SPINDASIS. Bv Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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S. nilus Hew. is only known to me by the figure of the female typical specimen. Wings above at nilm. 
the margins blackish, otherwise dark grey or yellowish whitish-grey with thick blackish transverse bands; 
forewing with a transverse spot at the middle of the cell, a transverse band at the apex of the cell, one between 
the costal margin and vein 4, and a broad, somewhat bent submarginal band uniting with the second 
transverse band in area 1 b; between these bands the ground-colour is lightest, yellowish whitish-grey, but 
parted by the third transverse band; on the darker hindwing three blackish transverse bands, one from the 
costal margin across the apex of the cell to the anal angle, one from the costal margin to vein 4, and a com¬ 
plete, bent submarginal band. Under surface whitish-grey, at the margin somewhat darker with the marginal 
bands surrounded by black, which are not or only slightly darker than the ground-colour; the two proximal 
submarginal lines therefore appear as lines; hindwing with a red spot at the end of vein 1 b. On the White 
Nile and (?) in Nigeria. 
S. kaduglii Beth. Baker is described to be closely allied to S. victoriae. The description, however, kaduglii. 
clearly proves that this species is either coincident with S. nilus Hew. or only a race of it. The description runs 
, )C J. Head and collar very light fawn-coloured; both wings faded straw-coloured, very much darkened by blackish 
markings; forewing with the base light brownish terminating into a darker transverse band; costal margin 
broad light brownish; the postmedian band broad, at vein 4 distally angularly broken, continued as far as 
behind vein 2, and united at vein 2 with the broad, dark submarginal band which gradually widens from the costal 
margin towards the anal angle; the subcostal triangle of spots also touches the submarginal band; between 
the latter and the marginal band there are traces of a light line. Hindwing almost entirely darkened; the 
short, broad subapical spot and the broad submarginal stripe are the only distinct markings/' The rest 
of the description entirely fits to S. nilus as well as S. subaurea. Cordofan. 
S. subaurea Smith (69 g) is above similar to kaduglii, though with a lighter, whitish ground-colour subaurea. 
in the middle, and between the marginal band and the submarginal band distinctly lighter ysllow. Under 
surface with a yellowish-white, creamy ground-colour, and at the margin as far as the most proximal sub- 
marginal line darkened with a light brownish yellow; the markings are surrounded with black or ferruginous 
and not or slightly darker than the ground-colour and decorated with lustrous silvery or leaden spots; the 
third transverse band only consists of a small spot in 8, the fourth, however, of three spots in 6 to 4, of 
which, however, that in 5 is much nearer at the base than that in 6; we might therefore consider the spots 
in 5 and 4 to belong just as well to the third transverse band. The first transverse band of the hindwing 
is almost straight between the costal margin and vein 1 b, the second terminates at vein 4; vein 1 b is some¬ 
times orange at its apex. Nigeria near Lokoya and in North Cameroon. 
S. lutosa Plotz is described according to a specimen being so badly preserved that I was unable to lutosa. 
determine or to describe the species, when I saw the type many years ago. The original description says: 
,,The upper surface is brown, with a blue tinge towards the margin of the hindwing, the under surface is light 
brown with some darker brown, whitish-pupilled transverse spots and a dirty white, almost triangular spot 
the broadest base of which is in cell 1, behind the middle of the forewing. The two tails of the hindwing are 
fine and short. Forewing 14 mm.“ Ashanti, near Aburi. The species can only be approximately indicated 
by a new examination of the typical specimen. 
S. aderna Plotz (S' — fallax E. Sharpe ; 2 = latifimbriata E. Sharpe) (70 a). Wings beneath with adema. 
a brown ground-colour reflecting grey particularly on the hindwing, being broadly lighter yellowish at the 
anal margin of the forewing; the marking consists of silvery streaks or dots which are usually finely bordered 
with black and then more broadly with red-brown or ferruginous-brown; forewing with two similar streaks 
in the discal cell, one at the end of it, a basal dot in 1 b, a discal, almost straight transverse streak between 
the veins 1 and 4, a transverse streak somewhat nearer at the margin-between 4 and 6, and one dot 
each in 6, 8 and 9; rather distantly before the margin a transverse row of 7 silvery, only distally black dots 
in the areas 1 b to 6; hinclwing with two dots in the discal cell and one each in la, 1 c, 7 and 8, a trans¬ 
verse streak at the end of the cell, a discal band being only interrupted at vein 7 and otherwise almost coherent, 
in the area 1 c, however, rectangularly bent round towards the proximal margin, and a similar, though quite 
coherent submarginal band being bent round already at vein 2; the latter band usually has no silvery scales 
between the veins 2 and 7 and is therefore uni-coloured ferruginous there; anal lobe more or less black, a silvery 
marginal spot in 1 c. Above the sexes are quite different; in the S the wings are bright violettish-blue, the 
foreAving at the apex broad, at the distal and costal margins narrow black, the hindwing all round black 
with a large orange anal area; in the $ the forewing has a large orange anal-marginal spot reaching at least 
vein 5; hindwing orange, only at the costal margin broad black and witH a fine black marginal line. Sierra 
Leone to the Congo District and Kavirondo in Uganda. — spindasoides Auriv. By a regrettable error of obser- spindasol- 
vation I was induced to describe this form as an Aphnaeus ; on a close examination I have found that the 
forewing has only 11 veins, vein 8 being absent and vein 7 terminating into the apex of the wing as in all 
the species of Spindasis. The form is in fact so closely allied to S. aderna that T can now only consider 
