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PLANEMA, By Dr. C. Aurivillitts. 
euryta as the same species. Now, however, Dr. Jordan, who has doubtless examined the type of pseudeuryta, 
has discovered that psevdeuryta Godm. <£■ Salv. is identical with dewitzi Stgr. and not with excisa. Statjdinger 
must therefore have formerly confused dewitzi and excisa. And the <$<$ are really very similar above, as a 
glance at the figures (58 c) shows, but they are very easily distinguished by the basal half of the hindwing 
in pseudeuryta being dark brown beneath, distally bounded by a whitish median band, whilst in excisa the 
entire under surface has the ground-colour almost the same uniform light brown-yellow and lacks the median 
band. — <§: fore wing black-brown above with orange-yellow transverse band of almost uniform breadth, 
which reaches the hindmargin but scarcely the distal margin and on the proximal side is encroached upon in 
cellules 1 b and 3 by the dark ground-colour; the spots in cellules 1 b—3 are triangularly incised distally. 
The hindwing is brown-yellow above, with narroAv blackish marginal band 3—4 mm. in breadth and not sharply 
defined and the basal area more or less darkened; the under surface of the hindwing has a dark brown basal 
area and a whitish median band, 5—7 mm. in breadth, which becomes gradually narrower towards the costal 
margin. The under surface of the forewing only differs from the upper in the lighter and duller transverse 
angulata. band. The $ is unknown to me. Congo and Angola. — angulata Sufj. (59 b) seems from the description 
only to differ from pseudeuryta in having the marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing narrower at the 
anal angle and the median band whitish in the middle and perhaps belongs rather to macarista. Southern 
Congo region near Mukenge. 
identata. P. identata Btlr. (59 e) is similar to P. excisa. <$: transverse band of the forewing narrower than in 
excisa ; hindwing above similar to that of macaria, but lighter, with broad, light yellowish to light brown 
median band. $: transverse band of the foreAving white; median band of the hindwing white or slightly yellow¬ 
ish, narrower than in excisa $, distinct also beneath and basally very sharply defined, narrower than the 
dark distal margin. Cameroons to Angola. 
b) The hindwing beneath not or scarcely darker at the base than in the middle, in any case without sharply defined 
basal area, and without light median band. By this character and the consequently uniform or almost uniform 
brown-yellow to whitish ground-colour of the hindwing beneath the species of this section may be at once distin¬ 
guished from those of section a. 
excisa. P. excisa Btlr. (58 c). The differences between this species and pseudeuryta have already been 
mentioned above. The orange-yellow transverse band of the foreAving has" an almost uniform breadth of 
8—10mm. and is separated from the distal margin throughout; it is basally prolonged at the hindmargin 
and usually also accompanied proximally by yellow scales on both sides of vein 2. The upperside of the 
hindwing is broAvn-yelloAV nearly to the base, with free black dots in the basal part, black veins, sharply defined 
black marginal band about 3 mm. in breadth, and in the distal half with thick black streaks on the interneural 
folds. The forewing beneath as above, only somewhat lighter. The hindwing beneath yellow-brown to the distal 
margin, at the base a little darker and more reddish; the basal dots standing out sharply; the veins and 
the interneural streaks black as above. The $ is considerably larger and has the transverse band of the fore wing 
white, interrupted in cellule lb, and the ground-colour of the hindwing above yellowish white; the dark 
marginal band of the latter is somewhat broader and less sharply defined; the under surface of the hindwing 
is light smoke-brown, somewhat darker at the distal margin and a little more yelloAvish at the base. Cameroons 
to the Congo. 
elongata. P. elongata Btlr. (58 b, c) is an easily recognized species with the sexes marked almost alike. In 
the <$ the ground-colour is dark black-brown above with a brown-yellow transverse band only about 4 mm. 
in breadth, which reaches the hindmargin and is but little curved; its spots are rather deeply cleft distally. The 
hindAving is dark black-brown in the basal part almost to the middle and has there a red-brown transverse 
band about 10 mm. in breadth at vein 2 and narrowing anteriorly, which is completely intersected by the black 
veins and streaks between the veins; the black marginal band is sharply defined, but at the apex only 2mm. 
in breadth and gradually narrowed posteriorly; the under surface of the hindwing is uniform smoke-brown 
and the black streaks nearly reach the cell here also. The $ only differs in having the transverse band of the 
fore wing somewhat broader and much lighter. Cameroons to the Congo. 
P. consanguinea differs from the preceding in having the basal part of the forewing above more or 
less light and the light transverse band more obliquely placed, narrowed or indistinct behind vein 2 and se¬ 
parated from the light basal part by a dark transverse band of the ground-colour, avIi i le the upperside of the 
hindwing is not darkened at the base. The black streaks on the hindAving are long and reach at least the middle. 
The marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing is sharply defined and is formed nearly as in elongata. 
consangui- — consanguinea Auriv. (58 b). The basal part of the forewing above as far as vein 3 chestnut-broAvn with 
nea. or without longitudinal streak in the cell; the transverse band and the upper surface of the hindwing yellow- 
brown; the under surface of the hindwing yelloAvish grey, at the base more or less red-brown. The $ is larger 
intermedia, and lighter and has the transverse band of the forewing broader and light yelloAv. Niger to the Congo, ab. in- 
sartina. termedia Auriv. only differs in having the whole of the cell of the forewing black. Congo. — sartina Jord. 
seems to be the north-western race. Only the $ is yet known; it differs from that of the type-form in having 
the transverse band of the forewing as dark as in the and placed nearer to the base, the marginal band 
of the hindAving is broader and the ground-colour lighter; on the under surface the base is darker broAvn and 
albicolor. the ground-colour lighter. Gold Coast. — In albicolor Karsch (= arenaria E. Sharpe) (57 e, 58 b) the transverse 
