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2. Forewing with submarginal dots in 1 b and 2. A. rohlfsi. 
(cf. p. 277.) 
II. Forewing entirely without free black dots. Hindwing beneath at the distal margin with broad red-brown 
band. 
a) Hindwing above with large red-yellow, black-bordered marginal spots. The discal dots of the hindwing 
are all placed nearer to the base than to the apex of the cell. A. cimicitiae. 
(cf. p. 259.) 
b) Hindwing above with narrow black, unspotted marginal band and at the base black to te apex of 
the cell. Fore wing red-yellow without spots to the apex of the cell, then semitransparent smoky black 
with ill-defined whitish subapical spots in 4 to 6. A. baxteri. 
A. asboloplintha Karsch (54 a). Forewing above unicolorous dark smoky black with indistinct discal asboloplin- 
dots and occasionally at the liindmargin in the middle of 1 a with red-yellow scaling, beneath light yellowish i,ia ‘ 
brown with distinct discal dots, black fringes and very fine marginal line. Hindwing above light orange-yellow, 
at the base black as far as vein 2 and with free black discal dots and black fringes, beneath at the base and 
inner margin red, then light yellowish and beyond the discal dots with light orange-yellow transverse band 4 mm. 
in breadth, which does not reach the distal margin, so that a light yellowish transverse band is formed. In the $ 
the hindwing above is often yellow-brown instead of orange-yellow. Ruwenzori, Uganda and British East 
Africa. — rubescens Eltr. differs in having the hindwing above rose-coloured, while the forewing has a hind- rubescens. 
marginal spot of the same colour, which covers the base of cellule 2 and also a part of the cell. In the $ the 
corresponding parts are white. British East Africa. This very distinct species possibly belongs best to the se¬ 
cond subgroup. 
A. baxteri E. Sharpe (54 a). Forewing entirely without black dots, in the basal part yellow-red to red- baxteri. 
dish as far as the apex of the cell and the middle of cellule 2, in the apical part blackish with three whitish, 
semitransparent spots in 4 to 6. The discal dots of the hindwing are all present, almost touch one another 
and stand in a curved row, which runs close to the apex of the cell; hindwing above black as far as the discal 
dots. Distal half yellow-red with narrow, unspotted, black marginal band; beneath in the basal part as far as 
the discal dots coffee-brown with distinct black dots, then reddish white and at the distal margin with rust- 
brown marginal band 3 mm. in breadth and black fringes. Eltringham refers baxteri to the first group, which 
is characterized by black streaks on the interneural folds of the hindwing beneath; these streaks are, however, 
entirely absent both in the figure of the typical example and in the specimens before me. In colour and mark¬ 
ings baxteri comes so extremely close to A. insignis in the following subgroup that I can only regard the two 
species as nearly allied. Only the fact that the black marginal band of the hindwing beneath is entirely absent 
in baxteri, but in insignis distinct though narrow, has led me to include baxteri here and not in the seventh 
subgroup. Nyassaland, German and British East Africa. — ab. fuelletoorni Thur. has the light subapical fuellebomi. 
spots of the fore wing larger and the marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing about 2 mm. in breadth. 
Nyassaland. In ab. subsquamia Thur. the wings are more densely scaled and the red colour on the upperside subsquamia. 
of the hindwing extends nearly to the base of cellules 4 to 6. Usambara. 
Seventh S u b g r o u p. 
Forewing in the apical part hyaline or at least with hyaline subapical area; occasionally the whole wing hyaline or in 
the basal part hyaline and dista-lly thinly scaled or entirely smoke-brown without any markings except a median spot. Hind¬ 
wing with black spots at the extremities of the veins or with dark marginal band. It may easily happen that some species 
which evidently belong to other subgroups may be looked for here; these are therefore included in the synopsis. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
I. Hindwing above with continuous, unicolorous or light-spotted dark marginal band. 
A. Abdomen long, much longer than the hindwing, the posterior half white. A. braesia. 
(cf. p. 271.) 
B. Abdomen not or but little longer than the hindwing, the posterior half not white, 
a. Hindwing without black submarginal dots. 
*. Forewing in the bas-al part hyaline. Hindwing above unicolorous black or with an elongate 
blood-red area. A. cinerea. 
(cf. p. 256.) 
**. Forewing in the basal half or at least close to the base clothed with yelloAV, red or black scales. 
