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 '■i-i'K Lophostethus demolini. 



"Smorinthe Dumolin" Latreille, in Cuv., liifjiic Aiiim. iii. t. 20. f. I {18:^,11) (Ki'iii'gal). 



•V""-'- ili'inulmi Angas, I.e. t. HO. f. 11 (184',)) (Natal). 



Lnj,/,i,sl,H)iis dimol/ni, Butler, Tninx. Zool. ^nr. L,,ii,l. ix. p. .")H5 (1H77). 



Tlic species was first fignrcd hy Latreille, I.e., Imt only under a French 

 desij;-nation. All the names on that plate are French, not Latin. These designations 

 are : Castnie Hilbner, Aegocere Roisduval, Coi'onis d'Urville. As a matter of 

 course, these names have no standing. To our knowledge Angas was the first to 

 give the insect a scientific name. Buisduval says that he himself had figured the 

 species as a Smerinthua in Latreille, Families Naturellc.a, but we cannot find the 

 plate there ; perhaps he meant the Rrgne Animal cited above. 



Jhb. Aethiopiau Region except the Malagassic Subregion. 



Two subspecies : 



a. L. ilfnioli)n carti'ri. 

 Latreille, J.r. 

 SnieriiilliKS ileiiiol/iii. Walker, Li.f' Lrp. Ilel. li. .U. viii. p. 250. n. 12 (18.o6j (partim ; syu.) ; Dewitz, 



JIM. Mihich. K„t. Vei: iii. p. 27 (1879) (Chinchoxo). 

 Enrlea (hiiniliiii, Boisduval, .S/wc. Gen. Lep. IIH. i. p. 15. n. 1 (1875) (Galam : larva alia spec.). 

 Lophostethus demolini, Butler, I.e. (partim). 

 L(fjiho.itethus (lumolini,KiThy, Cat. Lep. FJet. i. p. 7U5. n. 1 (1802) (partim); Druce, in Moloney, 



West Afi: Foi-edi-ij p. 40.S. n. 10 (1887). 

 Lophostethux airlcri Rothschild, Nov. ZociL. i. p. 07 (1894) (Lagos). 



c??. The characters by which cnrteri was said to be distinguished from the 

 Eastern demolini prove on receiijt of more material to be more or less variable, so 

 tbat no absolute reliance can be placed upon them. The West African individuals 

 are darker in ground-colour than the Eastern ones ; the black, triangular, sub- 

 marginal patcli R- — M' of the upperside of the forewing is shorter, the two small 

 submarginal patches M' — (SM') are absent or faint, the antemedian aud the discal 

 lines are on the whole farther apart at (SM') and the black ]>ostmedian costal patch 

 of the underside is smaller, not extending beyond R'. Tenth tergite broader than 

 in demolini demolini. 



Hah. West Africa : Senegal to the Congo. 



In the Tring Museum 3 (JcJ, 1 ? from Sierra Leone (Mitford ; Stevens, in 

 August) ; Lagos ; Congo. 



//. L. demolini demolini. 

 S/jhin.r ilciiii/liiii Angas, I.e. 



Smeriiithus diimo/iiii, Walker, I.e. (Natal ; syn. excl.). 

 i'.iiclea dmiioHiii, Boisduval, I.e. (partim ; Natal). 

 LophustelUits drnioliiii, Butler, I.e. (partim, syn. cxcl.). 



Lophostethus diimoliiil, Kirby, I.e. (partim) : Meld., in Weism., Sl,id. Tlieur;/ Dexreiil ii. p. 527 (1882) 

 (descr. of larva) ; Fawc, Tmn.'-: Zool. Soc. Loud. xv. p. 307. n. 0. t. iX. f. 7. H (I., p.) (1901). 



c??. The tenth tergite of the 6 varies somewhat individually. It is sinuate 

 with the lobes pointed in a specimen from Uganda in the Tring Museum (Kamuauura, 

 Bulamwezi) ; this individual represents possibly a third geographical race, bnt it is 

 too much rubbed to allow description ; the wings have aii{)arently been nearly as 

 dark as in carteri. 



The early stages of the cateri>ilhir sliould be studied. We assume that the 

 young larva has a triangular head. 



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