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it to be the eastern race of it. The $ differs from that of S. aderna by the anal region of the hindwing above 
being dark umber-coloured (not orange). The $ is unknown to me. ,,German East Africa“: Kigonsera. 
loxura. S. loxura Rebel is unknown to me and described according to a single $ from the plains of Rutchuru 
in Central Africa. Forewing black with a very large, reddish-yellow anal-marginal spot extending to vein 4, 
leaving the base of the wing broad black and being also separated from the margin at the anal angle by a 
black margin. Hindwing reddish-yellow with a fine black margin and a blackish anal lobe exhibiting a coarsely 
scaled, brown, small tail of 5 mm length with a black median line; on vein 2 a much finer, short tail. The 
under surface resembles more that of S. aderna, but it is darker and much more distinctly marked, par¬ 
ticularly the distal brown transverse stripe of the hindwing is very prominent. The forewing has a sharper 
apex and a more convex margin than in S. aderna in which the hindwing is also at the costal margin broadly 
bordered with black. Length of fcrewing: 14 mm. 
S. leonina deviates from all the other species by the peculiarly marked under surface. The ground¬ 
colour beneath is very pale, light yellow, with sharply defined, red-brown or ferruginous-brown discal areas 
and often also with such marginal bands or such spots at the margin; the silvery spots surrounded with black 
are entirely or almost entirely absent in the light ground-colour and appear only distinctly in the red-brown 
areas; the bases of both wings are invariably covered by the light ground-colour. Forewing above black with 
leonina. a large or small orange anal-marginal spot. Hinchving above orange, at the base more or less black. — leonina 
E. Sharpe (70 a). Both wings beneath with a coherent, about 2 mm broad, orange or red-brown marginal band. 
E- Anal-marginal spot of forewing above very small or streak-shaped. The anal-marginal spot of the 
parado.ra. forewing is situate behind the middle and reaches vein 4 or 5. Sierra Leone and Togo. — paradoxa Schultze. 
Idle orange-red marginal band of the under surface is well developed on the forewing only in the areas 1 b to 3, 
otherwise absent or only indicated by small spots, and is entirely absent on the hindwing at the middle of 
the margin; the red-brown discal area of the forewing extends from vein 2 to the costal margin and covers 
the apex of the cell and the bases of the areas 2 to 6, 8 and 9; the red-brown discal area of the hindwing 
extends from the costal margin to the proximal margin forming a broad transverse band which is very 
much widened at the proximal margin. Forewing of the above as in the principal form. North West Ca- 
bitje. meroon. — bitje H. Druce deviates from the two other races by the dark marginal bands beneath being 
entirely absent. Forewing above in the <$ with a large orange anal - marginal spot reaching the discal cell. 
Cameroon near Bitje on the Ja-River. 
14. Genus: Chloroselas Btlr. 
Chloroselas closely approaches the genus Spindasis and only differs by the first subcostal vein of 
the forewing (vein 11) joining the costal soon after its rise. It may therefore be easily overlooked. The eyes 
are bare. 
Wings above in the $ blackish-brown changing to coppery brown with an orange spot at the anal angle 
of the hindwing, in the <$ with a reflecting blue anal-marginal spot of the forewing, and the greatest part of 
the hindwing blue; forewing besides in the at the end of the discal cell with a black mealy spot or 
transverse band. The orange anal spot of the hindwing as in the $. Under surface greyish-yellow changing 
to reddish with black, metallic-pup died spots. 
The small species are little known and have hitherto only been met with in South and East Africa. 
The differences between the species are still very uncertain and are besides doubtful owing to the figures given 
by Butler and Trimen not agreeing with the descriptions. 
Review of the Species. 
I. Hindwing only with one short small tail (at vein 1 b). Ch. tamaniba. 
II. Hindwing with two short small tails, one at 1 b and one at 2. Ch. pseudozeritis. 
tamaniba. Ch. tamaniba Wlk. The short description of this species says: ,,Bronze-brown; forewing in a certain 
light blue at the base and in the posterior half; hindwing blue with a narrow brown marginal band; an orange 
spot adjoining to the small tail in which it expands, is distally bordered with a lustrous steel-blue; under 
surface reddish-grey with lustrous metallic spots and a narrow submarginal band of the same colour; some 
of the spots towards the margin bordered with jet-black or accompanied by jet-black spots; some black 
spots between the submarginal band and the margin; fringes light grey, at the base black.“ Hor Tamaniba. 
esmeralda. — esmeralda Btlr. (69 g) was described much later, in 1886, according to specimens from the Somaliland, 
as follows: ,,Forewing above with the anal-marginal half as far as the base though except the costal 
margin lustrous emerald green, in a certain light, with a purple lustre and in another light with a reddish 
reflection: the basal half of the costal margin invariably of this colouring; apical half smoky brown; a 
