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S. somalina Btlr. (69 a). Wings above in both sexes in the usual extent with a bright dark blue lustre; aomaUna. 
the spots of the forewing above in the $ of a pure white, in the at least partly white. The bands beneath 
clay-coloured with leaden dots, serpentine and connected with each other, so that the white ground-colour 
is divided into spots. Somaliland. 
S. natalensis Dbl. & Hew. (69 e). In the of the type the forewing above shows the three usual orange natalensl 
transverse spots and beneath a distinct subbasal spot in area 12. South Africa to the Damaraland, the Victoria 
Falls, the Manicaland and Querimba in Portuguese East Africa. —- ab. obscura ab. nov. deviates by the apical obscura. 
half of the forewing above being almost quite black, except traces of a reddish-yellow discal spot in area 4, 
and the subbasal spot in area 12 beneath being absent (the basal spot, however, being present). Natal. 
S. nyassae Btlr. only differs from natalensis by the marks stated in the review, and is probably only nyassae. 
a race of it. Nyassaland. 
S. victoriae Btlr. is likewise closely allied to natalensis. The differences are mentioned above in the victoriae. 
review of the species. Ovamboland, German and British East Africa. 
S. mozambica Bertol. (69 e, f) is somewhat smaller than natalensis and has a larger orange anal spot mozambica. 
on the hindwing above; the under surface is light yellow with transverse bands filled up with light yellow r or 
orange and being bordered with black on the forewing, and subtile black or ferruginous-brown on the hindwing; 
the proximal submarginal line of the hindwing beneath is bright orange and posteriorly very much expanded. 
Sierra Leone to Togo; South Africa to Ovamboland and Nyassaland. 
S. apelles Oberth. (69 f) only differs from mozambica by the marks mentioned in the review. The apelles. 
transverse bands on the forewing above are sometimes only indistinct and greyish, sometimes narrow and 
orange. German East Africa. —- nairobiensis E. Sharpe is a race or temporary form only differing by the nairobien- 
broad, sharply’- defined, yellow transverse bands of the forewing above. British East Africa, Nairobi. Belgian SiS - 
Congo, Nyassaland. 
S. avriko Karsch (69 f) is probably^ described according to a female specimen. The upper surface avriko. 
is dark brown without a blue reflection and with broad, but hued blackish and therefore indistinct yellow- trans¬ 
verse bands of the forewing, the two distal ones of which are posteriorly united; anal spot of hindwing orange 
with two black dots pnpilled silvery white. The under surface is similar to that of mozambica and only different 
by the basal dots of the h induing being larger and pupilled with reddish-yellow, and by the black line in area 
1 b of the forewdng being so much prolonged. Togo. 
S. lliodesta Trim, is unknown to me, but it seems only to differ from the following species by modesta. 
the marks stated in the review-. Ovamboland. 
S. homeyeri Dew. (69 f) is the most brightly coloured species of the genus and at once recognizable homeyeri. 
by the reddish-yellow base of the costal margin of the forewing. Transverse bands of forewing above broad, 
distinctly prominent, bright orange; the blue reflection above very bright; markings beneath almost quite 
reddish-yellow. Frons lighter or darker yellow without a black median line. Southern Congo District, Angola, 
Ovamboland, Rhodesia, Manicaland, Nyassaland, German East Africa. — kallimon Ham. Drc. only differs kallimon. 
by darker markings beneath being completely filled up with ferruginous-brown, and is certainly only a tem¬ 
poral form of homeyeri. Rhodesia, 
S. ella Hew. (69 f, g). To the detailed description in the review we only need to add that the wings ella. 
above are reflecting blue as in mosambica, but that the orange anal spot of the hindwing above is absent. Cape 
Colony to German East Africa, 
S. tavetensis Lathy (69 g) only deviates from ella by the marks mentioned in the review of the species, tavetensis. 
and is probably a race of it. British East Africa near Taveta, 
S. trimeni Neave (69 g). This species is compared by Neave with S. natalensis and victoriae and is trimeni. 
also above very similar to the latter species. But if one considers the under surface, trimeni in my opinion 
belongs near ella from which it only differs by the marks mentioned above. The first transverse band of 
the forewing above is white and accompanied by a large similar spot in area 1 b; the transverse bands of the 
hindwing beneath are irregular, parted into divisions, the second ends separate. Rhodesia, 
S. menelas Ham. Druce (69 g) is only known in the female and differs from all the species enumerated menelas. 
so far by the colouring above as well as by the quite irregular arrangement of the markings beneath. Both 
w-ings above black with a large orange median spot which on the forewing is situate between the anal margin 
