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TELIPNA. By Dr. 0. Aurivillius. 
caissa. 
johanna. 
picata. 
obertJiueri. 
A. caissa Rbl. & Rog. (63 b) only differs from reticulata in the absence of the white submarginal spots 
on the upper surface. German East Africa near the Victoria Nyanza. 
A. johanna E. Sharpe (63 a) is a small species allied to reticulata. Wings above black-grey with white 
spots; forewing with two spots in the cell and a narrow median band broken up into spots, consisting of three 
somewhat larger spots, placed in a line, in cellules lb—3 and four dots in cellules 4—6 and 9; hindwing only with 
a narrow, straight transverse band, which is placed beyond the middle, is directed towards the apex and reaches 
neither the inner margin nor the apex. Forewing beneath blackish with whitish spots almost as in reticulata. 
Under surface of the hindwing yellowish with numerous small whitish spots. British East Africa and Somaliland. 
A. picata E. Sharpe (61 c). Wings above black; forewing with a white subapical band from the costal 
margin to vein 3 and a small quadrate spot at the middle of the hindmargin; hindwing only with white 
median band, which forms a ventricose distad projection in the middle and is there about 4 mm. in breadth. 
Forewing beneath with the same white markings as above and in addition with light spots in the cell and at 
the costal and distal margins; hindwing beneath with undivided white median band, which is even broader than 
above, and in addition with white spots at the base, 3 large and one punctiform, and with very large light 
yellow marginal spots, of which those in 2 and 4 are divided. British East Africa. According to Rev. St. 
Atjbyn Rogers is in flight deceptively like a Neptis. 
A. oberthueri Auriv. (62 a). Wings above black; hindwing unicolorous without markings, forewing 
beyond the middle with a curved transverse row of small white spots from the costal margin to vein 3 or 2. 
Forewing beneath to beyond the middle black with some indistinct light spots at the costal margin, in the 
apical part with three transverse rows of light spots; hindwing beneath black, in the basal half with 6 or 7 
white spots, in the distal part with three curved transverse rows of white spots. Mpala on the west coast of 
Lake Tanganyika. 
2. Genus: Telipna Auriv. 
Telipna agrees almost entirely with Alaena in neuration and only differs in the appressed scaling of the 
palpus. — In the markings and shape of the wings, however, the Telipna species differ quite considerably 
from Alaena. The forewing is more elongate and more pointed. Both wings are black above and at the base 
more or less extended red or orange and occasionally also with light subapical spots on the forewing and white 
marginal spots on the hindwing. Most of the species are also much larger than Alaena. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
I. Both wings beneath orange-yellow to light yellow, at the costal and distal margins with sharply prominent 
black and white markings. The hindwing beneath always with broad, continuous, black, white-spotted 
marginal band, which is usually narrower in cellules 4 and 5 than in the other cellules. Fringes usually 
light-spotted. The hindwing beneath at the costal margin with 3 or 4 black transverse spots or streaks, 
one of which is prolonged posteriorly along the transverse vein of the cell; this is here called the median 
transverse streak. 
A. Hindwing beneath at the costal margin with two distinct streaks proximally to the median transverse 
streak; these traverse cellules 8 and 7 and often also form a dot in the cell. 
a. Forewing above with a continuous red or red-yellow transverse band, which extends from the 
costal to the hindmargin and is much widened posteriorly. Hindwing above with unspotted black 
marginal band. 
*. The transverse band on the uppersicle of the forewing is unicolorous yellow-red, is placed 
entirely outside the cell and does not cover the base of cellules 1 a and lb. T. rothi. 
**. The transverse band of the forewing is anteriorly much narrower and lighter-coloured, covers 
the posterior longitudinal half of the cell and reaches quite to the base of cellules 1 a and 1 b. 
T. acraea. 
b. Forewing above with a large red hindmarginal spot and a subapical band entirely separated from it. 
*. The subapical band on the upperside of the forewing composed in the <$ of 2, in the $ of 3 
spots; the cell of the forewing entirely black or only red along its posterior side. Marginal band 
on the upperside of the hindwing without white spots. The fourth transverse streak at the 
costal margin of the hindwing beneath straight. T. bimacula. 
