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**. The subapical band on the upperside of the forewing white and composed in the <$ of 3, in the 
$ of 4 spots. The cell of the forewing above in the $ entirely red-yellow. Marginal band 
on the upperside of the hindwing nearly always with 3 or 4 white spots just before the distal 
margin. The fourth transverse streak at the costal margin of the hindwing beneath irregular. 
T. acraeoides. 
B. Hindwing beneath at the costal margin with only one streak proximally to the median transverse 
streak; the streaks usually separated by white transverse spots. Cell of the forewing above entirely 
or almost entirely red-yellow. The red-yellow hindmarginal spot of the forewing reaches the base of 
cellules 1 a and 1 b. 
a. Forewing above without subapical band. Marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing without 
white spots. The first streak at the costal margin of the hindwing beneath broadly separated from 
the median transverse streak. T. rufilla. 
b. Forewing above with white subapical band. The first streak at the costal margin of the hindwing 
beneath is placed near the median transverse streak. 
*. Marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing without white spots. The first costal streak 
on the underside of the hindwing long and narrow, very obliquely placed. The cell with black 
longitudinal streak at the base. T. transverstigma. 
**. Marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing with white spots. The first costal transverse 
streak on the underside of the hindwing short. The hindwing beneath without black longitu¬ 
dinal streak in the cell. 
1. The orange-red basal area of the forewing above almost reaches the white subapical band. 
a) Forewing above with distinct white marginal spots at least in 1 b—4. 
T. erica. 
b) Forewing above without white marginal spots. T. nyanza. 
2. The orange-red basal area of the forewing above broadly separated from the white subapical 
band. T. sanguinea. 
II. Fringes unicolorous without light spots. Wings beneath dark without white markings. 
a. Basal part of the forewing on both surfaces dull orange-yellow to the costal margin. Hindwing beneath 
with greyish ground-colour and some black basal dots. T. actinotina. 
b. Basal part of the forewing at least at the costal margin broadly black. Hindwing beneath with dark 
yellow ground-colour. T. carnuta. 
T. rogersi. 
T. rothi Sm. Forewing above black with a complete red-yellow median transverse band, angled rothi. 
at vein 4, at the costal margin about 2 mm. in breadth and at the hindmargin 9 mm., leaving the cell and the 
base of cellules 1 a and 1 b free. Hindwing above red-yellow with black, unspotted median band of an almost 
uniform breadth of about 3 mm. Both wings beneath light orange-yellow with black and white markings at 
the costal and distal margins as in the allied forms. Nigeria, near Warri. 
T. acraea Dbl. & Hew. (61 c) approximates to the preceding species, only differing in having the acraea. 
red-yellow transverse band on the forewing above narrower and lighter at the costal margin, much broader 
(about 15 mm.) at the hindmargin and reaching the base. The black marginal band of the hindwing is 
about 4 mm. in breadth. Gold Coast to the Cameroons. $-ab. nigra Huff, is distinguished by having the black nigra. 
marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing very broad and reaching the apex of the cell. 
T. bimaculata. Forewing above black with a large red hindmarginal spot, which covers the base of 
cellules 1 a and 1 b, the posterior longitudinal half of the cell, more than half of cellule 2 and the base of 
cellule 3, and usually also with a small subapical band. Hindwing above red with an unspotted black 
marginal band about 3.5 mm. in breadth; the fringes of both wings white-spotted. Both wings beneath orange- 
yellow with black and white streaks and spots at the costal and distal margins as in the allied species; hind¬ 
wing beneath at the costal margin with four distinct black transverse streaks, of which the third is continued 
on the transverse vein of the cell and the fourth is straight. — bimacula Plotz (61 c, d). The subapical bimacula. 
band on the upperside of the forewing is light yellow and consists in the of two spots (in 4 and 5) and in 
the $ of three (in 4—6). Cameroons. — echo Sm. & Kirby (61 d) only differs in the red subapieal band of echo. 
the forewing. Ashanti. — albofasciata Auriv. is distinguished by a white subapical band. Fernando Po. — albofasciata. 
In semirufa Sm. & Kirby (61 d) the subapical band of the forewing above is entirely absent and the hindmargi- semirufa. 
nal spot is smaller and narrower. Gold Coast to the Congo. 
T. acraeoides Sm. & Kirby (61 d) only differs from bimacula in the characters given in the synopsis, acraeoides. 
Cameroons to Angola. 
T. rufilla Sm. is similar above to semirufa (61 d) and like this lacks the subapical band on the upper- rufilla. 
side of the foreAving, but has a larger hindmarginal spot, which covers both the greater part of the cell and the 
base of cellule 3. Marginal band of the hindwing above unspotted. The under surface only differs in the charac¬ 
ters given in the synopsis. Nigeria, near Warri. 
