NUD AURELIA. By M. Gaede. 
only feebly developed. Eyespot-small, with yellow, black, reddish-white rings. Fringes of both wings blackish - 
brown. Beneath claret-coloured and pinkish-grey. A dark brown band in the forewing close behind the eyespot, 
on the hindwing a band enclosing the eyespot. $ 115 mm. L. Kivu. 
N. guein/ii Karsch (52 b). Dark orange-yellow. Interior line fine brown, outside broad pink, notched. guciir.ii. 
rectilinear, at the costal margin broader light. Eyespot with a rather large hyaline spot, with yellow, red and 
pink fine rings. Exterior line brown, inside pinkish-white, often besides finely edged with reddish, at the costal 
margin inside broad light. In the distal area a pink notched band which may be absent. Hindwing at the 
centre of the costal margin pink. The large hyaline spot has orange-yellow, black, pink rings. The two lines 
as on the forewing, often touching the eyespot. 95— 120 mm. East Africa. venus Rbl. exhibits the apex venus. 
of the o forewing rounded and produced. Of the interior line only the light distal portion is present. Hyaline 
spot small. On the hindwing the eyespot is smaller, also the base is hued with pink and only the anal margin 
is yet orange. 115— 120 mm. East Africa. - myitea Rbl. (52 c) has a taperingly produced apex in the often myrlcu. 
a large hyaline spot being also inside straightly cut off as in venus, very finely margined with yellow at most. 
On the hindwing the eyespot is as large as in gueinzii. A 125—150 mm. East Africa. nyassana Rothsch. is nyassuna. 
smaller, darker, the interior line is more notched, the exterior line at the costal margin more remote from the 
apex, therefore steeper. Hindwing also intensely pink. Nyassa District. - fasciata f. n. The interior line is fuse tula. 
as in nyassana, besides there is behind the hyaline spot, somewhat excurved around the latter, a broad reddish- 
brown straight band vertical to the inner margin. On the under surface it is not excurved and passes through 
the hyaline spot. 1 $ 100 mm. Abyssinia. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
N. rubra Bouv. Similar to gueinzii by the reddish ground-colour and the scanty spotting in the marginal rubra. 
area. Eyespots similar to (Hone and ivahlbergi. The exterior line on the forewing is black, inside edged with 
violettish-pink, straight. In the A hindwing continued, in the 2 almost absent. The interior line in the edged 
with pink. Eyespot of forewing with a hyaline spot being cut off inside, with yellow, cerise, pink and reddish 
rings. Eyespot of hindwing similar to dione with yellow, black, pink, cerise rings. 100—112 mm. Congo. 
N. aftinis Bouv. also resembles gueinzii. Ground-colour pale pinkish-brown. The interior line is affinis. 
white and large, the exterior line narrow, black, inside intensely white. On the hindwing the exterior line is 
almost straight. On both wings a dark median band passes through the eyespots, in fasciata this is not the 
case above and the interior line is anything but white. Delagoa Bay. 
N. rhodophila Wkr. (— intermiscens Wh\) (53 a). Apex of forewing in the and 9 somewhat rhodophila. 
produced. Ground-colour greenish-brown. Interior line vertical to the inner margin, outside broadly white, 
somewhat dentately defined. Hyaline spot as in anthina, but without a margin. The distal line at the costal 
margin nearer to the apex, the pinkish-white broad notched margin directly follows. Hindwing at the costal 
margin pink. Interior line broad white, exterior line and its edge as on the forewing. Eyespot with dark orange- 
yellow, black, dingy yellow, white rings. 90—125 mm. Sierra Leone, Togo, Cameroon, Congo. — Larva almost 
unicoloured red-brown, with 6 rows of plain, coniform, blackish-brown spines with sharp points. The spines 
basally with short soft hairs. Head, dorsum on the 1st segment, anal plate, and feet yellowish-brown. The 
2 dorsal spines are united on the 11th segment. 
N. sonthonnaxi Weym. (= alopia SonJu). Forewing copper-brown, apex produced. Interior line sonthou- 
vertical, brown, outside white, indistinctly so as far as the centre of the wing. The small hyaline spot is feebly naxi 
edged with blackish-brown. The exterior line is placed as in rhodophila, outside broadly, inside only at the 
costal margin edged with a pinkish white. Hindwing at the costal margin pink, otherwise as on the forewing. 
The interior light line is excurved at the anal margin ; eyespot with brown, black, copper-brown, white rings. 
The dark exterior line is somewhat flawed in the centre. J 90 mm. Tropical Africa. I take this ,,species"' 
to be an aberrative rhodophila. 
N. alopia Westw. According to Weymer this is a species different from sonthonnaxi. The eyespot alopia. 
of the hindwing is only formed by 3 rings, a reddish-yellow, black, and pinkish-white one. Nor is there anything 
mentioned in the original description about the flaw of the exterior line. 105 mm. 
N. alceslris Weym. Vein 10 of forewing rising separately, the species is ranged here; the author alceslris. 
compares it with conradsi which belongs to the belina- group, and with zambesina in which vein 10 is very shortly 
stalked. Fore wing more tapering than in zambesina . Ground-colour greenish greyish-yellow, somewhat more 
brownish than conradsi . Interior line dark brown, outside white, from 1 , of the costal margin to before the 
centre of the inner margin quite straight, in front the white margin has broadly flown out. Hyaline spot 2 mm 
large, surrounded by a margin of the ground-colour and a white one of 0 mm diameter. Exterior line fine dark 
brown, outside edged with white, posteriorly more broadly so. Hindwing more brownish, with a straight 
interior line. The size of the eyespot varies between zambesina and conradsi , with a large hyaline spot/ with 
red-brown, black, yellowish-grey, white rings. Costal margin almost not pink. Exterior line dark, inside finely, 
outside more broadly edged with white. $ 135 mm. Type in a private collection. 
N. staudingeri Aur. (53 a) is extremely similar to belina, more yellowish-green. Hyaline spot in the staudingeri 
forewing hardly edged with dark. Interior line at the costal margin introangular, not straight as in alcestris. 
Exterior line inside finely, outside more broadly edged with white. Hindwing with the same eyespot and the 
same interior line as in belina. Exterior line inside white, outside broad black, the latter part with an indistinct 
