DEUDORIX. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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blue; anal lobe black, proximally bordered with yellow. Nigeria and Adamaua. — obscurata Trim, is the southern obscuralu. 
race and deviates in the male by the velvety spot of the forewing above being still larger, covering a considerable 
part of the areas 2 to 5 and running distally almost parallel with the margin; the hair-pencil of the forewing 
beneath is yellowish-brown with a black apex. Ovambo District, Manica Land, Portuguese East Africa. 
D. odana Ham. Druce (68 a). <$. Wings above monotonously dark greyish-black with a faint blue odanu. 
tint particularly in the basal part of the forewing; the square mealy spot of the hindwing (at the base of vein 7) 
in a certain light with an intense copper-coloured reflection; the anal lobe of the hindwing is black with 
blue and red scales. Under surface grey, at the margin brownish, both wings with a spot at the end of the discal 
cell; forewing with a broad, coherent discal band bordered with white, being slightly darker than the ground¬ 
colour, and a narrow, indistinct submarginal band; hindwing with a very irregular discal band and a black 
submarginal spot all round encircled by red; anal lobe black, somewhat dusted with bluish. In the $ the wings 
are above yellowish dark grey, in a certain light with a faint, bluish-violet reflection and a black marginal line. 
Nigeria to Cameroon. 
D. galathea Swns. only deviates from odana by the reddish-yellow colouring at the margin of the galathea. 
hindwing above. The mealy spot of the hindwing shows a white or golden reflection. Sierra Leone. 
D. diodes Hew. (66 c). J 1 . Forewing above black with a large, orange-red spot of the posterior margin, diodes. 
reaching at least vein 4 and being 5 to 7 mm broad at the posterior margin. Hindwing above orange-red, at 
the base blackish-grey almost to the cell-apex; fringes black; anal lobe blue, scaled, black and reddish. Wings 
beneath slate-coloured, the submarginal spot in the area 2 of the hindwing only proximally bordered with red, 
otherwise entirely marked as in the two species mentioned last. -— The $ is somewhat larger and has a whitish 
bluish-grey discal spot not reaching the posterior margin, covering the middle of area 1 b and the bases of the 
areas 2 to 4; hindwing dark brown, suffused with a bluish grey, with a black submarginal spot in 2 and a black 
marginal line proximally bordered with white, in the areas 1 c to 4; under surface as in the <$. Natal to 
British East Africa. — vosseleri Strand. The deviates by the orange spot of the forewing being smaller and vosseleri. 
extending only to vein 2, and by the $ resembling above the $ of antalus (66 e), though it is without the black 
submarginal dot in the area 1 c of the hindwing. German East Africa. -— The larva of diodes lives in the pod 
of a species of Acacia and eats up the seeds; it is longish and flat, reddish-brown with yellow markings and 
black dots on the joints 1, 2, 11 and 12, the joints 3 to 10 laterally greenish. Pupa obtuse, stout and rounded 
off, brown with yellow spots on the dorsum. 
Third Subdivision. 
The species belonging hereto are at once discernible from all the other African Deudorix- species by 
the basal dots on the hindwing beneath. The sexes are usually above differently coloured and the invariably 
show a mealy spot at the base of vein 7 on the hindwing above and a black hair-pencil at the posterior margin 
of the forewing beneath. The $$ often greatly resemble each other and are as yet incompletely known; 
of several species they are not before me. I could therefore not take any account of them in the following 
review. 
Review of the Males. 
A. Hindwing above for the greatest part orange-red, or yellowish-red. 
a. Forewing above one-coloured blackish-brown with a faint, blue reflection. Basal dots on the hinclwing 
beneath red. D. dariaves. 
(3. Forewing above with a smaller or larger red area. 
*. Forewing above blackish in area 1 b, or in 1 b and 2 with a round, reddish spot not reaching the 
posterior margin. 
1. Hindwing above with a black marginal band of at least 1 mm width. Forehead black, with broad, 
white, lateral margins. Basal dots on the hindwings beneath large and jet-black. 
D. lorisona. 
2. Hindwing above as far as the margin reddish-yellow only with black fringes. Basal dots on the 
hindwing beneath small. D. dio'polis. 
**. Forewing above with a large, orange-red spot of the posterior margin, or for the greatest part orange- 
red. Hindwing beneath with 3 basal dots at most (in 1 a, 7 and in the cell). Forehead white or in 
the middle more or less orange-yellow. 
§. Forewing above at the costal margin at least as far as the discal cell black or dark grey, 
o. Basal dots and transverse lines on the hindwings beneath red. 
