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lines and not pupilled white; such specimens, however, also occur in amanga. —■ mendeche Smith (70 c) has a mendcchc 
median band on the forewing above being about 7 mm broad at the anal margin, and two similarly coloured 
spots in the discal cell; the band is yellowish-red in the <£, anteriorly bordered by vein 5 and there about 4 mm 
broad, in the $ it reaches vein 7, being almost equally broad as far as vein 6 and of a reddish-yellow colour. 
British East Africa near Mombasa, but probably also in other parts of East and South Africa, although it 
was hitherto mixed up with amanga. —- ab. bistrigata ah. nov. Forewing above in the areas 2 and 3 in the bistrigata 
red colour with separate or almost separate black discal streaks which are entirely absent in the type. Matabele- 
land and German East Africa. — borealis Auriv. only deviates from the type by the median band of the forewing borealis. 
above being narrower (in the <$ at the anal margin about 4 mm and at vein 4 only about 2(4 mm broad), 
and by the light spots of the discal cell being quite absent (J 1 ) or only indicated ($). Discovered by 
Schttltze in Adamaua. 
A. amanga Westw. (70 b, c) is distinguished by the very broad base of the costal margin being almost amanga. 
in its whole width scaled silvery white, in the forewing beneath. Like in the other species, particularly in the 
S the width and length of the red anal-marginal spot on the forewing above is very variable; in one $ 
(from the Mashuna Land) it is almost equally broad and reaches vein 6, in another from Daressalam it is reduced 
to a streak in 1 a and a small spot in 1 b; in the other specimens it is of an intermediate size between the 
said extremes. Forewing above at the base of the costal margin broadly orange. German South West 
Africa, Matabele Land, Natal, Transvaal, Mashuna Land, Nyassa Land, German and British East Africa. 
A. baumi Weym. is unknown to me, but as Weymer himself asserts, closely allied with amanga. To baumi. 
the marks mentioned in the review of the species the following may be added: on the forewing above the dark 
bordering at the costal margin is in the middle about 1 mm broad, at the apex 2 mm, at the distal margin 
below the apex only \ x / 2 mm, and gradually tapers off towards the anal angle where it terminates into a fine 
point; across the terminal vein of the discal cell extends a fine, brown, posteriorly tapering streak anteriorly 
coherent with the dark costal margin; at the base of the anal margin there is some black dusting, but 
only iy 2 mm broad; the brown colour of the margin is in some places intermixed with red scales, whereas brown 
scales extend from the margin along the veins proximally. The base of the hindwing above is dusted with brown 
in a width of about 1 mm. Angola. 
A. punicea Smith (70 b, e) is at once discernible from all the other species by the silvery longitudinal punicea. 
stripe in area 1 b on the forewing beneath. Wings above jet-black; forewing at the base of the costal margin 
yellowish-red and with a dark hemochrome anal-marginal spot sometimes reaching to vein 6, sometimes only 
to vein 3; hindwing with a large hemochrome area covering the anal region and the posterior margin as far 
as the apex of vein 1 a, expanding anteriorly as far as vein 5 or 6, and proximally reaching to the apex 
of the discal cell; under surface red-brown, with a violet reflection and with spots pupilled silvery white. In 
the $ the wings above are pale oclireous with a broad blackish marginal band of the forewing and generally 
also of the hindwing; discal cell of forewing and costal margin of hindwing also more or less darkened; under 
surface marked like in the <$, but of a lighter yellowish ground-colour. Manica Land; German and British East 
Africa. 
18. Genus: Xieptoinyriita Btlr. 
Antennal shaft thin, filiform with long joints; club distinctly defined, short, more or less compressed. 
Palpi long, porrect or a little bent up; the first and second joints below bristly; third joint long, ending in a 
sharp point, thinly covered with appressed scales. Eyes bare. Forewing with 10 veins (8 and 9 being 
absent); vein 5 from the middle of the transverse vein; 6 and 7 from the same place, the apex of the discal 
cell; 7 terminating into the apex; 10 and 11 separate from the costal margin of the discal cell. The 
hindwings as usually have 8 veins and are at the anal angle either sharply angled or lobate and tailed. 
The species are distinguished by both wings above showing at the anal angle one or two black, light- 
ringed ocelli. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Hindwing at the anal angle long extended, lobate, and with a long tail at the end of 1 b. Hindwing beneath 
with distinct transverse markings and with two black ocelli proximally bordered with yellow, one of which 
is on the anal lobe in 1 b and the other at the margin in area 2. 
a. Wings above light bluish-grey; the apical third of the forewing and 2 or 3 undulate submarginal lines 
blackish. L. phidias. 
(3. Wings above blackish-grey or dark brownish-grey; hindwing at the margin with whitish rings and before 
them with a whitish, undulate, interrupted transverse line. 
*. Ground-colour beneath whitish or whitish-grey. L. hirundo. 
**. Ground-colour beneath stone-grey. L. maJcala. 
