Species of the Genus Larinopoda. 263 



Aeth, p. 273 (1898); in Seitz, Macrolep., p. 329, pi. 63 f. 

 (1914-18). 

 Nigeria (Warri, Lagos). 



f. braida. PI. X, fig. 9; PI. XI, fig. 2. 



H. H. Driice, Ann. Nat. Hist., (7), 11, p. 69 (1903); 

 Auriv., in Seitz, Macrolep., p. 329 (1914-18). 

 With type form. 



Exp. about 40 mm. (^ chalky white. F.-w. with sepia black on 

 costa extending rather beyond end of cell, where the dark colour 

 widens into a black subapical and marginal- border 5-8 mm. wide 

 at apex, gradually narrowing to hind angle, where it is 2-3 mm. 

 wide. H.-w. with a dark border of fairly even width (about 2-^ mm. ) 

 extending from apex to anal angle. 



Underside with sepia black markings as on upperside. F.-w. 

 with a black dentate mark about middle of costa and h.-w. with 

 a round black spot opposite origin of nervule 2, and a larger sub- 

 marginal spot in 6, often merged into the black border. 



$ variable, but with less black than in (?• Generally only 

 with a blackened f.-w. apex, and little or no black beneath except 

 the f.-w. costal spot and the two spots on h.-w, 



f. brenda. 



In this form, the type of which is a male, the upperside has the 

 appearance of the female of the typical form. Beneath, the f.-w. 

 has the costa rather broadly black as far as end of cell, where the 

 dark colour is somewhat abruptly terminated by the dentate costal 

 spot. Apex paler than on upperside. H.-w. with the usual spots 

 in Ic and 6, but with a row of delicate submarginal marks in the 

 internervular spaces in Ic to 5, that in Ic doubled. Hind and 

 inner margins with a fine black line. 



f. latimarginata. 



Appears to differ from typical aspidos only in that the dark h.-w. 

 marginal border beneath is continued, though more narrowly, 

 along the inner margin. Probably Grose Smith had not seen 

 aspidos when he described this form as a species, but it is difficult 

 to understand why Prof. Aurivillius keeps it as a separate species 

 in Seitz's work. It occurs commonly in long series of the type form 

 from Lagos. 



The Hope Department possesses long series of aspidos 

 taken near Lagos by Mr. Lamborn. Several pairs were 

 taken in coitu, and the female is always much less black 



