A specimen of this form was bred by Professor Sjostedt the larva was entirely light red, somewhat inclining to violet, with black spines the pupa is whitish with black markings and on the back of the abdomen (on segments 3-5) armed with three pairs of long, thick spines, hooked at the tips these spines are yellow-red at the base and the two last are longer than the rest the head bears two long, divaricating horns, distally armed with a small tooth.
#Bear umbra free
in breadth, forms in 2 and in 3 two free or almost free triangular spots and is placed far beyond the apex of the cell, so that the base of cellules 3-6 is broadly black thus this female differs entirely from those of the preceding species ( alcinoe). nov., which occurs in the Cameroons, differs in having the base of both wings still darker smoky brown, whilst the forewing bears a white transverse band, very narrow and almost broken up into spots on the upperside this transverse band only occurs in cellules 2-6, is only about 2 mm.
The female here figured as "male" thus agrees very exactly with Drury's figure and description. It was described by Drury from a female from Sierra Leone, in which the basal part of the forewing is dark yellow-brown and the transverse band is entirely absent also the basal part of the hindwing is dark brown-yellow to beyond the middle with the usual black dots at the base. umbra Drury (58 f, called male but certainly a female) is a species not yet quite accurately known, which closely approximates to the preceding.
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