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b. Hindwing scaled in the basal part and with distinct basal and discal dots. 
1. Forewing at the base as far as vein 2 and hindwing at least to the apex of the cell scaled with 
whitish yellow (<J) or red-yellow. Forewing with a dot in the cell and with 1 or 2 dots in 1 b, 
hindwing with submarginal dots in 1 c and 2. A. kraka. 
2. Fore wing to the base somewhat smoky, transparent, without markings or merely with a trans¬ 
verse spot at the end of the cell. Hindwing to beyond the middle whitish or whitish yellow, oc¬ 
casionally yellow-brown, without submarginal dots. A. eugenia. 
II. Cell of the hindwing without black dots or only black in the extreme basal angle. Hindwing beyond the middle 
in 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 with a curved row of 5 large deep black spots. 
A. Hindwing in cellule 7 with a large black spot directly before the spot in 6, but without other 
spots in 7. Basal area of the wings in the ochre-yellow to brown-yellow, in the $ whitish. 
A. igati. 
B. Hind wing in cellule 7 with a large black spot, which is placed much nearer to the base than the spot 
in 6 and occasionally also with a small spot directly before the spot in 6. Basal area of the wings 
in the S brick- to rose-red, in the $ white, reddish or brownish. A. dammii. 
A. kakana Eltr. (60 e) is unknown to me, but is given by Eltringham first as a variety (race) of iturina kakana. 
and then as a probably independent species. From the figure and description the latter view seems to me 
to be the correct one. Fore wing narrowly black at the base and the costal margin, semitransparent blackish 
in the apical half; the rest of the wing as far as the apex of the cell orange-red without dots or spots. Hind¬ 
wing above orange-red with blackish marginal band about 2 mm. in breadth, towards the anal angle gradually 
narrowing to a point, almost confluent basal dots and large discal dots, broadly separated from the basal 
and united into a nearly straight median transverse band, the dots in cellules 2 to 4 triangular and occu¬ 
pying the entire base of their cellules; the spot in 3 is thus placed much nearer to the distal margin than the 
others, which almost touch one another at the apex of the cell. Under surface like the upper, but much paler, 
particularly on the hindwing. Abyssinia. 
A. iturina Smith. Forewing hyaline, darkened at the costal and distal margins, red to red-yellow iturina. 
at the base as far as vein 3; this colour does not reach the apex of the cell and encloses a dark spot in the cell 
and occasionally also a discal dot in 2. Hindwing red-yellow with grey marginal band 2 to 3 mm. in breadth 
and free basal and discal dots, arranged almost as in kakana. Cameroons, Congo and Uganda. This species 
differs from the following in having veins 6 and 7 of the hindwing stalked. 
A. cerita E. Sharpe (60 e). Of this species only one specimen is known; it is very closely allied to cerita. 
cerasa and it need only be added to what has been given in the synopsis that the discal dots of the hindwing 
are small and in cellules 4 to 6 entirely absent. Uganda. 
A. cerasa Hew. (53 b). The red-yellow scaling of the forewing reaches the apex of the cell, is there cerasa. 
bounded by a transverse streak and encloses a black dot in the cell and usually also, especially in the $, 
discal dots, at least in 1 b and 2. Hindwing red-yellow above with transparent marginal band, much nar¬ 
rowed in cellules lc and 2, fully developed discal dots and, especially in the usually also with submarginal 
dots at least in 1 c and 2. In the $ the red-yellow colour is lighter red to light yellow. — Larva above red¬ 
dish with greenish dorsal line and white dots on the dorsal line and at the lateral edge of the red colour, on the 
sides olive-green, beneath light green; head black; dorsal spines dark grey; on segments 3 to 6 longer, other 
spines yellowish to greenish white. Pupa light orange-yellow with black dots and lines. Natal to British East 
Africa. 
A. ursimaculata Smith differs from all the other species in having the black dots entirely absent on both unimacu- 
wings except for 1 or 2 in the cell of the hindwing beneath. The forewing to vein 2 or 3, the hindving kifa. 
to the marginal band, scaled with orange-yellow; apex of the cell of the forewing hyaline. British East Africa. 
A. quirina F. (53b). Forewing diaphanous without markings, only in la and at the base of lb quirina. 
scaled with red-yellow or red. Hindwing rose-red to orange-yellow with free basal and discal dots and at the 
edge of the red-yellow colour often with submarginal dots in all the cellules; marginal band broad and diapha¬ 
nous. In the $ the red-yellow colour is usually replaced by dirty yellow-grey. Sierra Leone to British East 
Africa. — rosa Eltr. only differs in having the basal part of the forewing above scaled with red or red-yellow rosa. 
to the apex of the cell and almost to the anal angle. British East Africa. 
A. eugenia Karsch (53 b). Forewing diaphanous or somewhat smoky and entirely without markings, eugenia. 
Hindwing above whitish or slightly yellowish to the discal dots, with basal and discal dots but without sub¬ 
marginal ones; marginal band somewirat smoky and at least 6 mm. in breadth. Togoland and Angola. — 
ochreata Griinb. Wings darker and more densely scaled; forewing with distinct transverse spot at the apex ochreata. 
of the cell; hindwing from the base to beyond the middle scaled with yellow-brown on both surfaces. Spanish 
Guinea. 
A. kraka Auriv. (53 b). Forewing to vein 2 and hindving to the discal dots whitish yellow 7 (J) or kraka. 
