Species of the Genus Larinopoda. 259 



base, the dark scales reduced to a very fine line a little beyond 

 middle. Apex with sepia scaling forming a border about 1-5 to 

 2 mm, wide at apex, with a tendency to invasion of the ground- 

 colour on nervule ends. This apical darkening extends as far as 

 nervule 3. H.-w. all cream white. 



Underside. F.-w. much as above but apical dark colour reduced 

 to faint subtriangular marginal marks or even to a fine marginal 

 line. On costa, just above cell end, a well-defined subtriangular, 

 almost black mark, its base on costa. H.-w. with a rounded sepia 

 black submarginal spot in 6, and a small similar spot in Ic opposite 

 origin of nervule 2. 



There is a certain aniovint of variability in more or less 

 typical forms of this species, especially in the extent of the 

 f.-w. apical blackening. The costal black varies in width 

 and is sometimes rather sharply cut off opposite cell end. 

 It can be distinguished from other species except tera by 

 its cream-white ground-colour, and tera has a spot in h.-w. 

 cell beneath. Strand has described and named several 

 variations. Whether they all really belong to the present 

 species it would be impossible to say without examination, 

 but as the descriptions are published I give a short account 

 of them here. 



lircaea ab. alenica. 



F.-w. apical black 3 mm. wide at apex and reaches beyond 

 nervule 2. 



lircaea ab. alenicola. 



F.-w. apical black 4 mm. broad at apex but does not reach 2, its 

 inner edge somewhat dentate. Beneath, apex and margin suffused 

 with greyish. H.-w. beneath with two black quadrate s2:)ots near 

 anal angle. In female the f.-w. black reaches inner margin, and 

 in h.-w. underside there is in all areas an obsolescent black sub- 

 marginal spot. In cell a minute black dot, 



I think it extremely improbable that this is a form of 

 lircaea at all. It is probably a variety of eurema. 



lircaea ab. benitonis. 



Apical band as in alenicola. The black marginal band in basal 

 half of costal area is slightly broader and square cut at end. Under- 

 side of h.-w, with six distinct black submarginal spots. 



