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P. roseola Clark (63 d). Similar to the <§ of priorities, but more pink. Ground-colour of fore wing light roseola. 
pink, markings darker pink; also the hindwing lighter pink. Probably only a race of consimilis. Drench Congo. 
P. coryndoni R. & J . (= reussi Strd.) (63 d). Apex of forewing strongly produced, forewing red-brown, coryndoni. 
densely dusted with a bluish grey, with 2 often band-shaped antemedian transverse lines and 2 postmedian 
ones. Postdiscal line only distinct as a spot before the tornus. $ with a dark subbasal dot. Hindwing brownish 
red, at the anal angle light grey, where there are a few dark spots, the margin and veins before them finely 
marked with black. East Africa. 
P. marshalli R. d? J . Forewing with a pointed though hardly projecting apex, margin entire. Forewing marshalli. 
pale pinkish tan-coloured, with 5 darker straight or feebly undulating transverse lines, the 3rd to 5th being 
equidistant. Subbasal dot absent. Hindwing more pink, with traces of a median and postdiscal band. Expanse: 
50—60 mm. Mashonaland. 
P. subjectus Wkr. (63 d). Forewing with an almost straight margin, blackish-brown, with a slight pink subjectus. 
tint, a double subbasal dot, the first antemedian line uniformly curved, the first discal line quite straight, the 
other lines indistinct, a darker spot about in the centre of the margin, a similar one before the tornus. Hindwing 
grey, with a darker small spot at the tornus. Fringes unicoloured. Congo. 
P. fulgurans R. <£■ J. Forewing pinkish grey, subbasal dot double, margin undulating, hindwing pink fulgurans. 
with a shadowy discal line and dark brown spots at the tornus. East Africa. 
P. numosae Wallgr. ( — mimosae Wllgr., cytis Drc., consanguineus Dist.). Paler than fulgurans, the numosae. 
lines in the basal half more indistinct, the first discal line obliquer. Median line of hindwing situate more 
towards the base. Caffraria, Transvaal. Distinguished by distinctly pink body and wings. — In fumosus R. cfb. J. fumosus. 
( = pelops Fawc.) (63 e) the body and wings are loam -coloured in the ground. British and German East Africa. 
- Still greyer is Hesperus R. &. J. with a feeble pink tint. Under surface paler than in fumosus, discal line hesperus. 
of forewing less slanting than in numosae. Rhodesia, German South West Africa. 
P. roseus Drc. (= reductus Karsch) (63 e). Similar to fulgurans, but only one subbasal dot in the roseus. 
forewing, the course of the lines being different, too. Hindwing more brick-coloured red, the transverse line 
not in the middle, but in the prolongation of the tornal spots. Sierra Leone to Cameroon. — In the form nieloui meloui. 
Obthr. (63 d) the forewing is shorter and obtuser, without any subbasal dots. Senegal. 
P. foliaceus R. & J. (63 e). Fore wing at the margin convex, not dentate, reddish-brown, without a basal dot; foliaceus. 
an oblique black line from the costal margin across the cross-vein, indistinctly continued to the tornus, a curved 
line at the costal margin before the apex, extending into the apex, enclosing a half-oviform darker costal- 
marginal spot. Hindwing pinkish-brown, at the base and anal margin lighter, yellowish; at the tornus a 
blackish shadow. S unknown. Frequently found sitting on calices fallen-from Musanga smithi. Togo, Misa Hill. 
P. baxteri R. & J. (63 f) has narrower wings than foliaceus, both wings being more suffused with a baxteri. 
pinkish purple tint, the first oblique line before the cell-end distinct as far as the tornus, the second terminates 
below the apex. Hindwing pink, at the anal margin with a longitudinal spot, and a spot at the tornus, marginal 
area shaded somewhat blackish. German East Africa. 
P. neavi Hmps. {— martha Closs) (64 e). Forewing brownish-red, veins yellow, cross-vein with a dark neavi. 
spot, expanded towards the tornus like a shadow, a triangular dark spot at the costal margin before the apex. 
Hindwing orange red, with a blackish spot at the anal angle. Fringes of hindwings red. Rhodesia. — In 
burorum Strd. (63 f) the wings are of a less bright colouring, the median band of the forewing and the spot at burorum. 
the anal angle of the hindwing are sometimes only indicated. Fringes of hindwings ochreous. Transvaal. 
P. calcareus R. &. J. differs from necivei in the median band of the fore wing being only traceably present calcareus. 
and in the blackish fringes of both wings. German East Africa, Nyassa Land. 
P. contrarius Wkr. ($ = submarginalis Wkr.) (63 f). In the marking and colouring very variable, contrarius. 
Subbasal dot of forewing small or absent; lines not always distinct, the postdiscal line most distinct; hindwing 
varying between pale yellowish and red-brown. In the nomenclatural race the margin of the S forewing is 
convex, the discal line of the hindwing beneath is quite near the cell, straight. Submarginal vein-dots of the hindwing 
in a uniform dark line. $ with a produced apex of the forewing. Natal and East Africa. — In submarginalis submargi- 
Wkr. (63 f) (= suffusus Wkr., adansoniae Bsdv., pechueli Deivtz., marginalis Btlr., perpallidus Holl.) the <$ has 
a straight margin of the forewing, a curved discal line being remote from the cell in the hindwing, and the 
narrow postdiscal line on the hindwing above is dentate. — The Erithraea-race diffusus R. <£■ J. is intermediary diffusus. 
between the two races; <$ above and beneath without transverse lines, with dark fringes and a shadow at the 
margin which is narrowed towards the apex. Hindwing pale reddish-brown, the extreme margin, but not the 
fringe, before the tornus blackish; at the latter 1 or 2 black dots. $ with traces of 2 antemedian lines and 1 
discal line with a subapical black dot and submarginal vein-dots. Hindwing with a feeble median transverse 
line without submarginal dots. — The form objedus Strd. is nothing else but a very light and small $ of objectus. 
submarginalis Wkr. 
P. retusus R. & J . (63 f). Forewing narrower than in contrarius, the margin being concave, the apex retusus. 
produced. Hindwing blackish, fringes without spots. Thorax with a dark median streak. Sierra Leone, 
Cameroon. 
