r 210 ) 

 172. Rhadinopasa hornimani. 



*nasi(iii(i lionumiiiii Druce, I.e. (1880) (CaniPi-nons ; — coll. Druop). 



Baiiam hornimanm (!), Hnlland, Trans. Amci: E,il. Soc. xvi. p. GO. n. 23. t. 3. f. 5 ( ? ). fi (/).) (1889). 

 *nhacH)ioj)asa tidei Kaisch, l.r. p. 15. t 1. f. 4 ( ? ) (1891) ( ? , Camernons ; ? , Ashanti ; — Mus. Berlin). 

 Rhadiiiopaw hnrmuum;, id., l.r. p. 29i;. n. 1 1 (1891) i-mh-;) : Aiiriv , E„l. TiiUhr. xiii. p. 182. n. 230 



(1891) (cJ, Cameroons). 

 Itl,mi;,w,.si< (!) Iinnihm,,,;, Kirby, /..-. 



c? ?. Varialilo in size. FciiiKrii witli a small tniV ol' lilack hairs near the tiji. 



(S. Tfiith toro-itc broad, curved, flat, suddenly narrowed fo a hook (PI. XXII 1. 

 r. Jl ) ; slernite a low. trapezoidal, sinuate ridae. Clasper elongate, jiradnally 

 narrowed to end (PI. XXXII. f. (i) ; a dorso-hasal [irooess beset with setil'erons 

 tubercles as in Chiniii ; harpe represented by a curved, lonuitndinal, mniti-denticniatc 

 ridge, reminding one of that found in ('hiniK tindnlo.ni. I'cnis-slieath witliout 

 armature, as in CJanis and some species of Polf//iti/r/iii.'<. 



? . Not dissected. 



Larva: Dr. W. J. Ansor.ue reared a specimen of this species from the cater- 

 pillar, and preserved, very fortunately, tlie last skin of the catei'pillar as well as 

 tlie shell of the chrysalis. The head, pronotum, legs and anal segment have 

 apparently been red ; head large, round, granulose, the granules higher and more 

 dispersed laterally ; thoracic and abdominal segments with many spikes, which are 

 about 2 mm. long, regularly conical, smooth, pale, with dark tips, those on the 

 penultimate segment nearly entirely black, anal segment with three spines above 

 and two approximate ones at the apex. Pupated July 4th ; imago, September 7th. 



Pupa glossy ; head rounded ; slieath of tongue elongate-triangular, acute, 

 ending 4 mm. short of tip of sheath of foreleg; mesonotum transversely rngose ; 

 metanotum narrowest in middle, the anterior margin being somewhat concave ; 

 abdominal tergites densely and deeply punctured in front, the punctures becoming 

 smaller and scarcer beliind, the sides smooth near the stigmata of segments 1 to 4, 

 scarcely with any punctures ; segments S to 7 transversely multicarinate nt the 

 bases before the stigmata, the carinae low but sharp, the interspaces concave, 

 punctures all round the stigmata ; eighth segment more smooth, not densely 

 jiunctured at the base above, not carinate in front of the stigmata ; punctures of 

 sternites not so dense and deep as above, the punctured area more restricted. 



JIab. West Africa: Ashanti country to Cameroons, doubtless more widely 

 distributed. In several collections. 



In the Tring Museum 2 S S tVdUi : I'ijiindi, ( 'amemons (Zenker) ; Akri Ugidi. 

 Lower Niger (Dr. Ansorge). 



LIII. METAMIMA8.— Typus : (uistndusia,'. 



Sphlii.r, Donovan {iion Linnf^, 17,'JH), Ins. N. Noll. t. 33 (1806). 



Acheroiitia, Boisduval {non Laspeyres, 1809), Voy. Astrolabe, Lip. p. IHl (1832). 



Cneeiuosa Walker, LikI Lep. Ins. D M. viii. p. 256 (1856) (partim ; type : trkimjiihirh). 



Drarhycilossa Boisduval [non id, 1829), Spec. Gen. Lep. Hel. i. p. 10 (1875). 



Metamhnas Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 582 (1877) (partim ; type : aiislnilaska). 



c? ? . Tongue rather stout, but barely reaching end of forecoxa. Palpus slender, 

 not much larger in S than in ? , narrow in veutral view, being compressed, pro- 

 jecting, pointed. Antenna slender, distal segments higher thou long, end-segment 



