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and in the proximal half of cellule 2, scaled with red-yellow. A. igola $. 
2. Porewing in the basal half not or only indistinctly reddish scaled, semitransparent; veins 
usually broadly edged with black and the cell with a dark spot. A. parrhasia 
A. peneleos 
b) Forewing in the apical part fully scaled and with sharply defined red or whitish spots in 4—6. 
* Subapical band of the forewing above red, beneath yellowish. The red colour in cellule 1 b of the 
fore wing above divided by a large black spot and with a black longitudinal streak at the base. 
The cell of the forewing with a black spot. A. buschbecki. 
** Subapical band of the forewing whitish. The red colour in cellule 1 b not divided. 
A. orina $. 
A. semivitrea Auriv. (27 b). Forewing diaphanous with fine black veins and black margins; the broad semivitrea. 
marginal band forms on its proximal side triangular black spots on veins 2—5. Hindwing above at the base 
black-brown with black dots and at the distal margin with a broad black band, between these with light median 
band, widened at the inner margin, sulphur-yellow in cellules la, lb, 1 c and 2 and often also in the cell, 
but in the other cellules diaphanous. On the under surface all the black parts of the upperside are bright light 
yellow; the black streaks on the interneural folds are proximally thickened, distally pointed, and often do not 
quite reach the distal margin; cell with 2 or 3, cellule 7 with 1 or 2 black dots; cellules 2—6 without 
discal dots. Congo to Uganda. 
A. servona. Median band on the upperside of the hindwing distally more or less rounded, nearly al¬ 
ways lemon-yellow to sulphur-yellow; the streaks on the folds of the hindwing beneath are of uniform breadth 
and reach the distal margin; base of the hindwing above darkened at most to vein 2; forewing with transpa¬ 
rent spots in cellules 1 b—6 and the apex of the cell, the spots in cellules 1 b and 3 are sometimes indistinct 
or entirely absent; beneath the black parts of the upperside are light yellow to red-brown. — servona Goclt. servona. 
(= lycoides Bclv.) (57 b). Spots in cellules 1 b and 3 of the forewing distinct; the dark basal area on the upper- 
side of the hindwing reaches vein 2; under surface with the ground-colour yellow; median band of the hind¬ 
wing sulphur-yellow. Cameroons to Angola. — - orientis Auriv. (57 c). Ground-colour of the upper surface orientis. 
deeper black, of the under grey-yellow; the spots in 1 b and 3 of the forewing are absent or indistinct and 
small, the others with distinct white scaling; dark basal area of the hindwing above small, not reaching vein 
2. Hindwing beneath with two black dots in the cell and two in cellule 7. German East Afiica. Strand has 
named the following trifling aberrations of this race: ab. depunctella Strand. Hindwing without black dots in depunciella. 
the cell and with 1 or 2 in cellule 7. German East Africa, ab. unipunctella Strand. One dot in the cell unipunc- 
and 2 in cellule 7 of the hindwing. German East Africa, ab. semipunctella Strand. One dot in the cell and one tAla. 
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in celhde 7 of the hindwing. German East Africa, ab. transienda Strand only differs from semipunctella in having punetella. 
the light spots in cellules 1 b and 3 of the forewing more distinct. German East Africa. -— rhodina Rothsch. transienda. 
(= subochreata Griinb.) (60 d) has the ground-colour of the under surface red-brown, but otherwise agrees with rh °Bna. 
the type-form. Uganda and Abyssinia. — $-ab. rubra Eltr. (60 d) differs from all the other forms of this rubra. 
species in having the median band on the upperside of the hindwing narrower and red; the marginal band 
of the hindwing as broad as the median band or somewhat broader; fore wing spotted as in orientis. Gaboon 
and Angola. —- limonata Eltr. Only <$$ known; they differ from the type-form in having the light spots in limonata. 
cellules 1 b and 2 on the upperside of the forewing scaled with lemon-yellow instead of transparent. Fer¬ 
nando Po. — tenebrosa Eltr. Under surface as in rhodina, only somewhat darker; forewing as in orientis ; the tenebrosa. 
median band of the hindwing reaches neither the costal nor the inner margin. German East Africa. — f. ? re- reversa. 
versa Eltr. has the tarsal claws of the of unequal size, whilst in all the other forms they are equal in size; 
otherwise said to agree with the type-form. Congo. 
A. circeis Drury is very similar to the type-form of the preceding species, merely differing in having circeis. 
the forewing black-scaled only at the margins and on the veins, otherwise almost transparent, while the 
light yellow median band of the hindwing is of uniform breadth with the distal boundary almost straight. 
Sierra Leone to North Angola. 
A. melanoxantha E. Sharpe. Both wings above black, thickly scaled; the forewing with two yellow^ melano- 
spots in the middle (in 2 and the apex of the cell) and 3 semi-transparent whitish subapical spots in 4—6; xaniha - 
hindwing above with narrow lemon-yellow median band, w hich is only 3 mm. in breadth in the middle and 
becomes gradually narrower towards the inner margin. Beneath the hindwing and the apex of the forewing 
are light yellow with black veins and streaks at the distal margin; the latter are finely pointed distally 
and scarcely reach the margin; cell of the hindwing only with one black dot. Elgon Mountain. 
A. mairessei Auriv. Wings above fully scaled, black with 6 semitransparent white spots on the fore- mairessei. 
wing (in 1 b, 2, 4—6 and in the apex of the cell) and a sulphur-yellow median band on the hindwing, formed 
as in melanoxantha. Beneath the ground-colour of the hindwing and 8 or 9 elongate marginal spots on the 
