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PHASIS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
connexivus. 
bamenda- 
n us. 
brunneus. 
species, is above quite different from the J and from the $ of C. alphaeus; the under surface is paler than in 
the $ with distinctly prominent discal spots which are also on the forewing completely developed as far 
as area 1 b; the yellow anal-marginal area is very pale or only traceable. J. F. Leigh found the larva in Natal 
in the fruits of Protea hirta; the eggs are deposited on the immature fruits; the larva in its juvenile stage is 
almost black, gradually turning lighter, and in its adult stage being coloured almost like the larva of Cossus 
ligniperda, boring its way into the fruit where it also pupates after having made an aperture in the wood-like 
wall of the fruit; pupa brown; the larvae are visited and licked by small ants. Natal, Transvaal, and Mashuna 
Land. — connexivus Btlr. (70 g) only differs by the $ showing the red colour above less expansive and exten¬ 
ding on the forewing not to the base, on the hindwing not to.the costal margin. The $ hardly differs from 
that of the type, but according to Butler the ground-colour above is more lavender-coloured. Nyassa 
Land. — bamendanus Schultze was discovered by Lieutenant A. Schultze near Bami in the grass-land of Central 
Cameroon, and is distinguished by the <$ above showing the forewing coloured and marked like in the type, 
but the hindwing like in connexivus. The discovery of this species, .that had hitherto only been known from 
South Africa, in the hinter-land of Cameroon is geographically most interesting. 
C. brunneus Auriv. Shape of wings and anterior feet as in the of connexivus ; hindwing, however, 
without a mealy spot at the rise of the veins 6 and 7; both wings above uni-coloured dark blackish-brown with 
a faint violet or a somewhat coppery reflection; forewing behind the discal cell in area 4 indistinctly scaled 
reddish; fringes whitish with a distinctly prominent red basal line; under surface as in connexivus , but with 
indistinct markings. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. German East Africa: Kigonsera. 
20. Genus: I*Hasis Hbn. 
Antennae rather thick; antennal shaft with short joints; club cylindrical, gradually deposited. Palpi 
long, porrect, with a thin, pointed terminal joint, beneath either bristly or only coarsely scaled. Forewing 
generally with 12 veins, vein 7 in this case always terminating into the margin; if there are only 11 veins, vein 
9 is absent and vein 8 is sometimes very short, vein 7 terminating into the apex of the wing; vein 6 rises separately 
from the apex of the discal cell; hindwing at the margin dentate or undulate, rarely entire-margined; at the 
anal angle usually sharply angled or with a short tail without an anal lobe, rarely rounded off. 
The wings above are almost invariably orange with black markings or black with orange or yellow 
markings, rarely quite blackish or silvery grey. Forewing in all the species beneath with the same marking 
consisting of the following black or dark spots often filled up with white: 2 successive dots or spots in the 
discal cell, a transverse spot at the end of the discal cell, a basal spot in area lb; an irregular transverse 
row of 6 or 7 discal spots in 1 b to 6 and 9, a dark postdiscal band or transverse row of spots, and dark 
submarginal streaks or spots; the latter two markings, however, are often indistinct or absent. The hindwings 
are very differently marked in the different species and sometimes without any spots; if the marking is distinctly 
prominent there, it consists of the following spots usually filled up with white or lustrous silvery: one basal 
spot each in 1 a, 7 and 8, two basal spots in 1 b and in the cell; a transverse spot at the cell-end; an 
irregular bow of 8 discal spots (in 1 b, 1 c, 2 to 7), an almost uniformly bent or almost straight row of 8 post¬ 
discal spots in 1 b to 7, and finally of 5 or 6 submarginal or marginal spots. The black bordering of the 
spots of the hindwing is sometimes entirely absent; the spots appear then as white or silvery spots. 
The numerous species may be divided into 3 groups of species or subordinate genera. 
Review of the Groups of Species. 
A. Hindwing with two small tails, one at the end of vein 1 b, and one at the end of vein 2. Forewing with 
12 veins, vein 7 terminating into the margin. — Phasis Hbn. s. str. First group of species. 
B. Hindwing at the end of vein 1 b angular or tailed, at vein 2 always without the small tail. 
a. Forewing above without the black discal band or separate black discal spots, always with 12 veins; 
vein 7 terminates into the margin. Palpi below coarsely scaled without bristly hairs. ■— Aloeides 
Hbn. Second group of species. 
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[i. Forewing and often also the hindwing above with black discal spots on a light (orange) ground, or the 
forewing above with a coherent black discal band being only united with the black marginal band in area 
1 b and at the costal margin. -— Poecilmitis Btlr. and Chrysoritis Btlr. Third group of species. 
