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LEPTOMYRINA. By Dr. C. Aueivillius. 
phidias. 
hirundo. 
makala. 
bosch i. 
B. Hindwing at the anal angle somewhat extended and more or less sharply angled, but neither with a small 
tail nor an anal lobe. Hindwing beneath grey, speckled with black and brown, without distinct markings 
and without black marginal spots. — Gonatomyrina sub. nov. — Wings above with a coppery brown 
ground-colour. L. lara. 
L. phidias F. (70 b). Forewing on both surfaces with a black, white-ringed eyespot in 1 b at the anal 
angle; hindwing above with jet-black, white-ringed marginal spots in 1 c and 2, and a dark spot on the anal 
lobe, beneath the spot in 1 c is almost entirely covered with bluish scales, the spot in 2 being proximally bordered 
with yellow and the distally white anal lobe is proximally black with some yellow and bluish scales. Wings 
beneath light grey with dark grey markings surrounded by whitish; these markings consist on the forewing 
of a transverse streak at the end of the discal cell and cliscal streaks or dots in 1 b to 7 and 10, a postdiscal line 
composed of bows, and rounded marginal spots of which only that in 1 b is jet-black and distinct. Hind wing 
with a basal dot in 7, a transverse streak at the cell-end, an irregular discal line, a postdiscal line and marginal 
spots of which those in the areas 3 to 6 are scarcely darker than the ground-colour. The $ is somewhat 
larger than the but otherwise it hardly differs from it. Madagascar. 
L. hirundo Wallengr. (70 b). Wings above blackish with a faint violet or bluish reflection (<J), or 
brownish-grey without a reflection ($); forewing with a black marginal spot in 1 b surrounded by bluish (<$) 
or whitish ($), hindwing with 2 such spots in 1 c and 2, and besides also with a black spot dusted with greyish- 
yellow on the anal lobe. Both wings beneath whitish with the very same markings as in phidias, but the discal 
spots often in the yelloAvish; forewing with a yellowish, hindwing with a blackish marginal line. Cape Colony, 
Caffraria, Natal, Delagoa Bay, and British East Africa. 
L. makala Baker must, according to the description, be very closely allied with hirundo and seems 
only to differ by the darker under surface. The description of Bethune-Baker runs as follows: ,,Both wings 
dark brownish-grey; forewing with one or two eyespots at the anal angle, the pupil being blackish, the ring 
cream-coloured; hindwi'ng with two such spots at the anal angle and before them with a marginal line on each 
side bordered by a fine, yellowish-white line interrupted at the veins; another whitish, likewise interrupted 
line nearer at the discal cell. Beneath soft stone-coloured grey; on the forewing the discal cell is closed by 
a light brown transverse streak filled up with white, above it and somewhat outside of it two small brown 
costal dots; discal band brown bordered with white, bent in the opposite direction to the discal line, at 
the anal angle with a black spot; hindwing with a light brown, white-pupilled transverse streak at the 
end of the discal cell; before it behind the costal vein (vein 12) and nearer at the base a double spot; 
another punctiform spot almost at the middle of the costal margin; at the proximal margin a spot behind 
the transverse streak of the cell; a very irregular discal line (,,postmediaT“ line) is very much interrupted 
behind vein 4; the submarginal line is little interrupted and bent outwards, distally to it another indistinct 
line; a black spot between the veins 2 and 3, and another one on the anal lobe, both towards the base 
bordered with orange; a long, small brown tail bordered with white. Expanse of wings: 29 to 31 mm.“ 
Congo District near Makala. 
L. boschi Strand (70 b). Strand himself believes that it is closely allied with makala, but in the descrip¬ 
tion he only compares it with lara which belongs to a different division of the genus from hirundo and makala, 
and only mentions that it differs from makala by the presence of two eyespots in the anal angle of the fore¬ 
wing beneath. The description says: ,,Compared with L. lara L. above all the colouring above is different,being 
light ash-grey with a slight brownish hue in the marginal area and traces of a greenish tint in the basal area. 
The marginal area of the forewing shows, as in lara, two black ocelli posteriorly, but they are almost 
equally large, whereas in lara the anterior one is by far smaller, besides there is a third ocellus traceable by 
the presence of a white ring. In the marginal area of the hindwing there are only two jet-black ocelli, 
but by the presence of white rings, 4 or 5 more ocelli are indicated; this whole row of ocelli is proximally 
bordered by a band composed of dark coherent crescents. Marginal line on both wings black, fringes whitish. On 
the u nder surf ac e the forewings are lighter than in lara, the hindwings almost like in that species; forewing 
with a transverse discocellular spot encircled by a lighter shade, and opposite to it at the costal margin there 
is a dark dot and between this and the postmedian transverse band there is another punctiform spot ringed 
with light; this transverse band consists of 6 dark, distinctly white-edged, coherent spots and is almost straight, 
at the anal angle there are two black spots as above and 4 more dark light-edged spots are to be seen 
in front, this row being proximally bordered by brown crescents. The marginal area of the hindwing shows 
an indistinct sublimbal band which is midway expanded by dark dusting, and a small jet-black spot in the 
