﻿LYC^NID.E 
  (African). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XYIII. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  LARINOPODA. 
  

  

  Lnrinopoda, 
  Butler 
  (antra, 
  vol. 
  i. 
  pp. 
  5, 
  37, 
  51, 
  65). 
  

  

  IX.— 
  LARINOPODA 
  LARA. 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Lar'niopoda 
  Lara, 
  Staudinger, 
  " 
  Iris," 
  vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  218 
  (1892). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  about 
  1\ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  white, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costa 
  narrowly 
  bordered 
  with 
  

   blackish 
  for 
  two-fifths 
  of 
  its 
  length; 
  and 
  after 
  a 
  short 
  interval, 
  an 
  ashy 
  space 
  

   succeeds, 
  occupying 
  the 
  whole 
  apex, 
  and 
  extending 
  more 
  narrowly 
  along 
  the 
  

   hind 
  margin 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  lowest 
  sulnuedian 
  nervule, 
  which 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  cross. 
  

  

  Underside 
  white. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costa 
  before 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  

   the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  narrowly 
  edged 
  with 
  black 
  ; 
  a 
  large 
  blackish 
  

   blotch 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  some 
  irregular 
  blackish 
  blotches 
  

   towards 
  the 
  tip. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  blackish 
  spot 
  near 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  

   often 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  smaller 
  dots 
  below 
  it 
  ; 
  just 
  below 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  lowest 
  sub- 
  

   median 
  nervule 
  is 
  a 
  smaller 
  black 
  spot. 
  

  

  Head, 
  thorax, 
  a 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  above, 
  and 
  the 
  antennas 
  mostly 
  black, 
  

   the 
  latter 
  ringed 
  with 
  white, 
  most 
  distinctly 
  below, 
  and 
  with 
  tawny 
  tips 
  ; 
  palpi 
  

   iukI 
  legs 
  tawny, 
  the 
  palpi 
  tipped 
  with 
  black, 
  and 
  the 
  tarsi 
  ringed 
  with 
  black. 
  

  

  The 
  sexes 
  hardly 
  differ. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cameroons 
  (Victoria 
  and 
  Barombi) 
  and 
  Gaboon. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  Dr. 
  StauJinj^er 
  and 
  H. 
  Grose 
  Smith. 
  

  

  Most 
  nearly 
  allied 
  to 
  L. 
  Eurema, 
  Pliitz 
  (anteu, 
  vol. 
  i., 
  Afr. 
  Lye., 
  p. 
  38, 
  jil. 
  9. 
  figs. 
  7, 
  8; 
  but 
  

   in 
  that 
  species 
  the 
  undersurface 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  is 
  much 
  darker 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  

   always 
  a 
  spot 
  in 
  the 
  cell 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  II., 
  JULY. 
  1892. 
  n 
  

  

  