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reaching) the colour of the forewing at distal margin, the wliitisli proximal area sliowing a very small and 
weak cell-dot. Underside much as in antennaria, only with the postmedian line of the forewing arising rather 
further from the apex. Port Elizabeth, May 1919 (Fritz Simons), type ^ in the Transvaal Museum. 
A. rufaria Warr. (13 d). Broader-winged than antennaria, distal margins noticeably gibbous. Forewing rufnrla. 
brighter red-orange, hindwing above more distinctly marked than in most of the preceding, its cell-dot very 
small but distinct, the postmedian line complete, though not very strong. Angola (type),. Nyasa. Transvaal 
and Natal. 
A. somereni Front (13 e). Distal margins a little more gibbous than in rufaria, coloration darker, on .^ornercni. 
account of moderately strong dark-grey irroration; cell-dots slight (on the hindwing not or scarcely discernible), 
lines slender and not very strong, but the postmedian (even on the hindwing) with noticeable white edge distally. 
Underside paler (in rufaria strongly reddish), with apex conspicuously whitened, postmedian of hindwing less 
cremdate and sinuate. Kenya Colony, only ^ known. 
A. lacuum S'p. n. (13 d). The ^ is very similar to that of somereni but larger (39 mm), the type more tacvum. 
orange, forewing Avith cell-spot larger, the dark lines thicker, the antemedian sharply angled in the cell. Both 
wings beneath somewhat as hindwing above, but with some grey irroration. The $ is a little larger (41 mm), 
much darker, the foreAAdng above being very densely irrorated and strigulated with dark-grey, the irroration 
also strengthened on hindwing and underside. pectinations 5 or 6 times, about 3 times diameter of an¬ 
tennal shaft. Marunga Platean (S. W. Tanganyika), 7000 feet, February 1922, a pair collected by T. A. Barns. 
A. tenoris Front. (^, 36 mm. Forewing narrower than in rufaria, shaped more as in antemiaria; the ieywri«. 
4th and 5th subcostals fork unusually near the apex; as far as the postmedian line orange-yellow, with some 
reddish or vinaceous suffusions and some coarse black dots, distal area brownish vinaceous, with some orange 
suffusion' cell-spot small, antemedian indicated by a black spot in cell and a streak behind; postmedian 
almost straight, deepest black at its ends, the line which bounds it distally pale brownish vinaceous. Hindwing 
with the line rather broad, blackish, the cell-dot obsolescent. Kwatebala (Katanga), only the type known. 
11. Genus: Cophoplilebia Warr. 
Probably a more specialised development of Aspilatoims, agreeing in most characters with the most 
stoutly built members of that genus. Palpus moderate. Tongue rudimentary. Antenna, even in the $, with 
long pectinations. Wing-margins irregularly sinuate, the hindwing (especially in the $) more or less strongly 
crenulate. 
C. olivata lUarr. (13 e). The type of the genus. The d is always predominantly green, slightly variable oUvaia. 
in the amount of the light and dark mottlings, but always retaining the pale shade just outside the postmedian. 
The $ is larger, broad-Avinged, much more suffused with vinaceous or violaceous shades in the proximal and 
distal areas. Zomba (the type) and distributed from N. W. Rhodesia through Ruanda and East Africa to Abys¬ 
sinia. 
C. trimeres sj). 7i. (13 e) can scarcely be a remarkable aberration or local modification of olivata, but irimeres. 
is in any case worthy of a name. The clean light lemon-yellow ground-colour (possibly more greenish AAdien 
bred), quite with out cloudings (only Avith very fine and sparse irroration) and the extreme dar¬ 
kening of the proximal and most of the distal area, far surpassing the contrasted effect of $ olivata, are quite 
characteristic; antemedian line as oblique as in tullia (J. Underside identical Avith upper. Dungu, Upper Uelle 
district in September, one in Tring Museum. 
C. tullia Faiocett (13 e) differs in its redbrown colour, more sinuous postmedian of the hinclAving and tullia. 
other details. The blackish spot near anal angle of foreAving is inconstant in the $$. S. E. Kenya Colony. — 
ab. viridescens Faiocett has the same markings, but the median area is green, similar an tone to olivata, and viridescens. 
this colour also pervades a considerable part of the distal area. The type, from Kedai, is lost, birt the British 
Museum has 2 good (^<5' from Voi. 
12. Genus: Sicyocles Warr. 
Face generally smoother than in Asjnlatopsis. Antennal pectinations in the 2 very short, sometimes 
wanting. Build on an average slightly less robust, size in general smalle' . Wing-shape about as in some of 
the broad-winged Aspilatopsis. Sexual dimorphism, especially in the typical species {cambogiaria), strong. 
Probably, however, as has been already indicated, As'pilatopsis Avill harm to be made a mere section, if not a 
synonym, of Sicyodes. Chiefly South African, though reaching Kenya and a part of Belgian Congo. 
