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band of the forewing is white and the parts of the upper surface which in the type-form are red-brown to 
yellow-brown are dirty sand-yellow (<J) or white ($); the under surface of the hindwing is light grey to"white 
as far as the base. Uganda. 
P. epiprotea Btlr. (58 b) is distinguished by having the transverse band of the forewing placed far be- epiprotea. 
yond the apex of the cell, so that it may be regarded rather as a subapical than a median band; it is straight, 
directed towards the hindmargin and posteriorly bounded by vein 3, in the smoke-yellow and 4 mm. in breadth, 
in the $ white and 7 mm. in breadth; in the $ the basal part of the forewing to vein 3 is smoke-brown, 
but in the $ black-brown with a small white hindmarginal spot, which only reaches the fold of cellule 1 b, but is 
continued on the hindwing as an indistinct median band to vein 2 or 3. In the <$ the hindwing is smoke- 
brown above, somewhat darker towards the distal margin. The under surface of the hindwing in both sexes is 
smoke-grey to the base. Niger to the Congo. 
Second Group. 
Forewing beneath at the base of the costal margin in cellule 12 with a small, quadrate white spot, bordered with 
black on both sides, and above with a large, sharply defined, light hindmarginal spot, reaching vein 3 but not the base. Fore¬ 
wing in addition with an obliquely placed subapical band, almost midway between the end of the cell and the apex of the wing, 
directed towards the hindmargin and composed of 5 or 6 spots in cellules 3—6, (9) and 10. The species of this group may 
be at once distinguished from all the preceding by the markings. 
P. schubofzi Griinb. Body as in P. tellus \ upperside of the forewing black, subapical band 5 mm. schubotzi. 
in breadth in cellule 5, white tinged with yellowish; hindmarginal spot as in tellus, bright ochre-yellow, 11 mm. 
in breadth at vein 2, 16.5 mm. at the hindmargin ; hindwing bright oclire-yellow, the black marginal band very 
narrow, only 2—3 mm. in breadth at the apex and scarcely reaching vein 3; the black basal spots of the under 
surface showing through faintly, the black veins and interneural stripes narrow. Under surface of the forewing 
black, subapical band white, apex and distal margin to before the hinder angle sprinkled with ochre-yellow 
scales; hindwing beneath with cpiite uniform oclire-yellow ground-colour without marginal band. In the 
$ the subapical band and the hindmarginal spot of the forewing are pure white on both surfaces, the subapi¬ 
cal band is 8 mm. in breadth in cellule 5 and the hindmarginal spot not widened posteriorly, 11.5 mm in breadth 
at vein 2 and at the hindmargin, at the latter faintly edged with ochre-yellow on each side; the hincl- 
wing as in the <£, but the marginal band broader, 3.5 mm. in breadth at the apex and reaching to vein 2; the 
under surface also almost entirely as in the <$. In the interior of the Congo region. 
P. tellus Auriv. (58 a). The hindmarginal spot of the forewing is broad, posteriorly much widened, at tellus. 
the hindmargin about 13mm. in breadth and hence covering far more than half of the hindmargin and also 
completely filling up the proximal part of cellule 2; the black marginal band on the upperside of the hind¬ 
wing is about 4 mm. in breadth at the apex, becomes gradually narrower posteriorly, but reaches the anal angle ; 
the subapical band of the forewing distally without sharp projection at vein 4. In the type-form the ground¬ 
colour of the hindwing and the hindmarginal spot of the forewing are orange-yellow and the subapical 
band of the forewing somewhat lighter yellow and in cellule 5 in the G 5, in the $ 7 mm. in breadth; $$ with 
white markings also occur, but are rare. In the A the cell of the forewing is often more or less filled up with 
orange-yellow on both surfaces. Cameroons to the Congo, ^-ab. lustella Suff. differs in having the subapical lustellci. 
band of the forewing united with the hindmarginal spot. — eumelis Jord. (= platyxantha Jord.) (59 a) is an eumelis. 
eastern race, in which the subapical band of the forewing is somewhat broader and the hindmarginal spot 
smaller; the marginal band of the hindwing is narrower and the orange-yellow parts are lighter than in the 
type-form. Toro and Uganda. 
P. epitellus Stgr. is in many respects intermediate between tellus and epaea,, but is probably more epitellus. 
nearly allied to the latter. The brown subapical band of the forewing is formed as in epaea, the spot hi cellule 
3 being placed nearer to the distal margin and almost free; the hindmarginal spot, on the other hand, 
is even somewhat larger and broader than in tellus ; the black marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing 
is of uniform breadth and reaches the inner margin; the under surface of the hindwing is not yellow-brown 
but dirty brown-grey and has before the fringes a narrow whitish marginal line, which is entirely absent in 
the allied species. German East Africa. 
P. epaea is distinguished by having the hindmarginal spot of the forewing narrow and of fairly uniform 
breadth, at the hindmargin not or scarcely broader than half the hindmargin and not filling up the base of 
cellule 2, while the black marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing is in the d suddenly much wi¬ 
dened at the apex, but in the $ often very broad. On the under surface of the hinclwing the basal area is 
brighter red-yellow than the other parts of the wing. — epaea Cr. (58 a). d- Ground-colour of the hindwing epaea. 
above, hindmarginal spot and subapical band of the fore wing yellow-brown; hind wing beneath in the distal 
part more or less suffused with broAvn-grey and in the middle somewhat lighter. $. Subapical band and hind¬ 
marginal spot of the forewing white and also a median band on the hindwing, 7 mm. in breadth, which forms a 
continuation of the hindmarginal spot of the forewing; the whole distal half of the hindwing, on the other 
hand, black-grey on both surfaces, Avith black veins and streaks. Senegambia to Angola and the upper Congo. 
— $-ab. lutosa Suff. is a female form which differs in having the white markings of the typical $ light lutosa. 
clay-yellow and the proximal part of the dark distal half of the hindwing above broadly light broAvn to dark 
yellow-broAvn or olive-brown; the pure black outer part of the distal half consequently retains almost the same 
shape as in the <$. Cameroons to the Congo. — insularis Auriv. is a race in which the o only differs from insularis. 
