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editha. black, inside white. 110 mm. Gold Coast. editha Wichgrf. Similar to heisilia. On the forewing the black- 
white-red exterior line is about just as far from the margin as in the latter, slightly curved. The angle of the 
interior line is indistinct. Outside between the veins intensely dusted with black. On the hindwing the white- 
elisa. black line is broader black, without red. 95—100 mm. East Africa. ellsa Wichgrf. (— nigericola Strd.). 
The interior black-white-red line of the forewing is notched like lightning. The eyespot of the forewing has 
van. narrower rings than that of the hindwing. Fringes on both wings blackish. 2 100 mm. Togo, Niger. — vau 
Faroe, is an intensely red form, similar to elisa in which the red edging of the transverse lines is absent. East 
Africa. 
dido. X. hersilia Westiv. (= ansorgei Bothsch.). The most feebly marked form is dido M. <£• II . Ground¬ 
colour of forewing yellow, finely dusted with dark. Eyespot somewhat oblong, with violettish-brown, black, 
white rings. Exterior line black, inside edged with pinkish-white. Hindwing yellowish-pink. The interior 
dark line is indistinct, the exterior line as on the forewing. Eyespot with violettish-brown, black, red, white 
hersilia. rings. The normal form hersilia (50 a) has also an interior line, distally angular below' the cell, dark brown, 
rendalli. outside pink. retldalli Bothsch. The two lines are on the sides facing each other besides edged with red, like 
the eyespot. ansorgei is presumably only a dark-dusted hersilia. 90—110 mm. East Africa, Nyassa District. 
Uganda, South Africa. The larva is light green with short, red brown spines. A white lateral stripe is above 
broadly edged with red from the 4th to 10th segments. 
hersilioides. N. liersliioides Fleury. Very similar to hersilia. Eorewing without a hyaline spot. The interior line 
does not extend to the costal margin and is at any rate feeble. Exterior line only black-white. Forewing ot 
somewhat more pointed. Under surface powdered with red. Larva quite different from that of hersilia. 
Senegal. 
jcbhac. N. jebbae Sharpe. Similar to rendalli, more reddish. The exterior line only greyish-brown. The whole 
distal margin reddish-brown. The eyespot is only a small hyaline spot. The hindwing lacks the exterior line. 
Eyespot very large, similar to rendalli. $ 85 mm. Niger. 
licitarbas. N. licharbas M. <Sb IT. (50 a). Roth wings brown, in the $ darker in the marginal area. The interior 
line dark, with 2 bows, outside pink. Exterior line farther away from the margin, at the costal margin less 
incurved than in hersilia. in the inside distinctly, in the $ indistinctly bordered with white. Eyespot with 
reddish-brown, fine black, white rings. Hindwing with distinct broad black lines, both edged with white. 
ihyene. Eyespot large, with dark yellow, black, red, white rings. 115—125 mm. Togo, Tanganyika. — thyene Weym. 
is a small more intensely red-brown form. Eyespots of both wings relatively smaller. 95—100 mm. Cameroon, 
ienestricu- Tanganyika. — fenestriculata Strd. is a lighter or darker red-brown form, the hindwing intensely suffused with 
lata. pi n p Interior line of forewing black-white, mostly more pointedly angled below the cell. Eyespot of hindwing 
often very large. 110—130 mm. Togo, Cameroon, East Africa. Larva green. Spines brown with dark tips, 
situate in blue spots. Cervical shield and claspers yellowish-brown. 
phidias. N. phidias Weym. (51 a). Yellowish-brown, densely dusted with blackish-brown. The two lines 
broad yellow. The interior line below the cell obtusely angular, the exterior line very far from the distal margin, 
both on the averted sides edged with black. Hyaline spot in the eyespot somewhat larger, with dark brown, 
black, dark yellow rings. In the hindwing both the lines are broad pinkish-white, the exterior line broadly edged 
with black. Eyespot with red-brown, black, red rings, with a pinkish-white halo as far as the two lines. 
maasseni. 1 15—120 mm. East Africa. maasseni Strd . is blackish-brown. On the forewing both the lines are thin, distinct, 
yellow. On the hindwing both are white, narrower than in phidias. The halo around the eyespot is white, 
schonheili. narrower. £ 120 mm. Tanganyika. — schonheiti is slightly different from maasseni. 
aurantiaca. N. aurantiaca Bothsch. Dark orange-yellow. On the forewing the interior line is black-white, twice 
angular, the exterior line white-black, rather far from the distal margin. Eyespot with brown, black rings. On 
the hindwing the lines are the same. Eyespot very large. Without the black ring there is besides a red. whitish- 
pink. and red ring. 120 mm. Nyassa District. 
mpalensis. N. mpalensis South. Ground-colour light brownish-yellow, strewn with pinkish-white scales. Interior 
line fine red-brown, at the median vein excurved. Eyespot with yellow, black, red-brown rings. Exterior line 
blackish-brown, inside pink, far from the distal margin. Apex more intensely dusted with pink. Hindwing at 
the base pink. Eyespot with yellow, black, claret-coloured, pink rings. 110 mm. Tanganyika. 
rectilineata. N. rectilineata South . Reddish-yellow. The lines are thin dark brown, edged with pink. The interior 
line is straight, the exterior line at the costal margin nearer to the apex than in the preceding species, straight, 
slightly undulating. Base and costal margin pinkish-brown. The small eyespot has yellow, black, pink rings. 
On the hindwing the eyespot has yellow, red, black, red, white, red rings. $ 100 mm. Tanganyika. 
rendalliana. N. rendalliatia nom. nov. (= rendalli Bothsch. Nov. 4th, nee Noy. 3rd). Saffron-coloured. On the 
forewing the interior line is 3 mm broad, in the submedian fold inwardly removed, greyish-black, white and 
claret-coloured, the exterior line just as broad, the colours in the reverse order, excurved between the veins. 
Eyespot with nut-brown, red-brown, pink, claret-coloured rings. Hindwing as far as the exterior line claret- 
coloured. The eyespot with cinnamon-brown, black, red, white rings. The claret-coloured part of the exterior 
