264 Dr. H. Eltringham on the 



than the male. There is, however, considerable variation, 

 and some females have the h.-w. underside much darkened 

 along the margin, especially at anal angle, and where this 

 marginal darkening is obsolescent a submarginal series of 

 spots remains. Some females have also a darkened h.-w. 

 margin on upperside, but apparently never so complete a 

 border as in the male. There is variation from the typical 

 male to the brenda form, some males having a reduced 

 blackening on the h.-w. margin. The brenda form seems 

 really to be a male with the pattern of the female, the 

 black h.-w. border being practically absent above and 

 reduced to submarginal spots beneath. Occasional female 

 examples are all white above with the f.-w, apices merely 

 greyish. The species and probably the whole genus would 

 appear to be very distasteful, as they are very easily caught, 

 and in fact can be picked up with the fingers. 



Larinopoda tera. pi. X, figs. 11, 12; PI. XI, figs. 

 1, 3. 



Hew., Ent. Mo. Mag., 10, p. 125 (1873); Auriv., Rhop. 

 Aeth., p. 273 (1898); Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 43 

 (1910); Auriv., in Seitz. Macrolep., p. 329, pi. 63 f. (1914- 

 18). 



= soyauxii. Dew., Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., 41, 2, p. 201, 

 pi. 26, f. 10 (1879); Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot., 

 15, p. 51 (1891) ; pi. 12, f. 9, 10, (as soxauxii) (1891) ; 

 Auriv., Rhop. Aeth., p. 273 (1898). 

 Cameroon to Uganda. 



Exp. 30 to 40 mm. Sexes not markedly different. Typical 

 examples are white or dusky white. F.-w. dusted with sepia on 

 costa and with a sepia brown apical patch some 6 mm. wide at costa 

 and gradually narrowing posteriorly, sometimes reaching hind angle 

 but generally ending in 2. H.-w. often brownish at inner angle 

 and the shaded markings of underside produce a faint pattern. 



Beneath the f.-w. has a brown triangular mark on costa opposite 

 end of cell and the apex is shaded with pale brown. The h.-w. has 

 a spot in cell, sometimes two or three, and there may be a spot in 

 7 and Ic, and another on discocellulars. The discal and marginal 

 areas have pale brown undulating markings of a pattern too 

 inconstant to be usefully described. 



The undulating shading of the h.-w. underside suffices 

 to distinguish this species. Western examples generally 



