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 172. Rhadinopasa hornimani. 



*Basiana hornimani Druce, I.e. (1880) (Camerooui ; — coll. Druee). 



Basiam hormina>i„i (!), Holland, Trans. Amer. Enl. Soc. xvi. p. 66. ti. 23. t. 3. f. 5 ( ? ). 6 (p.) (1889). 

 *Itha(lhioj>(,mii(!eiK-iriich,l.r.p. 15. t 1. f. 4( ? )(1891) ( 5 , Camernons; ?. Ashanti ;— JIiis. Berlio). 

 Rhmlinopasu Jinrnimani, id., I.e. p. 29G. n. 11 (1891) (^iiriei): Auriv , Enl. Tiihlr. xiii. p. Ihl2. n. 230 



(1891) (cJ, Cameroons). 

 Pliitrlinopds (!) liornimnni, Kirby. '.'■. 



(? ? . Variable in sizo. Femora with a small tuft of black hair.s near the tip. 



c?. Tenth tergitc broatl, curved, flat, sndrlenlj- narrowed to a hook (PI. XXIII. 

 f. -1); sternite a low, trapezoidal, sinuate rids'e. Clasper elon<jatp, uradualiy 

 narrowed to end (PI. XXXII. f. (1) ; a dorso-basal jiroc.ess beset with setiferous 

 tubercles as in Cbiniii ; harpe represented by a curved, lonnitndiual, multi-denticulate 

 ridge, reminding one of that found in Clfii/in ii»(hiIo.'<ii. Penis-sheath witliont 

 armature, as in Clanis and some species of Poliiiiti/rlui.-i. 



? . Not dissected. 



Larva : Dr. W. J. Ansorge reared a specimen of this species from the cater- 

 pillar, and preserved, very fortunfitely, the last skin of the caterpillar as well as 

 the shell of the chrysalis. The head, pronotum, legs and anal segment liave 

 apparently been red ; head large, round, granulose, the granules higher and more 

 dispersed laterally ; thoracic and abdominal segments with many spikes, which .are 

 about 2 mm. long, regularly conical, smooth, pale, with dark tips, those on the 

 ))enultimate segment nearly entirely black, anal segment with three spines above 

 and two apjiroximate ones at tlie apex. Pupated July 4th ; imago, September Ttli. 



Pupa glossy ; head rounded ; sheath of tongue elongate-triangular, acute, 

 ending 4 mm. short of tij) of sheath of foreleg; mesonotum transversely rugose; 

 metauotum narrowest in middle, tlie anterior margin being somewhat concave ; 

 abdominal tergites densely and deejily punctured in front, the punctures becoiuing 

 smaller and scarcer behind, the sides smooth near the stigiuata of segments 1 to 4, 

 scarcely with any jiunctnres ; segments 5 to 7 transversely multicarinate at the 

 bases before the stigmata, the carinae low but sharp, the interspaces concave, 

 ]iunctures all round the stigmata ; eighth segment more smooth, not densely 

 jiunctured at the base above, not carinate in front of the stigmata ; jMuictures of 

 sternites not so dense and deep as above, the punctured area more restricted. 



Ilab. West Africa: Ashanti country to Cameroons, doubtless more widely 

 distributed. In several collections. 



In the Tring Museum 'i 6 i from : r.ipindi, ( 'nmeroous (Zenker) ; Akri Ugidi, 

 Lower Niger (Dr. Ansorge). 



LIII. METAMIMAS.— Typus : (ni^^tralasiue. 



Sphin.r, Donovan {non Linm*, 1V5H), Ins. X. Holl. t. 33 (1800). 



Acheron! in, Boisduval {non Laspeyres, W09), \'oi/. An/rolabe, Lrj). p. 181 (1832). 



Oieqiiomi Walker, Lixl Lr/j. Jn^. II M. viii. p. 250 (1856) (partim : type : Irinnf/nlinis). 



Bmehiiijhjim Boi'fduval {nnn id , 1829), Siiec. Gen. Up. lli-l. i. p. 10 (1875). 



Meiniiunin^ Butler, Tranx. ZooL Soc. Land. ix. p. 582 (1877) (parlim ; type : lui.-ilnihtsiiif). 



S ? . Tongue rather stout, but barely reaching end of forecoxa. Palpus slender, 

 not much larger in S than in ?, narrow in ventral view, being compressed, pro- 

 je<'ting, i)ointed. Antenna sleiuler, distal segnu'uts higher thiiu long, end-segment 



