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that in area 5 united with the black costal-marginal band; parallel to the margin two antemarginal rows of 
small black dots; an extremely fine, black marginal line is absent in 1 c; fringes grey, partly yellowish; the 
small tails are black; that at the end of vein 1 b at the base yellow. Both wings beneath monotonously bright 
orange and decorated with separate black streaks and spots; they evidently correspond to the border-lines 
separating in neriene and amine the orange spots from the lighter ground-colour; on the forewing almost all 
the spots, on the hindwing only few spots are accompanied by silvery scales; the forewing has 5 transverse 
streaks in the discal cell and in the areas 4 and 5; 6 in area 2; 4 in area 3; three in 6, two punctiform 
ones each in 7 and 11, and one in area 10; in area 1 b there are a broad longitudinal stripe at the base, 
two large quadrangular spots in the centre and two smaller antemarginal transverse streaks; the hindwing 
is decorated with about 50 small, almost equally large, entirely separated black streaks (or dots); they form 
7 or 8 partly irregular or incomplete transverse rows; only some of the basal streaks and all those of the first 
submarginal transverse row are decorated with silvery scales. The only specimen lying before me seems 
to be a ^ (the forelegs are unfortunately not complete). East Sudan near Wau. 
Z. sorhageni Deivitz (70 a) is easily recognizable by its dark upper surface ond by the distinctly defined, 
unspotted, yellow marginal band. The species is not lying before me and I therefore copy Dewitz 1 description. 
,,Upper surface blackish-brown; the marginal line is accompanied by a row of yellow, small, almost quadrangular 
spots and before this there is another row of smaller, bluish-silvery spots; some few minute yellow spots or 
dots are scattered in the disc of both wings. The under surface looks variegated, mosaic-like by yellow and 
silvery small spots being intermixed in the blackish-brown ground-colour of the disc on both wings; regularly 
arranged are only the spots of the two rows accompanying the margin and occurring also above, the distal 
one of which is composed of yellow spots, the proximal one of silvery spots; the other yellow and silvery spots 
covering the disc on both wings are placed more irregularly. At vein 1 b of the hindwing there is a small black 
tail; another one at vein 2 is only partly preserved in the only specimen lying before me. Body black; ab¬ 
domen beneath with yellow ringlets; head marked yellow; legs and antennae black; palpi yellow.“ Central 
Angola. 
16. Genus: ©esmolycaena Trim. 
To the marks stated in the review of the genus on p. 377 we may merely add that the palpi are long 
and porrect. The shape of the wings is to be seen from the figure. 
Only a single species of this genus lias hitherto been described. 
D. mazoensis Trim. (70 a). <$. Wings above greyish-brown, everywhere with an intense light violet 
reflection. Both wings beneath brownish-grey, with numerous silvery and black dots or small spots, the arrange¬ 
ment of which is seen in the figure. The $ is unknown. The species was discovered by G. A. K. Marshall 
in the Mashuna Land. 
17. Genus: Axiocerses Hbn. 
Antennae with a long, cylindrical, gradually deposited club. Margin of forewing in the $ straighter 
and posteriorly distinctly emarginated, in the $ almost uniformly rounded off. Forewing only with 10 veins, 
veins 8 and 9 being absent; 6 and 7 forked, 10 and 11 separate from the costal margin of the discal cell. 
Hindwing at the anal angle with a broad though short lobe and a small tail at the end of vein 1 b; the proxi¬ 
mal margin behind vein 1 a deeply emarginated; margin slightly undulate. 
The forewing is above black or blackish with a larger or smaller, red or yellow uni-coloured or black- 
spotted anal-marginal spot. Hindwing above almost entirely or at least for the greatest part red or yellow 
with ($) or without 1 or 2 postmedian transverse rows of dark spots. Beneath the wings are strewn with 
numerous small silvery or golden spots margined with dark. Costal margin of forewing beneath at the base 
coloured light. The spots of the wings are, if they are present, above invariably black, but beneath generally 
pupilled metallic; they normally occur in the following number: forewing: two basal sjDots in the discal cell 
and one each in 1 b and 2; a transverse streak at the end of the discal cell; one discal spot each in 1 b (doubly 
pupilled) 2 to 7 and 10, and two in 11; an almost straight row of 6 often strigiform submarginal spots. The 
hindwing has basal spots in 1 c, 2 and 7 and the discal cell (2); a transverse streak at the end of the discal 
cell; discal spots in 1 a to 7 and submarginal spots or streaks in 1 b to 7. 
The sexes differ rather much by the shape of the wings and the colouring above. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Forewing beneath in area 1 b without a long silvery longitudinal line. — <$. The light colouring above not 
very dark, changing from red to reddish-yellow. 
sorhageni. 
mazoensis. 
