SPINDASIS. By Dr. C. Auriyillius. 
41 I 
Review of the Species. 
I. Ground-colour beneath at least for the greater part white, with or without a silvery lustre. 
A. Forewing beneath at the base of the costal margin in area 12 reddish-yellow or yellow, without any 
basal and subbasal spots. Transverse bands of both wings separate. Gronnd-colour beneath with an 
intense silvery lustre. 
a. Both wings above with a violettish-blue reflection; forewing with more or less developed yellow 
markings. 8. phanes. 
(3. Both wings above brown without a blue reflection; forewing without any yellow markings. 
S. waggae. 
B. Forewing beneath with basal and subbasal spots which are more or less flown together. The transverse 
bands beneath more or less, sometimes almost reticularly, flown together. 
oc. Ground-colour beneath with a silvery lustre. Forewing above with orange spots. S. namaqua. 
Pj. Ground-colour beneath white without a silvery lustre. Spots of forewing above at least partly of 
a pure white. 8. somalina. 
II. Ground-colour beneath straw-coloured or ochreous-yellow. 
A. The fourth transverse band of the forewing beneath is coherent, straight or almost straight, ending- 
separate at vein 4 or in area 3. The third transverse band of the fore wing beneath is very short and 
reaches vein 6 at most; the second, however, reaches at least vein 2, generally also vein 1. 
a. Fore wing above at the base of the costal margin blackish-grey or blackish. 
*. Forewing beneath at the base of the costal margin (in area 12) with a basal and usually also a 
subbasal dot; the latter is fused with the subbasal spot of the discal cell forming a small trans¬ 
verse band. The yellow transverse bands of the forewing above usually distinct, in the $ separate; 
in the $ the two distal ones are posteriorly united, and the first white or whitish. Marginal 
streaks of the hindwing above thick and distinct. Frons light yellow with a black median line. 
1. The second transverse band of the hindwing beneath straight as far as the costal margin. 
a. The proximal submarginal line of the forewing beneath at the costal margin distinctly 
expanded as if double. The first transverse band of the hindwing beneath from the costal 
margin to vein 2 almost straight; the submarginal lines distinct, red-brown and almost 
complete. 8. natalensis. 
b. The proximal submarginal line of the forewing beneath not expanded at the costal margin. 
The first transverse band of the hindwing beneath between the costal margin and vein 
2 distinctly bent towards the base; the proximal submarginal line sulphur-yellowish, the distal 
one incomplete. S. nyassae. 
2. The second transverse band of the hindwing beneath at the costal margin flawed or somewhat 
interrupted, the spot in 7 being situate nearer at the margin than that in 6. Submarginal 
lines of forewdng beneath plain and almost straight. First transverse band of hindwing beneath 
feebly bent. First transverse spot of forewing above also in the $ white. 8. victoriae. 
**. Forewing beneath at the base of the costal margin (in area 12) without spots. 
§. The black basal stripe in area 1 b of the forewing beneath reaches the base of vein 
2 at mo'st, or is indistinct. 
o. The transverse bands beneath filled up with a light yellow or orange, bordered 
with black. Transverse markings of forewing above normally developed, orange. 
Frons light yellow with a black median line. S. mozambica. 
oo. The transverse bands beneath ferruginous, only on the fore wing bordered with 
black. Submarginal lines also ferruginous. Frons more or less orange. 
8. apelles. 
§§. The black basal streak in area 1 b of the forewing beneath is narrow and is continued 
as far as beyond the middle of vein 2. Transverse bands of forewing black filled up 
with silvery white, hindwing ferruginous-yellow without any black bordering. 
S. avriko. 
(3. For owing above at the base of the costal margin (in area 12) orange and with broad orange transverse 
bands. Hind wing above with a bright blue reflection. 
*. Markings beneath little darker than the ground, grey, bordered with black. 8. modesta. 
**. Markings beneath ferruginous-yellow; transverse bands bordered with brown. Both transverse 
bands of the hindwing beneath irregular as if divided into parts, in area 6 contiguous. 
S. homeyeri. 
B. The fourth transverse band of the forewing beneath irregular, extended to vein 2 or 1, but sometimes 
interrupted in area 5. Forewing beneath at the base of the costal margin with the base and subbasal 
spot in area 12. 
