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Cross-vein black. Distal half browner with 2 dark brown lines. The outer line double, filled with pink. Veins 
in the distal third black. Hindwing smoky grey, tinted with pink, with 2 feeble bands. Marginal area more 
intensely pink. $ similar though without pink. Abdomen and fringes of both wings yellowish. 90—100 mm. 
Uganda. 
H. soricis Rothsch. Body brownish-grey. Forewing grey and brownish-grey, distal third darker soricis. 
brownish-grey. At the base 2 dark lines opposite each other. A median and outer dark line with a light space 
between them. Hinclwing as far as 3 / 5 inside light grey, outside brownish-grey with an interior, shadow-like, 
dark band. Margin in both wings dingy yellow. 100—115 mm. Sierra Leone. 
H. rhodoptera Gerst. (45 d). Head yellow, thorax dark red-brown, abdomen orange-brown. Forewing rhodoptera. 
rather uniformly brown or reddish-brown. Around the cross-vein 2 to 4 small black spots. Median line 
dark, feebly S-shaped, outer line incurved at the costal margin, double, filled with white, with short dents on 
the inside. Behind it somewhat darker, only the lunular line light. Hindwing as far as the median line pink, 
behind the undulating outer line darker. 85—100 mm. East Africa. 
H. abyssinica Rothsch. is smaller than the similar rhodoptera. Thorax and forewing drab. Median abyssinica. 
line replaced by a fine nebulous line. Hindwing yellowish-grey with reddish-brown hairs at the anal margin. 
80—95 mm. Abyssinia. 
H. distincta Rothsch. (46 a). Head reddish-yellow, thorax smoky brown, abdomen pinkish-brown. On distincta. 
the fore wing the interior two thirds are smoky brown and cinnamon-brown. At the cross-vein a tripartite black 
spot. Behind it a nebulous dark median line and a double, slightly undulating outer line, filled with fawn-colour, 
with sagittary spots at the veins. The distal third is halved by a notched nebulous line. Inside of it yellowish- 
grey, behind it cinnamon pinkish-grey. Hindwing pinkish cinnamon, the distal third somewhat grey, parted by 
a nebulous undulate line. 80—90 mm. East Africa. It is doubtful whether the figured specimen belongs to this 
species, since the median band is by no means shadow-like. From the common rhodoptera it differs in the some¬ 
what different course of the lines in the forewing and more intensely red hindwing. 
H. zernyi Gschw. Greyish-brown. Collar and shoulder-spots black. On the forewing the first line from zemyi. 
the base and the second l cm distant from it, vertical to the costal margin. On the cross-vein a tripartite black 
spot. The third and fourth lines are parallel, vertical to the inner margin and here close at the second line. In 
the distal area a light undulating line. Hindwing lighter greyish-brown with 2 broad black bands, particularly 
the second very broad (14 mm). 1 <$ 152 mm. East Africa. If the species is really a Hoplojana, its denomination 
is justified, but it seems to be a J. caesarea the second band of which is situate abnormally far distad. 
H. purpurata Wichgr. Forewing withouth markings, of a dull purple red. At the costal margin and purpurata. 
base glowing red. Fringes yellowish-red. Hindwing like forewing, at the base yellowish. 70 mm. Sierra Leone. 
20. Genus: Acrojaua Aur. 
Palpi projecting somewhat beyond the frons. Antennae of y 3 of the length of the costal margin, in 
the <$ moderately long pectinated, in the $ shorter. Hind tibiae with 4 spurs. On the 9 forewing the apex is 
produced. Vein 5 a little below the centre of veins 4 and 6 . Above vein 5 the cross-vein is directed very much 
inward. Vein 6 somewhat separated from veins 7 + 8 + 9. In the hindwing vein 5 is the same, 6 and 7 dis¬ 
tantly separated, 8 nearing the centre of the cell, where it is connected with it by a bar. Type: sciron Drc. 
A. sciron Drc. ( = ochracea Strd.) (45 d). Thorax and forewing red-brown. A straight dark line from sciron. 
near the apex of the forewing to % inner margin, before it dusted with grey. Close behind it a lead-coloured 
line, the ends of which are somewhat excurved. Hindwing similarly coloured. From the costal margin to below 
the cell and to the distal line pinkish-brown with 2 straight dark lines from % and 4 / 5 of the anal margin to 
the apex. At the anal margin and behind the distal line lead-coloured scales. In the 9 the grey irroration ol 
the fore wing is more extensive. In the distal area a grey and a greenish stripe. In the hindwing of the 9 the 2 
lines are closer together. The light costal margin extended to the distal margin. 90—120 mm. Sierra Leone, 
Cameroon. 
A. splendida Rothsch. Thorax violettish-grey, abdomen paler. Forewing apple-green. The oblique apical splendida. 
line, the costal margin, and a large square spot in and behind the cell, as well as small basal spots violettish- 
grey. At the base of the costal margin a chocolate-brown spot. Hindwing at the costal margin broad pinkish 
carmine, the rest apple-green with lines and clouds of a violettish brownish-grey. 9 125 mm. Gold Coast. It 
may be merely a sciron with a different colouring. 
A. scutaea Strd. Much smaller than sciron and darker. Costal margin of forewing narrow lighter. At the scutaea. 
cross-vein a light spot. The dark inner line somewhat more distinct than in sciron, composed of 2 bows, whilst 
in sciron they are not so distinct, but apparently with several dents. On the hindwing the pinkish-brown bright¬ 
ening hardly extends to the centre of the cell downward, but as far as the distal margin. The lines in both 
wings as in sciron. — sanguinipes Strd. (45 d) only differs in the costal margin of the hindwing being only light sanguini- 
as far as the centre. A black inner-marginal spot near the base of the fore wing is more distinct. $ 80 mm. 
Cameroon. 
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