( 672 ) 



(? ? . Tlie belt is situated njion tergites 4 .and 5 and is excised mesially in frout 

 as well as behind ; it is challvV white, assuming a bluish tint only where some of 

 the upper white scales are nibbed away. The underside of the abdomen is also 

 remarkably different from thnt of commasiac, the white colour gradually fading 

 away and the posterior half being more or less clayish, not black. The wings are 

 jialer slate-colour than in commamie. 



S. Sexual armature as in commasiae, but the harpe longer, more hook-shaped, 

 with the edge densely dentate (PI. L. f. X!3). End of tenth tergite sinuate (PI. XLV. 

 f 5). Penis-sheath see PL LVI. f. 4:1 



Hah. East Africa : Natal to P>ritish East Africa. 



In the Tring Museum 40-odd specimens from : Natal ; Nyassahuid ; Gcnuaii 

 and British East Africa. 



Subfamily Choerocampinae. — Typus : l'cr<je)<ri clju'iior. 



Sjihhij Lione, Sij.il. Xat. ed. x. p. 48'J (1758) (partim). 



iSj/hiinjidrs Leech, in Brewst., Edinb. Eiwijrl.ix.. p. 130 (1815) (piutim). 



Spliiiifjidae Samouelle, IC/il, Oimpend. p. L'43 (1819) (partim). 



Eiiiiiurjihae Hiibner, Fi'cs. Iiel. Schiii,. p. 133 (182L') (partim). 



Deikjihilar id., /.-•. p. 136 (1822) (partim). 



Chaeviiritiiipiiii Grote i^- Robinson, Prm'. Eiil. Sue. Pliilud, v. p. 1.53 (lsi!5) (partim : in'm, niid.). 



" Dflle'philides " Boisduval, Sper. Gen. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 158 (1875) (partim). 



Cliuerin'aiiipiniie Butler, Trans. Ziiol. Sue, Lmid. ix. p. 516. 544 (1877) (partim : type : elpe/ior). 



Deihphilidae Burmeiater, Drsri; Rep. Ardent, v. p. 336 (1878) (partim). 



Philumpelidae id., l.e, p. 345 (1878) (partim). 



(? ? . Pilifer consisting of an apical ]]art bearing short (or vestigial) bristles 

 and a proximal part bearing long ones (PI. LXIl. f. 'Z). Genal process short, 

 not much projecting. Inner surface of second segment of palpus more or less 

 naked (PI. LIX. f. 14 — 27). End-segment of antenna elongate, but not filiform, 

 with six or more very long bristles (PI. LX. f. 12). 



Larvae cylindrical, ta]ieriiig in front, or third and fourth segments enlarged ; 

 a dorso-lateral and an iniVastigmatical stripe, the ujiper often replaced by a series 

 of ocelli; the number of ocelli variable, often only one present (on fourth segment); 

 horn not always present in adult stage. 



Pupa with compressed or carinate tongue-case, which is mostly large, in one 

 instance {Wiiinrholaha) projecting free and resting with end against breast. 



Hah. CJosmopolitan. 



This is a very sharply circumscribed grouj) of genera. It is a (levelo]>nient 

 from a PholKS-Wkn ancestral form, deviating from all other Uphlnyidne in the 

 peculiar structure of the pilifer and iiali)us. The jiilifer does not vary much within 

 the subfamily, while the ])a]pus exhibits various modifications in structure which 

 are of generic valnc. We have here in respect to the palpus an instance of 

 progressive specialisation ; the modified jjaljius in which the branch now repre- 

 sented by a gronj) of genera originally ditt'ered from the allied forms became I'arth'^r 

 specialised in several directimis and to a various degree. 



The antennae are more or less clubbed, especially in the ? ? , with an abrupt 

 hook, or setiform with a slender gradual hook ; the end-segment, though somewhat 

 varying in length, is never very short, remaining always elongate-conical or 

 cylindrical ; it is shortest in Celerio. Its long bristles are either all terminal and 

 subterminal (PI. LX. f. 12), or tliere are some additional ones more pro.\inially 

 on the ventral side ; the segment has no or few scales dorsally. The antennae are 



