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SOMATINA. By L. B. Prout. 
'niipuiirtii- 
Icita. 
cluilj/hocdfa. 
f iiiH/iferK. 
(ip'icipiiHC- 
ta. 
sfdafa. 
friiKs. 
lia. 
iosria. 
nuclcdia. 
vc.vfalis. 
virginaJis. 
dio'canhira. 
pyfhidria. 
prohlcptica. 
S. syneorus Prout (5 k). A fine species, the 9 with some approach in colour and markings to pm-puras- 
cens Moore hut consideraldy larger, d' l^ss large, scarcely surpassing irupanctulata (of which syneorus may well 
]U’ove a form), the brownish or fleshy suffusions of the $ almost absent. Gaboon (ty 2 :)e), Cameroons and Sierra 
Leone. 
S. inipunctulata Warr. (5 k) more reseml)les a robust, rather thickdined Scopula and was actually 
described in that genus, l)ut has the double areole. Lines less thick than in syneorus (J, j^ostmedian of forewing 
less dee|)ly sinuous, of hindwing less angled outward on the 1st radial; terminal line faint, the dots obsolete. 
Sieri'a Leone, only the ty^^e known. 
S. chalyboeata Wall. (5 k). Easily distingidshed from syneorus $ by the curiously curved (anteriorly 
longitudinal, between the 3rd radial and 2nd median strongly jjroduced) central band. Sexes similar. Described 
from the CAngo, known also from the Ivory Coast and Gambia. 
S. fungifera Warr. (5 k). Related to syneorus and chalyboeata but white, the sidherminal lines much 
less dentate in the middle, the median band nearest like that of chalyboeata, but differently shaped and less 
darkened. Longo: Kassai district. 
S. apicipuncta Prout (5 k) has the 2nd sidicostal of the forewing arising from the cell, but is in all 
other res]jects a true Souiatina. Distal margin of fore wing with only 2 black dots, the one in front of the 5th 
subcostal large, the one behind that vein minute; median line of both wings fine and straight. Gold Coast. 
S. sedata Prout (bf). Cleaner white^and more shining, recalling a Bapta or Racasta in its tone. Natal 
(loc. ty}).) and Madagascar. 
S. fraus Prout (5k) is another white sj^ecies, but of a more bluish white than sedata-, median shade 
broader and more oblique, ])ostmedian on both w'ings sinuous. Hindtibia more slender than in sedata. Oubangui- 
CLari-Tchad, only the ty^re known. 
S. lia Prout (6 f). Ktiov n by its fleshy ground-colour and whitish, almost straight lines. Comoro 
Islands (ty 2 :)e) and N. Madagascar. 
S. ioscia Prout (5 k). Rather larger and broader-winged than sedata, the head and costal edge without 
any oclueous coloiir. Wings pale grey with rather strong lilac-grey reflections and with some fine olive-grey 
irroration. The indistinct olive-grey lines commence from characteristically darkened and oblique costal streaks. 
Distal areole of forewing extremely small. Mato 2 )])as, Bulawayo, only the ty|3e $ known. 
S. nucleata Wair. (Of). A grey species, distinguished by its ocellated cell-marks - oval dark rings, 
])U])illed with light brown and surrounded with wldtish. Sierra Leone (type). Gold Coast, Nigeria and Sao Thome. 
S. vestalis Butl. (6g). The curious form of the median band, with a rounded “head” and 2 blackish 
distal ])oints, like the oj^en beak of a bird, immediately distinguishes this s^Jecies and the following from all 
the rest, including even their nearest Indian allies, oniicraria Fb., etc. vestalis has the d' hindtibia non-dilated 
and with 2 s^iurs. Distal areole vailable, sometimes minute or altogether lost. Descrilied from Natal, but 
distributed to the Cape, Kavirondo and S. Mozamlhque. 
S. virgmalis Prout (bg). Hindtibia of strongly dilated, with hair-pencil, the spurs wanting, the 
tarsus greatly al)breviated. Otherwise hard to distinguish from vestalis (bg); the distal clouding at the radials 
weak or wanting, hindwing with the discal jiatch continued (often without narrowing) to the abdominal margin. 
Congo and Angola to Kenya and Nyasaland and even known from Sierra Leone, the tyjje from Uganda. 
S. mozambica Th.-Mieg. Unknown to me, jmssibly an aberrant form of vestalis, but the descriiition 
does not conform to the Mozambique vestalis which I have seen. Exjianse 17 mm (tij) to ti])). “Antenna jjec- 
tinate." Cell-marks irregularly shajK^d, a little oval, [tartly black, jjartly red-brown, sprinkled with metallic 
scales, on both wings with a small, roiind whiite s|)ot in the centre. A dentate black subterniinal line. Forewing 
in addition with a very small sjwt on hindmargin. Mozambique: Il)o, 2 (Jd' (described as a Problepsis). 
S. pythiaria Guen. (5 k), founded on 2 from Abyssinia, evidently belongs to the groiq) for which 
the best known name is figurata Warr., but I have not been able, from GrENEE’.s crude figure, to identify it 
with any maderial in our British collections. “Somewhat yellowish wddte, with 2 parallel, denticulate grey 
lines and 2 series of subterniinal shades, also of a jiale grey. Eorewing with a subreniform cell-ring formed of 
raised scales, metallic plumbeous idaced on yellowish brown. Hindwing with a constricted reniform discal 
ocellus, nacreous Avhite with slightly yellowish centre.” 
S. probleptica Prout (5 1). More Problepsis-YWe in the well-develo])ed, silvery-edged cell-marks, and 
as the areole is single in the only two examjiles yet known it seems to be really transitional towards that genus; 
5th subcostal arising from the extremity of the areole or scarcely .stalked. Hindtibia of dilated, with yellowish 
hair-X)encil, the tarsus abbreviated. Northern Nigeria, 1 1 
