DEUDORIX. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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3. Genus: I>eiidorix Hew. 
The numerous Ethiopian species of the genus Deudorix can be divided into four groups chiefly according 
to the colouring and marking. 
Review of the Groups of Species. 
I. Wings beneath monotonously yellow, except at the anal angle of the hindwing without or with indistinct 
markings. — q . Hair-pencil, mealy spots or other marks are absent. — Hypomyrina Druce. 
First group. 
II. Wings beneath never coloured or marked as in the first division. — $. Hinclwing above in area 7 or in 
6 and 7 at the costal margin of the discal cell with a distinct mealy spot. 
A. Wings beneath with a greyish-green or green ground-colour, in the basal part at least as far as the apex 
of the discal cell without markings. —- <$. Forewing beneath with a hair-pencil at the posterior margin. 
—• Actis Karsch -f- Kopelates Druce. Second group. 
B. Tlie ground-colour beneath not green or greenish. 
a. Wings beneath beyond the middle white without markings, but then with a common yellow or brown, 
black-edged, or black, coherent, straight or almost straight transverse band. •— Hypokopelates Druce. 
Third group. 
(3. Whigs beneath not white, generally grey or blackish, or if white or whitish without a coherent trans¬ 
verse band of the hindwing or with distinct markings in the basal half. Fourth group. 
First Group of Species. 
All the species are comparatively small with an expanse of wings of 22 to 26 mm. Frons usually dark 
with white lateral margins and a white median line in the upper part, rarely almost quite white. Hindwing 
a,t vein 3 angled or dentate, but not tailed. Wings beneath monotonously yellow without or with indistinct 
markings; hinclwing, however, beneath at the margin in the areas 1 c and 2 with two very similar, black moon- 
spots strewn with blue scales. Forewing above black with an orange-yellow spot on the posterior margin. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Hindwing above orange, at the base only narrowly black, at the proxim d margin as far as vein 1 b 
blackish and with a very fine, black marginal line between the anal angle and vein 6. 
a. The orange spot of the posterior margin of the forewing is very large and reaches at least to vein 4. 
D. nomenia. 
[3. The orange spot of the posterior margin of the forewing reaches to vein 2 at most. D. nomion. 
B. Hindwing above at the base amost to the end of the discal cell black, then orange as in division A. The 
spot of the posterior margin of the forewing large, reaching at least to vein 4. D. acares. 
D. nomenia Hew. (65 i) is fully described above in the review. Sierra Leone to Congo. 
D. nomion Stgr. (65 i) only deviates from nomenia by the marks already stated and may be merely a 
form of it. Sierra Leone. 
D. acares Karsch is also very much like the two preceding species and only discernible from nomenia 
by the larger extent of the black colour at the base of the upper surface. Togo and Nigeria. -— Perhaps the C 
of nomenia ? 
Second Group of Species. 
This group corresponds to the „genera“ Kopelates Druce and Actis Karsch, which cannot be distinguished 
from each other; for the statement by Karsci-i, that the forewings of the Ao hr Actis are without a pencil on 
the under surface of the costal margin, is not correct. Frons black with fine white lateral margins and generally 
also with a white dot or a small streak above in the middle. Hindwing at the end of vein 3 angled without 
a tail. 
nomenia . 
nomion . 
acares . 
