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STUGETA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
bowkeri. 
subinfusca- 
ta. 
rnombasae. 
maria. 
marmorea. 
mimetica. 
B. The dark, slanting discal band of the forewing is straight and almost eqrially broad from the costal 
margin to vein 3, but in the areas 2 and 1 b it is continued merely as a narrow transverse streak, being 
much nearer to the base. Both wings above at least in the $ far beyond the middle white with or without 
a blue reflection.! S. marmorea. 
II. Wings above without any white markings at all. S. mimetica. 
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S. bowkeri. Forewing above as far as beyond the middle light blue with white longitudinal spots at 
the base of the areas 4 and 5 and white postdiscal spots in 2 to 6, of which those in 3 and 4 are small or 
absent; behind these spots and the blue colour in 1 a and 1 b follows a black, almost equally broad mar¬ 
ginal band of about 3 mm width, the white postdiscal spots are separated from the blue colour by the black 
discal band. Hindwing above as far as the margin light blue with a large, black spot at the apex, a black 
discal band from the costal margin to the third black, small submarginal luna and black marginal spots; 
between these black markings there generally appear white postdiscal and submarginal spots; a fine, black 
marginal line proximally bordered with white. Wings beneath of a white ground-colour, and the transverse 
markings mentioned above are varying from brown to blackish. — In the typical form bowkeri Trim. (67 c) 
on the under surface the space between the submarginal line and the margin is not or scarcely darkened, and 
the discal band of the forewing does not reach the sub marginal line. Angola to Cape Colony and British East 
Africa. —■ ab. subinfuscata Griinb. (nyanzana Wichgr.) (67 c) only deviates by both wings exhibiting beneath 
a broad, dark grey marginal band proximally bordered by the submarginal line, the discal band of the forewing 
reaching the submarginal line in the areas 3 and 4, and the basal part of the hindwing being more or less 
completely filled up with dark grey between the transverse lines. Damara to Victoria-Nyanza, among the 
typical forms. —• mombasae Btlr. is described as follows: ,,Larger and bluer than specimens from Natal, the 
black colour of the forewing besides more expanded, the white spots thereby smaller. Beneath the ground¬ 
colour is white, almost without any grey admixture, and the dark markings more red-brown or orange-red.“ 
British East Africa and Mombasa. 
S. maria Suff. is very closely allied to the preceding species and only differs by the marks stated 
in the review. Angola to Nyassaland.- 
S. marmorea Btlr. (68 c) is known to me only in the female. Both wings above white, at the base 
not or scarcely blue; forewing with a blackisli-grey, equally broad marginal band of about 3 mm width, and a 
slanting, black discal band ending transversely at vein 3; moreover, the dark markings beneath show a little 
through; hindwing above with a blackish-grey apical spot, a submarginal line formed of bows, and close in 
front of the margin in 3 to 5 with a thicker, coherent transverse line; black marginal spots in 1 b to 2, those 
in 1 b and 1 c being scaled silvery blue. Under surface white with fine transverse lines; only the transverse 
line of the forewdng beyond the middle of the cell and the discal band of the forewing in 3 to 8 are thick and 
blackish; on the hindwing a conical, blackish submarginal spot in 6; marginal spot of area 1 c on the hind¬ 
wing represented by a grey nebulous spot with metallic scales. In the northern part of the Ethiopian region 
from Ashanti to Adamaua and the White Nile. 
S. mimetica Auriv. Above in both sexes strikingly resembling Iolaus nursei (69 b, c); in the structure 
of the veins and the other markings, however, agreeing with Stugeta, and beneath with a marking similar to 
that of the other species of Stugeta. Distinguished from all the other species of the genus Stugeta known by 
the absence of all the white markings above. <$. Wings above of a beautiful sky-blue; forewing at the base 
of the costal margin bluish-grey, at the apex very broad (about 9 mm) black, and beginning from vein 3 with 
a black marginal band of about 3 mm width; hindwing at the costal margin only as far as vein 7 black and 
at the apex in the areas 5 and 6 with a black apical spot of 4 mm width, then with a fine black marginal 
line proximally bordered with a bluish, white line; black submarginal streaks or clots in 1 c to 5; anal lobe white 
with a black clot bordered by some lustrous metallic scales; fringes white, on the forewing in some places darkened 
and between the anal angle and vein 2 with broad black apices. The areas 1 a and 1 b scaled whitish. The 
$ above almost entirely like the <$, only distinguished by somewhat lighter blue and less deeply black colouring. 
Both sexes beneath with a violettish-grey ground-colour and the same dark reddish brown markings. The 
ground-colour is in the $ little, in the $ rather densely strewn with reddish-brown scales and appears therefore 
in the $ much darker than in the <£. The marking consists on the forewing of a transverse line in the basal part, 
being angularly broken at the median and approaching the cell-end, a transverse streak at the cell-end, 
a very broad, coherent and almost straight discal transverse band, and an almost straight submarginal line; 
these are often connected with each other by a brown nebulous spot of the areas 3 to 5; between the submarginal 
line and the fine brown marginal line dark streaks are more or less distinctly prominent. The hindwing has 
the very same markings; the transverse lines, however, are finer, in the areas 1 b and 1 c angularly broken, 
and the discal band is thickened only between the veins 2 and 7; the submarginal line, however, forms a large, 
deep black spot in the area 6, and a smaller similar spot in 7; a black marginal spot bordered by metallic lustrous 
