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is even lighter broAvn-yellow and has only a dark marginal line instead of the band; approximates to the form 
jacksoni. Angola. -— $-ab. nubilata Eltr. “The darker areas are sepia black. The base of forewing cell, the nubilata. 
inner-marginal patch, and the basal half of the hindwing are dark sepia grey. The forewing subapical band is 
greyish white”. Zululand. — The three following forms differ from the preceding in the smaller and narrower 
hindmarginal spot of the forewing, which always leaves the base of cellules 1 a and 1 b free and also scarcely 
if at all covers the base of cellule 2. — masaris Oberth. (57 c) is on an average smaller than esebria; the light masaris. 
markings are red-yellow or brown-yellow in the S and white or light yellow in the the subapical band is 
scarcely broader than in the type-form. Comoro Islands and quite similar forms also in Usambara. — pro- protea. 
tea Trim. (57 c) may be at once known by the small, not sharply defined hindmarginal spot of the forewing, 
which does not extend beyond vein 2; the subapical band of the forewing is narrow and its spots in cellules 
4—6 are never longer than the black basal part of the cellules; the base of the hindwing above blackish, often 
as far as vein 2, and the marginal band of the hindwing broad; the light markings are light yellow in the A, 
light yellow or white in the $. Cape to Angola and British East Africa, f. monteironis Btlr. (57 d) is similar monteironis. 
to protea and like this has a small hindmarginal spot on the forewing, anteriorly bounded by vein 2; all the 
light markings are white, rarely light yellow; it differs from protea in the long, broad subapical band of the fore¬ 
wing, which is about 6 mm. in breadth and has usually a spot in cellule 2 also. Angola, Mashonaland, German 
and British East Africa. 
A. jodutta F. (57 e). Wings above black-brown; the forewing as in esebria with a light subapical band, jodutta. 
which is always broad and has a spot in 3, and a sharply defined hindmarginal spot about 6 mm. in breadth, 
reaching vein 3 but leaving the base of cellules 1 a and 1 b free; the hindmarginal spot is continued on 
the hindwing as a median band of equal breadth or somewhat widened; the light markings are dull light ' 
yellow in the <$, pure white in the $. Senegal to the Cameroons. iji-ab. carmentis Dbl. & Hew. (57 e) only carmentis. 
differs from the $ of the type-form in the subapical band of the fore wing having a spot in cellule 2 also 
so that it is merely separated from the hindmarginal spot by a fine line of the ground-colour. Among the 
type-form. — $-ab. dorotheae E. Sharpe (57 d as pseudoprotea and metaprotea). The subapical band of dorotheae. 
the fore wing is orange-yellow to whitish; the hindwing and the hindmarginal spot of the f ore wing are orange- 
yellow; the former has thick black streaks on the folds and its marginal band is only developed in the anterior 
part and even there only 2—3 mm. in breadth. Uganda and British East Africa. —- $-ab. interjecta Eltr. interjecta. 
The subapical band of the forewing white; the hindmarginal spot of the forewing only indicated by light ochre- 
yellow scales except in la, where it is sharply defined; a white longitudinal streak in 2 near the distal margin; 
basal half of the hindwing light ochre-yellow, distal half suffused with red-brown and at the apex blackish. 
British East Africa. -— $-ab. subfulva Eltr. only differs from the typical $ in having the distal half of the subfulva. 
hindwing above red-brown and only at the distal margin more or less blackish. Sierra Leone. — $-ab. castanea castanea. 
Eltr. (59 a). The subapical band of the fore wing indistinct, dark grey; hindmarginal spot yellow-brown; hind¬ 
wing above chestnut-brown with narrow black marginal band only 3 mm. in breadth and narrowed towards 
the anal angle, beneath dark broAvn-grey, at the base reddish. Lagos. — $-ab. inaureata Eltr. (57 d, as amphi- inaureata. 
protea; 59 d). Wings bright broAvn-yelloAv at the base of the cell, in l a and 1 b nearly to the distal margin 
and at the base of cellule 2; subapical band white; hindAving above bright broAvn-yellow, not darkened at the 
base and vdthout dark marginal band, at the distal margin Avith distally thickened black longitudinal streaks. 
Nyassaland. — aethiops Rothsch. <£■ Jord. is the Abyssinian race and differs in the male in having the hind- aethiops. 
marginal spot of the forewing broader, so that at the hindmargin it is only 3 mm. from the base, while 
the cell has a nebulous spot and the black parts of the hindwing are narrower. In the $ the subapical band 
is Avhite or orange-ye IIoav, the hindmarginal spot large and orange-yelloAv and the upperside of the hind wing 
almost entirely orange-yellow, the black rays in the posterior part indistinct. 
A. disjuncta Sm. (=nandensis E. Sharpe) (60 c) resembles a small S °f jodutta; both Avings blackish disjuncia. 
above Avith light yellow markings; the hindmarginal spot of the forewing is broad, without, however, reaching 
the base of cellules 1 a and 1 b; the subapical band is about 4 mm. in breadth and has a small spot in 3, which 
touches the hindmarginal spot; the median band on the upperside of the hindwing is about 8 mm. in breadth 
and the dark, sharply defined marginal band consequently at most 3 mm. Nandi, RuAvenzori; Lake Kiwi. 
A. conjuncta Sm. has an expanse of only 40—-46 mm. and the sexes are similarly marked and coloured, conjuncta. 
Wings above Avith blackish, beneath with dark grey ground-colour; the dark ochre-yelloAv hindmarginal spot is 
about 4 mm. in breadth, reaches vein 3 without completely covering the base of cellule 2, occasionally also 
forms a small spot at the base of cellule 3 and joins the spot in the cell, which, however, forms almost a 
right angle Avith the hindmarginal spot; the small subapical spots are also dark yelloAv; the hindAving is dark 
yellow, at the base and the inner and distal margins blackish; the marginal band about 3 mm. in breadth. 
The under surface is lighter, but otherwise little different. British East Africa. — f. interrupta Eltr. has the intermpta. 
median transverse band of the foreAving broken up into separate spots. $-ab. silacea Eltr. The light markings silacea. 
of the upper surface are light yelloAv. $-ab. mutata Eltr. only differs from silacea in having the subapical spots mutata. 
of the foreAAdng white. $-ab. pica Eltr. has all the light markings white. $-ab. lutealba Eltr. has the light spots pica. 
of the forewing orange-yelloAv and the median band of the hindwing white. §-ab. suffusa Eltr. is character- 
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