( ofi.i ) 



Tliii-d stage (one siieciiucn) : yellow, reddish at sides ; slightly tapering in 

 front, but the granulose head rather large ; pale dots present, hairs vestigial : 

 horn red at base, tubercles black, tip narrowed to an almost smooth point ; a 

 vellow dorso-lateral line from mosonotiim to horn, annnlets obviously raisod within 

 this line. 



Fourth (last) stage (one sjiecimen) : liiio tlio pvevinns, but tapering in iVont, 

 horn comparatively sliorter. 



Pupa (of imirciinuUi^ pale clay cnlonr, punctures and grooves brown, labruni 

 lilaek, dorsal line brown ; tongue-case not carinnte, very little i)rojecting frontad ; 

 labrum terminal ; head rounded ; anterior femur not visilde ; abdomen punctured, 

 praespiracular area of fourth and fifth segments not carinate, but the anterior edges 

 of the punctures here more raised ; anal segments deeply impressed ventrally ; 

 cremaster somewhat flattened, dispersedly punctured at base, smootli, conical in 

 dorsal view (tip broken ; PI. LXIV. f. '^3). 



Hab. Aethiopian Region inclusive of Madagascar. 



Thirty-one species ; many more will be discovered when the heten cerous 

 Lejiidoptcra of Africa become better known. 



Allied to Ki'jihrlr, from which it is easily distinguished by the spurs being 

 without comb of spines. 



The species with entire wings and those with dentate or lobate distsd margin 

 are connected by intergradations ; the same applies to the forms with acute and 

 with obtuse or truncate apex of forewing. 



From this genus several others have originated by the loss or reduction of 

 organs and the acquisition of new structures. The reduction of the antenual end- 

 segment and the loss of the S friction-scales characterises Tcm/io/'/j/a/s : (Jdonfoitithi 

 agrees with this, but is further advanced in having lost the ventral lobes of the 

 ])aronychium and the patch of sensory hairs at the base of the palpus, and acquired 

 the terminal claw to the foretibia ; ><])lnngonae.iiiopsh is still more specialised in the 

 fan-like scaling of the first palpal segment, the more strongly clubbed antenna, 

 which is dentate or pectinate in J, and the acquisition of spines to the tibiae ; 

 and Microsjihiii.c represents the end of this series, having the distal segments of 

 the antenna unusually broad and short, and being without the proximal pair of 

 In'ndtibial spurs (the only instance among the Siihinjiiilai' scoia/wjJionir where 

 these spurs are absent). From '/'em/ionr pi/lax and allies (respectively tlieir 

 ancestor) branched off Giitrica in which the distortion of the costal margin of the 

 hindwing, indicated in Tflinnnva /JSCKdn/ii/las, is carried out in a similar way as in 

 the Ambniicine genus J>('(im(iptrr(i, and in which the antenual end-segment has 

 beciiine short and the til)iac acquired sjiines. Tiiese lines of devel(q)ment are quite 

 similar to those found in the subfamily Amliidiciiutr, restdting in weak forms. 

 Entirely different is the line 'J'cnuwra — A/cmiiorK — MafroglosMiii. Here we 

 observe the same kind of specialisation which we found in the higher American 

 Scxiiiiae, beginning witli forms characterised by slender antenna, W(Mik abdominal 

 Rjiines, rounded midcoxal nicrnm, truncate tail, etc., and ending with forms witii 

 ctrongly clubbed antenna, strongly angnlate mid- and hindcoxal nierum, 

 Ktrongly sjiined abdomen, comjiressed hindta,rsus with densely spinose outer 

 Hiirfiice, large fan(ail, etc. A side-i)ranch of this line is Aiitiiie/ilifli: — llii/nic- 

 iliilia (compare diagram, facing ]>. W.^), the latter genus sliovving in oTie species 

 n yellow abdominal side-jiatcii liouKilogous to the side-pati'hes observ<'d in most 

 MufrnylnHKinn, 



