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c??. Our two St. Tlioiiu'' specimens are ratlier small aud liavc tlie Mark discal 

 band of the liindwing narrow. (Speeimeiis with lerriii;iiious niidersidc of Imdv and 

 liindwing occur in West an<l East Africa. 



//(id. Continental Africa and islands near the coast. 



In the Tring Museum lo (S6,H ? ? from: St. Tiionn', .\ii. i. (Moc.]nerys) ; 

 Bopoto and Yakusu, viii., Congo (K. Smith); Natal : Kilwa, (Jerm. E. Afr., v. 

 (Heimer) ; Momliasa, v. (Dr. Ansorge) ; Ran, Nandi, ii. (Ansorge) ; Masindi, 

 Uganda, .\ii. (Ansorge). 



CLX. BASIOTHIA.— Typus : wMv,. 



Sjilii)!.'-, Fabricius (««» Linm', 175H), Sjier. lux. ii. p. 14.^ (1781). 



DeilephiUi, Boisduval (»o« Laspeyres, IHO'.l), Faiaie Mmhu/. Buiirh. p. 73 (18:-i:5). 



ChiienimiiijKi, id. (noii Duponchel, 1835), in Deleg., T'r/i/. Afr. Au.'!ti: p. 595 (1847). 



liiisiotlua Walker, Lht Lep. lux. B. M. viii. p. 124 (185(1) (type : klncus = nu'den). 



Chdercciiiiijia, M^n^tri^s, Eimm. Corp. Aiiim. Mux. Petr., Lep. p. 91 (18.')7). 



Baxiothea (!), Butler, Tranx. Zod. Soc. Loud. i.\. p. 552 (1877). 



Gimthoxtypxix, id. {iioii Wallengren, 1858), Aim. Motj. X. H. (5). iv. p. 23;5 (1879). 



Antinephele, Kirby {,i,m Holland, 1889), Cat. Lep. Uei. i. p. 043 (1892). 



cJ ? . Inner surface of palpus: scaling at ape.x of first segment dense and 

 regular ; second segment without apical tuft. On the outer side the fir.st segment 

 is strongly convex and bears a transverse crest of scales, resembling the crest found 

 in Sjjliingoiuiepiopsis, but being much smaller, or this crest represented by a fringe 

 along ej'e. Eye very strongly lashed. Antenna strongly clubbed in both sexes. 

 Abdomen with weak and numerous apical spines. 



Larva strongly tapering in front ; with seven ocelli. — Food-plant : Sjirrmncocc. 



Pupa : tongue-case compressed, but not very i)i'omiuent. 



I/ah. Aethiopian Region. 



The four species are in shape rather similar to some Tmnnom. 



Key to the species : 



a. Hind orange 694. B. mcdca. 



Hind brown GOij. B. laticoniis. 



Hind red ; a white double line on abdomen . 096. B. charis. 



Kindred; a sim])le line on abdomen . . 6U7. B. schcnki. 



694. Basiothia medea. 



Sjihiiix meden Fabricius, Spec. Inx. ii. p. 143. ii. 19 (17M1) (Afr. .aeqiiin.) : id., .!/((///. hix. ii. p. 94. 



11. 22 (1787) ; (imel., Siixl. X„l. i. p. 5. p. 2.'!7(!. u. 04 (17911) ; Fabr.. E,il. Si/xl. iii. 1. ]). ;!03. n. 23 



(179.3). 

 Si>hm.r idrleiis Drury, Illnxtr. E.r. Lis. iii. p. 2. t. 2. f. 2 & Imlex (1782) (Africa). 

 Sphiii.r rlio Fabricius, /.<■. iii. 1. p. 377. n. 05 (1793) (Guinea) ; Auriv., Eut. TUhlr. xviii. p. 153. 



n. 85 (1897) (= idrieiix). 

 SphiiLv imother'ma Martyn, Pxi/che t. 23. f. 59. 60 (1797). 

 Deihphila idriem, Boisduval, Fmuie Mad. Bonrh. p. 73. n. 4. t. 10. f. 5 (1833) (Bourbon : ]\Iaurilius ; 



Madag. ; Senegal ; Guinea ; = cUn). 

 Chiieroraiiipa idriaeiis (!), id., in Deleg., Voij. Afr. Aiislr. p. 595. n. 110 (1*^47) (Xatal) ; Gue'n., 



in Mail!., Jh lUiuiioii, App. p. 21 (1802) '; id., in Tins., Vny. Maday. p. 29 (1805) ; A'ius., Papill. 



Bourhuti p. 13 (1891). 

 Buxhthea idriritx {'.), Walker, Lht Lep. Inx. B. .V. viii. p. 125. n. 1 (1850) (Natal; S. Leone); 



Moschl., Verh. Zoul. Bot. Ges. Wieii xxxiii. p. 288. n. 83 (1884) (Caffraria). 

 Sjihliu- ? medea. Walker, I.e. viii. p. 2G3 (1850). 



