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1. Hindwing beneath with two broad, black bands, one extending from the middle of the black 
proximal margin to the middle of the costal margin and the other one transversely from the 
apex of the cell to the black submarginal band and entirely covering area 6. The white ground¬ 
colour is thereby divided into two larger spots and a smaller one. L. campimus. 
2. The white ground-colour of the hindwing beneath is not divided into separate spots. 
a) Hindwing beneath at the apex of the discal cell with a large, black, very irregular spot 
reaching the costal margin, but neither the proximal nor distal margins. 
L. melcmdeta. 
b) Hindwing beneath at the apex of the discal cell with a large, rounded, jet-black, quite 
separate spot. ' L. lybia. 
B. The black marginal band of the forewing above grows narrower posteriorly and only reaches vein 2; 
on the hindwing above it is only represented by a very fine marginal line. Hindwing beneath white 
without a discal spot and with an unspotted, black marginal band of 3 mm width. 
L. simplicia. 
II. The black apex of the forewing as well as the costal margin and the border on both sides without light mar¬ 
kings. Hindwing beneath at the proximal margin not black, on both sides with a black marginal band. 
a. Hindwing only beneath with a black discal dot. Marginal band of the forewing posteriorly tapering, 
ending pointedly at vein 2 or 1. L. submacula. 
(3. Marginal band of the forewing as far as the anal margin 3 to 4 mm broad and continued on the hindwing 
in the same width. 
*. Forewing on the transverse vein with a distinct, black spot united with the costal margin. 
L. confusa. 
**. Forewing without a distinct spot on the transverse vein of the discal cell. L. opaca. 
L. libyssa Hew. (= margarita Suff.) (63 g). Wings above white with a joint, unspotted, black mar- libyssa 
ginal band and a black costal margin of the forewing. Forewing beneath white, the costal margin broadly black 
as far as the cell-apex, and with a black marginal band spotted yellow, of 7 mm width at the costal margin, 
but rapidly growing narrower posteriorly and ending pointedly at vein 2 or in lb. Hindwing beneath yellow, 
the proximal margin black as far as vein 1 c, with a black marginal band usually interrupted in area 5 and 
enclosing two white spots in 3 and 5 to 6, and with 4 black spots, two of which are near the black proximal 
margin (the first smaller one in 1 c near the base, the other larger one in 1 c and 2), whilst two are situate 
at the costal margin (the first being small and round in 7, the other being much larger and extending from 
the middle of the costal margin to the cell-apex and vein 5). Old Calabar to Angola. — orientalis Baker (= con- orientalis. 
fluens Griinb.) (63 f) ist the eastern form and deviates by the hinclwing beneath showing at the end of the discal 
cell a black transverse streak connecting the large costal-marginal spot with the two inner-marginal spots; 
the costal-marginal spot is besides also connected with the marginal band in area 6; the black basal dot in area 
7, however, is absent; the yellowish ground-colour is hereby divided into completely separate spots. Uganda. 
L. hollandi Auriv. (63 g) resembles the form orientalis of the preceding species, but it deviates by hollandi. 
the basal spot of the hindwing beneath in area 7 being large and united with the costal-marginal spot and sending 
a black transverse streak across the middle of the cell to the proximal margin; the ground-colour is almost 
white, and the marginal band has 4 or 5 white marginal spots. Congo District. 
L. campimus Holl. (63 g). Wings above as in the preceding species; on the forewing beneath the campimus. 
black costal-marginal band without any border passes over into the marginal band which only encloses a white 
transverse streak at the apex. Hindwing beneath silvery white with a straight, black transverse band from 
the costal margin to the proximal margin right across the discal cell, and with a curved, black submarginal band, 
which are connected by a black longitudinal streak of area 6; the white ground-colour hereby forms three large 
areas, a marginal band and a longitudinal spot at the proximal margin. Cameroon to the Ogowe River. 
L. melandeta Holl. Above white with broad, black margins as in the other species; forewing beneath melandeta. 
as in campimus ; hindwing beneath with a black proximal margin and submarginal band as in campimus, but 
otherwise only with an irregular, black costal-marginal spot reaching the cell-apex and sending a branch right 
across the middle of the cell. Ogowe River. 
L. lybia Stgr. (63 g as libya) very much approximates melandeta, differing only by the hindwing lybia. 
beneath at the apex of the discal cell showing a rounded, separate, black spot not reaching the costal margin. 
Gabun. 
L. nubifera Ham. Druce (63 g). Forewing above with a broad, black apex and margin; costal margin nubifera. 
also as far as the cell blackish-brown; at the apex of the cell a black transverse spot being connected with the 
