C 290 ) 

 -40. Lophostethus demolini. 



•■ SmWnthe Duraolin" Latreille, in Cuv., lUfiw Aiiim. iii. t. 2(1. f. I (1S30) (Srni'giil). 



Sphiiij- ilemnllnl Angas, I.e. t. M. f. 11 (1840) (Natal). 



Lnjiliostflhus (hmnJhii, Butler, Tninx. Zool. Sue. Lniiil. ix. p. .')><5 (1S77). 



Tlie si}ei'ies was first figured by Latreille, I.e., but ouly under a French 

 desi.u-nation. All the names on that i)late are French, not Latin. These designations 

 are : Castnie Hiibner, Aegocere Boisduval, Coronis d'Urville. As a matter of 

 course, these names have no standing. To o)tr knowledge Angas was the first to 

 give the insect a scientific name. Boisduval says that lie hiiuselt liad figured the 

 species as a S//n'rinf/>us in Latreille, Families NatiireUes, but we cann<it find the 

 jilate there ; jjerhaps he meant the Krgiie Animal cited above. 



Ildh. Aethiojiian Region except the Malagassic Snbregion. 



Two subspecies : 



a. L. (Icmoliiii rtirtcri. 

 Latreille, /.■•. 

 Sweniilliiis (leiiiulhii, Walker, Lis' Lrp. Ilel. /I. .1/. viii. p. 2.01). n. 12 ( IS.'ii;) (partiui ; syii.) ; Dewitz, 



MittJi. Miuich. E,il. Vei: iii. p. 27 (187!)) (Chinchoxo). 

 Eudfti tlemuliiii, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 1.5. n. 1 (187.')) (Galam : larva alia spec). 

 LopJioslilhiis drinnlhii, Butler, l.r. (partim). 

 Lu/ilwxlelhus (!iinivliii;,Kirhy, Cal. LijK Hrt. i. p. 7(i5. n. 1 (18'.I2) (partim); Druce, in Jloloney, 



West Afr. Forextn/ p. 4!i:). n. 10 (1887). 

 LopliosMliiis aii-teri Rothschild, Nov. Zo<ii,. i. p. '.17 (1894) (Lagos). 



c??. The characters by which (-((vlrri was said to be distiuguished from the 

 Easfci-n ih'inoliiii ])rove on receijit of more materia! to be more or less variable, so 

 that no absolute reliance can be i)laced njjon them. Tiie West African individuals 

 are darker in ground-colour than the Eastern ones ; the black, triangular, sub- 

 marginal jiatch R- — M' of the upperside of the forewing is shorter, the two small 

 snbmarginal patches M'— (fciMi) are absent or faint, the autemedian and the discal 

 lines are on the whole farther apart at (SM') and the black jwstmedian costal patch 

 of the underside is smaller, not extending beyond R'. Tenth tergite broader than 

 in demolini demolini. 



Hab. West Africa : Senegal to the Congo. 



In the Tring Museum 3 (?<?, 1 ? from Sierra Leone (Mitford ; Stevens, in 

 August) ; Lagos ; Congo. 



A. /,. ilriHoliiii tlrnmlini. 

 Sphhhr (hmittini Angas, l.i:. 



Snierhithus diimolhii, Walker, I.e. (Natal ; syn. excl.). 

 Kiirica (liiiiioliiii, Boisduval, l.r. (partim ; Natal). 

 Luplwslelhiis ilrmiilhii, Butler, l.r. (partim, syn. cxcl). 



Lnj,hu.4rlliiiH iliiiiioliiil. Kirby, l.r. (partim) : Meld., in Weism., Sliul. Theory Dexeeiit ii. p. 527 (1882) 

 (descr. of larva) ; Fawc, Tnoi.i. Zuol. Sm: Loml. xv. p. 307. n. 9. t. 48. f. 7. 8 (.l.,/i.) (1901). 



c??. The tenth tergite of the t? varies somewhat individually. It is sinuate 

 with the lobes pointed in a specimen from Uganda in the Tring Museum (Kamnanura, 

 Bulamwezi) ; this individual represents jiossibly a, tliird geographical race, but it is 

 too much rubbed to allow description ; tlie wings have apparently been nearly as 

 dark as in rartf.ri. 



The early stages of the caterpillar should be studied. We assume that tlie 

 young larva has a triangular head. 



