262 Dr. H. Eltringham on the 



Typical examples may be thus described : — 



Exp. about 40 mm. (J chalky white. F.-w. with costa rather 

 broadly blackened, slightly wider at cell end, then narrower, and 

 again widening out into apical black which is about 6 mm. wide 

 at apex, and continues in a gradually narrowing hind- marginal 

 border to hind angle. 



H.-w. with a marginal black line and within this a dusting of 

 sepia black scales, slight at apex but considerably extended at ends 

 of areas 3 and 2. Black spots of underside showing through lather 

 conspicuously. 



Underside. F.-w. as above but dark markings palei'. A costal 

 spot above end of cell at which costal black abruptly terminates. 



H.-w. with margin as above. In 6 a sub-marginal rounded dark 

 spot and often a minute one above it in 7. A small rounded spot 

 in Ic opposite origin of nervule 2, and a larger conspicuous black 

 spot in cell, and sometimes a second minute one above it. $ like 

 the cj but with only a dark marginal line on h.-w., and reduced 

 dusting of dark scales beneath. 



The amoimt of sepia black scaling in this species varies 

 in both sexes, and minute additional spots sometimes occur 

 on the underside. A male example from Kumassi has nearly 

 as much dark marginal border as aspidos, and on the 

 underside there is a second small dark spot beneath that 

 in h.-w, 6, 



In some females the dark scaling is reduced to a mere 

 greyish suffusion, but in all the 44 examples before me the 

 spot in h.-w. cell beneath is constant, and this serves to 

 distinguish it from other species except tera, from which 

 it can be separated by the pure chalky whiteness of the 

 underside. 



The species is very closely allied to aspidos, and there is 

 but little difference between the male armatures. 



Larinopoda aspidos. PL X, figs. 7, 8 ; PI. XI, fig. 4. 



H. H. Druce, Ann. Nat. Hist., (6), 5, p. 25 (1890); 

 Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 38, p. 215 (1893); Auriv., Rhop. 

 Aeth., p. 273 (1898) ; in Seitz, Macrolep., p. 329 (1914-18). 



ToGOLAND, Nigeria (Lagos, Benin). 



f. latimarginata. 



Gr. Smith, Novit. Zool., 5, p. 354 (1898) ; Auriv., Rhop. 



