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orange-red postmedian spot at the anal angle; fringes brown speckled with white. Under surface: forewing 
in the two first thirds brownish-grey, in the last third orange-red, at the apex and margin yellowish and 
towards the anal angle ochreous-yellow; costal margin grey, speckled dark; a broad, dark, oblique transverse 
band behind the cell in the red area and a curved, dark transverse line before the apex; a black marginal line. 
Hindwings light grey, almost entirely suffused with red, only behind the cell, at the costal margin and border 
grey; a black dot behind the middle of the costal margin and a black basal dot in 1 c, a large, black, light- 
curled spot before and behind the cell and at its apex; an irregular, red, postmedian transverse band finely 
bordered with black; the grey marginal band speckled black. Expanse of wings: 34 mm.“ Sierra Leone. 
Ps. catharina Btlr. (62 f as eleaza). Wings above black with white-spotted fringes; the forewing caiharina. 
with a large, orange-red spot not covering the base of the areas 2 and 3, but also forming a smaller spot in 1 b 
and 4; this spot is about 5 mm broad in 2 and distally rounded off; near the cell-apex a red transverse 
streak. Forewing beneath brown mixed with a silvery grey, the basal half with three thick, black transverse 
bands (two in the cell and one at its apex), of which the second and third are separated in the cell by a red 
spot; behind the cell-apex a broad, almost triangular, orange-red spot almost reaching the posterior angle 
and suffused with brown towards the posterior margin; outside of this spot a broad, dentate, black subapical 
band distally bordered with red; marginal part grey with a black submarginal line extended spot-like in 5 
and 6, and a black marginal line. Hindwing beneath silvery grey, in the basal half speckled reddish; a 
spot at the base, one at the cell-apex and one at the costal margin red; three smaller spots at the base and 
three larger ones in the middle black bordered by whitish; behind the middle an irregular transverse row 
of 7 or 8 black spots or transverse streaks, distally bordered with red; a submarginal row of black transverse 
streaks. $ unknown. Near Whydah on the Slave Coast. 
Ps. eleaza Hew. is also only known in the male and is obviously very closely allied to the preceding eleaza. 
from which it chiefly differs only by the red spot on the forewing above appearing only as a red transverse 
streak 1 to 1 % mm broad of the areas 1 b to 3, and by the ground-colour of the fore wing beneath being darker, 
blackish. Old Calabar. 
Ps. variegata Smith (62 f). Of this species only the $ is known. In my opinion, however, variegata variegala. 
is probably the $ of catharina or eleaza. Wings above black with yellow markings; forewing with a yellow spot 
of the posterior margin situate near the posterior angle, 6 mm broad at the posterior margin, reaching the base 
of vein 2 in 1 b and ending pointedly in front in the area 4, the discal cell with two small, yellow transverse 
spots and near the margin 4 yellow submarginal spots in 3 to 6, of which those in 5 and 6 are more 
remote from the margin. Hindwing above yellow at the base, at the costal margin and proximal margin, and at 
the border broadly blackish with small, yellowish submarginal spots in 2 to 5. Forewing beneath with a 
large, triangular, light yellow spot of the posterior margin, reaching the posterior angle and the footstalk of 
7 to 9, with red submarginal dots in 2 and 3, and a yellow subapical band in 4 to 6, which are separated 
from the spot of the posterior margin by a broad, oblique, black transverse band, in the basal part three 
black transverse spots separated by red. Hindwing beneath of a grey ground-colour and black and red spots 
arranged as in catharina and eleazi. Gold Coast to Sassa on the Upper Ubangi. 
Ps. debora Ky. (62 f). Only the is known. Wings above black with white-spotted fringes. Eorewing dehorn. 
unmarked, hindwing with an oblong, orange-yellow inner-marginal spot reaching vein 3, but neither the base 
nor the margin. Both wings beneath monotonously dark blackish-grey; forewing only with a red black-bordered 
subapical baud in 4 to 6; hindwing with 2 red dots at the base of the costal margin in 8, one black basal dot 
each in 1 c and 7, a red transverse band across the middle of the cell of three spots in 1 c, 7 and in the 
cell, beyond this band with one black dot each in 1 c and 7, then with a red transverse streak of spots in 7 
and the cell, with a black dot on the transverse vein of the cell and behind the middle with a red discal 
band composed of three parts, bordered with black on both sides; the first part is straight and consists of three 
spots of the areas 1 c to 3, the second is situate nearer at the margin and likewise consists of three spots (in 4 
to 6), and the third is situate much nearer at the base and consists of a single spot in 7; marginal area 
without markings. Cameroon to the Ogowe River. 
Ps. catori Baker is described as follows: ,,Both wings above black with white-spotted fringes; hind- catori. 
wing with an intensely yellow area behind the discal cell as far as the proximal margin and anal angle. Under 
surface of both wings blackish-grey; forewing with a red subapical band of 5 spots, of which the first and last 
are the smallest; hindwing with the basal area more or less spotted red and with three black spots in a triangle, 
one each in 1 c and 7, and a larger one at the cell-apex; a submarginal, very irregular, red transverse 
band bordered with black on both sides.“ Sierra Leone. -—■ It seems to me to be identical with Ps. debora. 
Ps. deborula Auriv. (62 f) is wrongly regarded as the $ of debora by Grose-Smith. It deviates from deborula . 
it only by both wings being above unicolorously black and the two first parts of the red discal band on the 
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