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PARDOPSIS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
dammii. 
cuv a. 
nidarna. 
igati. 
rabbaiae. 
mombasae. 
zonata. 
'puncta- 
tissima. 
brown-yellow ($) (not black-grey as in the figure), otherwise hyaline; forewing usually with a black dot in the 
cell and with discal dots in 1 b and 2; hindwing in addition to the basal and discal dots usually with sub¬ 
marginal dots in 1 c and 2; marginal band diaphanous, 9 to 11 mm. in breadth. Cameroons, Fernando Po and 
Congo region in the primeval forests near Mawambi. 
A. dammii Vollenh. (53 b). Forewing to the apex of the cell and hindwing not or scarcely beyond the 
black spots scaled with red (<$) or white ($); the hyaline marginal band of the hindwing is consequently broad, 
reaching the black spot in 3; the large black spot in 7 is placed much nearer to the base than the one in 6. 
Madagascar. -— cuva Smith (57 a) differs in having the red (G) or dirty yellow ($) scaling on both wings extended 
much further distad; hence the hyaline marginal band of the hindwing is only about 2 mm. in breadth; 
hindwing usually with 6 to 8 discal dots, occasionally only with 5, ab. mdama Suff. German and British 
East Africa. 
A. igati Bdv. (53 a) is very similar to the preceding species, only differing from it in the characters 
given in the synopsis. Madagascar. 
T li i r d Group. 
This group embraces only two Ethiopian species, which differ from all other Acraeids in having the basal hah of the 
hindwing entirely without markings, the basal dots being entirely absent. An approach to this oecurs in the second group in 
A. liumilis and unimaculata, where occasionally only a single basal dot is present in the cell. 
A. rabbaiae Ward (53 a). Fore wing diaphanous with a black basal dot in 1 b and with discal dots in 
(1 a) 1 b to 6, 10 and 11, which beneath are united with one another and with a spot in the apex of the cell, 
forming a black transverse band; the veins at the distal margin black and in cellules 4 to 7 bordering large 
but indistinct light yellowish marginal spots. Hindwing very thinly scaled, whitish, with black, light yellow- 
spotted marginal band 2 to 3 mm. in breadth and entirely without other markings. Delagoa Bay to British 
East Africa and Rhodesia. — mombasae Smith only differs in having the hindwing and partially also the fore¬ 
wing scaled with very light brown-yellow instead of white and the discal dots of the forewing smaller and often 
indistinct. German East Africa. 
A. zonata Hew. (53 a). Wings brown-yellow with black veins and triangular black spots at the extre¬ 
mities of the veins; forewing with black costal margin, a large black spot in the celi, a discal and a submar¬ 
ginal curved transverse band, which are united at the hindmargin near the hinder angle; these transverse 
bands are continued on the hindwing by a single band which runs somewhat behind the middle. A rare species, 
hitherto only met with in German and British East Africa. 
3. Genus : I*as*«lo§isis Trim. 
The great peculiarities of this genus were entirely overlooked by the earlier authors down to Schatz. 
To the eminent English lepidopterist R. Trimen belongs the credit of having first clearly shown the differences 
between Acraea and Pardopsis. The most important difference from Acraea consists in vein 6 of the fore wing 
being separated from the stalk of veins 7 to 10 by a long and very obliquely placed upper discocellular 
and arising from the same point as vein 5. Such a structure of the ceil occurs in no other genus among the 
Nymphalids or Acraeids, but it strongly recalls the ceil of the Lycaenid genus Pentila, some of the species of 
which, curiously enough, are also very suggestive of Pardopsis in colouring and markings. A real relationship 
of the two genera seems, however, to be scarcely conceivable and one would consequently endeavour to attri¬ 
bute the resemblance to mimicry. But why the species mimicked should be more like the mimic in the structure 
of the cell than to its nearest allies is a problem which in the present state of our knowledge cannot be ex¬ 
plained. Eltringham seems inclined to remove the genus Pardopsis from the Acraeids and erect for it a separate 
family or subfamily of the Nymphalids. So long as the early stages remain unknown it seems to me best to 
place Pardopsis among the Acraeids, with which it agrees in the fully closed cells, the position of vein 10 of 
the fore wing and the structure of the forelegs and of the abdomen. 
P. punctatissima Bdv. (53 a). Both wings ochre-yellow or brown-yellow with completely (cf. p. 246) 
developed, rounded black basal, median, discal, submarginal and marginal dots and with a black marginal 
line, which at the apex of the forewing is widened into an apical spot. Cape to Somaliland, Uganda and Abys¬ 
sinia ; Madagascar. 
