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XI. On the Species of the Gemis Larinopoda Butler. By 

 H. Eltringham, M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S. 



Plates X, XL 



[Read May 3rd, 1922.] 



The genus Larinopoda was founded by Butler in 1871 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 172, 1871). Doubtless at that time 

 the classification of the Rhopalocera on the structure of 

 the feet was not generally understood. In any case, 

 Butler seems to have had some difficulty in placing the 

 genus, and states that though " evidently belonging to the 

 Pierinae " it seems to be intermediate between Eronia 

 and Deloneura. He states that its " natural position in 

 the Pierinae is between Nepheronia and Euchloe." 

 His description of the genus is as follows : — 



" Wings pyriform ; front wings with five subcostal branches, 

 the first emitted at a short distance before the end of the cell, the 

 second immediately before the end, the third half-way between 

 the cell and apex; the fourth and fifth at two-thirds the distance 

 from the cell to the apex; upper discocellular short, slanting 

 obliquely inwards; lower three times the length of upper, angu- 

 lated, slanting obliquely outwards; median branches emitted near 

 together; hind-wings with subcostals emitted close together, so 

 as to reduce the upper discocellular to a point ; lower discocellular 

 very oblique, about eight times the length of the upper ; second and 

 third median branches emitted at about half the distance from each 

 other that exists between the second and first ; body short, robust ; 

 abdomen swollen beneath; legs thick, antennae short, slender, 

 feebly clubbed; palpi long, slender, not hairy." 



The type of the genus is given as Larinopoda lycaenoides, 

 but the same insect had been described by Hewitson five 

 years previously as Liptena lircaea. It is rather remarkable 

 that Hewitson recognised this species as a Lycaenid and 

 in the same year not only placed the species now known as 

 Citrinophila erasfus amongst the Pierinae, but exhibited 

 considerable annoyance when its real affinity was pointed 

 out by the late Roland Trimen. (See Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 B. vol. 91, 1920, pp. xxiv, xxv.) 



Smith and Kirby mention the genus again in 1887 (Rhop. 

 Exot. Lycaen. vol. 1, Oct. 1887), referring it to the Lycae- 



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