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H. kadiskos Havb. Drc. is unknown to me. The description says: ,,Upper surface dull brownish- kadiskos. 
violet; hindwing near the anal angle with three indistinct black marginal dots being towards the base bordered 
with white; proximal margin brownish with small white hairs. Under surface brownish-white, with a brown 
discal band and the other markings as in hatita, but besides with a brown transverse streak at the cell-end of 
the forewing and a small brown spot at the costal margin of the hindwing near the base; fringes white; the 
small tails much shorter than in hatita. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish; legs and antennae white with 
black rings. This species resembling H. buxtoni (67 b) above seems beneath to form the intermediary between 
hatita and philippus. < ' i Lagos. This discription does not state the difference of kadiskos from philippus. 
H. pachalica Btlr. (67 b) *) is above very much like H. philippus and only different by a somewhat pachalica. 
larger reddish-yellow spot in the area 2 within the black marginal spot. On the under surface it is distinguished 
by the thick bright yellowish-red discal bands and transverse streaks at the apices of the discal cells; they are 
bordered with white, and the space between the discal band and the submarginal line of the hindwing is often 
more or less covered with white; otherwise the under surface is also very much like that of philippus. German 
and British East Africa as far as Waclelai in the equatorial province. — aureolineata B.-Bak. is unknown to aureolinea- 
me, but according to the description it agrees so exactly with pachalica that, it is probably only a form of it. ia ' 
Bethttne-Baker describes his species as follows: ,,Antennae brown, curled white. Both wings brown with a 
purple mauve lustre, which colour is much lighter on being seen from the side; margin narrow black; hindwing 
with three black anal spots; the first and second proximally finely bordered with white, the third proximally 
with an orange spot. Both wings beneath bright stone-coloured grey with bright golden orange spots and 
transverse bands being finely bordered with black and white. Forewing at the cell-end with an orange spot, 
the black bordering of which is hardly noticeable; discal band broad, upright, gradually somewhat thickened 
from the costal margin to vein 2, then quickly tapering off and somewhat darketred; submarginal line much 
thinner; the space between these lines whitish; margin narrow orange-vellow. Hindwing with a subbasal spot 
and a transverse streak at the cell-end; discal band broad, angularly broken before vein 1 b and ending at the 
proximal margin; the submarginal line narrower, but like the discal band broken at vein 1 b; the space between 
these two lines whitish; a dark nebulous band between the submarginal line and the margin, the latter orange; 
the anal spot black with metallic scales and proximally accompanied by a light orange spot **); a black dot 
proximally bordered with orange is in area 2; two small, fine tails.“ Uganda: Toro. 
H. buxtoni Hew. (67 b) is closely allied with philippus , but at once discernible by the purely white buxtoni. 
ground-colour beneath and the finer yellow transverse lines beneath. Besides both wings in the above are 
of a bright violettish-blue, and in the $ the forewing exhibits above a broad, somewhat irregular, white discal 
band which, however, does not reach the costal margin, whilst the hindwing is white in the marginal half with 
three blackish transverse lines. Cape Colony to the Nyassa District. 
H. vittigera Mob. is a very rare species of Madagascar, of which only one specimen is known hitherto, rittigera. 
Wings above dark brown, in the middle with a slight greyish hue; hindwing at the margin rather broadly bluish- 
grey with dark marginal dots, of which those in 1 b, 1 c and 2 are somewhat larger and black; the dot in 2 is 
proximally broadly bordered with orange-red. Both wings beneath of a white ground-colour; forewing beneath 
with an indistinct transverse streak at the end of the discal cell, a very indistinct, nebulous discal band, an 
undulate submarginal line and a fine, according to the description blue, according to the figure reddish marginal 
line; hindwing beneath with a red basal dot in 7 and with a discal band of 2 to 3 mm width being red in the 
area 7 and then yellow; the submarginal line is absent and the marginal line very fine; marginal dots very 
small and only developed in 1 b, 1 c and 2, those in 1 b and 1 c surrounded by a bluish grey and that in 2 proxi¬ 
mally bordered by a light yellow. 
H. jacksoni B.-Bak. (68 c) is only known in the male and differs from all the other species by the iacksoni. 
colouring. Wings above dull orange-red in a certain light with a faint purple reflection; forewing with a very 
broad marginal band; hindwing with a rather broad dark marginal band quickly tapering off towards the anal 
angle; anal angle bluish white, anal lobe margined with yellow; first small tail long, the second small tail shorter. 
Both wings beneath as far as the margin purely white; forewing with a slanting, orange-red transverse streak 
from the costal margin to the base of vein 2 and a postmedian, slanting, undulate, orange-red transverse band 
ending at vein 1; a fine, slightly bent, dark submarginal line. Hindwing with an orange-red, short basal spot 
in area 7, a slanting, orange-red transverse streak as far as vein 2 behind which it is continued as a black line, 
and a fine, feebly dentate discal line turning posteriorly towards the proximal margin; a black dot proxi¬ 
mally bordered with yellow in 2, the spot in 1 b black narroAvly bordered with yellow, and a light, metallic 
blue spot nearer to the margin; marginal line finely black. Uganda: Toro. 
*) Figure 67 a does not represent a typical 'pachalica. 
**) This spot is little distinct or absent in specimens of pachalica lying before me. 
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