 mm. in breadth and quite continuous 
and at veins 2 and 3 almost reaching the distal margin; the transverse band is light orange-yellow and the 
spots in cellules 2 and 3 are broadly conical, distally somewhat emarginate and basally rounded; the ground¬ 
colour of the upper surface is blackish and the median band of the hindwing is about 10 mm. broad in the 
middle, proximally rectilinear, distally somewhat excurved, its colour white-yellow above but whitish beneath; 
the dark marginal band is about 7 mm. in breadth and sharply defined. The $ is not known to me. Congo 
region, near Leopoldville. 
macrosticha. P. macrosticha Baker is unknown to me, but according to information obligingly furnished by Dr. Jor¬ 
dan it is similar to P. leopoldina. The original description runs: “<$: Both wings blackish brown, yellowish 
fawn-colour. Primaries with basal area black to end of cell, with a confluent black spot projecting forwards in 
the angle of veins 3 and 4; a broad postmedian band of yellowish fawn-colour from costa to termen below 
vein 3, but not reaching quite into the tornus, i. e. not below vein 1 a; apical area blackish brown to below 
vein 3: secondaries sooty brown for a restricted basal area, not to the end of the cell; postmedian area very 
broadly yellowish pale fawn-colour right up to the tornus, invaded by the black veins and also by fine black 
internervular lines; termen broadly blackish brown at the apex, tapering down very finely to the tornus. Un¬ 
derside : secondaries with base Indian-red, with two or three basal small spots; a median series of four, an 
irregular curved series of eight spots, those between veins 5 and 6 and 6 and 7 shifted outwards; postme¬ 
dian band whitish, not half the width of the yellowish band above, rest of area exceedingly broadly brownish grey. 
Expanse 80 mm.” Congo: Makala. 
P. quadricolor may be easily known by having the basal half of the forewing above bright chestnut- 
brown and separated from the bright orange-yellow transverse band by an irregularly interrupted line of the 
black ground-colour. The transverse band reaches to the hindmargin or at least to vein 1 and at vein 2 
almost to the distal margin. The hinclwing has a sharply defined, narrow (4—6 mm. in breadth) white or 
light yellow median band. The apex of the forewing and the marginal band of the hindwing (8—10 mm. in breadth) 
quadricolor. are almost pure black. — quadricolor Rogenh. (58 c). The orange-yellow transverse band of the forewing is 
about 4 mm. in breadth in cellule 3 and leaves a considerable part of the base of this cellule free. The median 
leptis. band of the hindwing in both sexes white. German East Africa. — leptis Jord. (59 d). The transverse band 
of the fore wing in cellule 3 only 2 mm. in breadth, posteriorly indistinct or broken up into spots; median band 
latifasciata. of the hindwing white. Brit. East Africa: Nairobi. -—- latifasciata E. Sharpe (58 d). The transverse band of the 
forewing in cellule 3 6—8 mm. in breadth, only leaving a very small part of the base of the cellule free; the 
proximal black boundary of the transverse band is very narrow and the median band of the hindwing above is 
itumbana. light yellow in the<J, white in the 2. Ruwenzori and Uganda as far as Mt. Elgon. — itumbana Jord. The 
transverse band of the forewing is even broader than in latifasciata', in the d about 9 mm. in breadth; the me¬ 
dian band of the hindwing white. German East Africa: Itumba. 
adrasta. P. adrasta Weym. (= haydni Suff.) (57 f). The wings are blackish above and have on the fore wing 
a transverse band about 10 mm. in breadth, which is light ochre-yellow in the white in the $ and is almost 
straight on its proximal side from the costal margin to vein 2 and occasionally terminates at vein 2; on its 
distal edge the band is incised in cellules 2 and 3 and at veins 2 and 3 reaches the distal margin. The hind- 
