( 744 ) 



c? ?. Our two St. Tliome sjiecimens are rather small and have the black discal 

 baud of the hindwing narrow. Specimens with ferruginous underside of body and 

 hindwing occur in West and East Africa. 



Hub. Continental Africa and islands near the coast. 



In the Tring Museum 15 cJc?, 8 ? ? from : St. Thome, xii. i. (Mooquerys) ; 

 Bopoto and Yakusu, viii., Congo (K. Smith) ; Natal ; Kilwa, Germ. E. Afr., v. 

 (Reimer); Mombasa, v. (Dr. Ansorge) ; Ran, Nandi, ii. (Ansorge) ; Masindi, 

 Uganda, xii. (Ansorge). 



OLX. BASIOTHIA.-Typus : wcdrn. 



Sj)l)i)ix, Fabricius (imn Linne, 1768), S/ier. /«.«. ii. p. 14.? (1781). 



Deilephilii, Boisduval (tion Laspeyres, 180i)), Fuiiiie M'uthi;/, Boitrb. p. 7.3 (18H3). 



Chiieromiiijiii, id. (iioii Duponchel, 183.^), in Deleg., Vnij. Afr. Aiisfr. p. 595 (1847). 



Basiothid Walker, Lixl Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 124 (1850) (tjpe : khinis = ineJeii). 



Cfiaerorainjta, Menetrit^s, Eitnm. Corp. Anim, Miii^. Pflr., Lcp. p. 91 (1857). 



Bimathea (!), Butler, Trans. Zuul, Soc Loml. ix. p. 552 (1877). 



GimlJioxli/iisis, id. {lion Wallengren, 1858), Ann. Jfnt/. X. H. (5). iv. p. 23.3 (1879). 



Antinephelr, Kirby {mm Holland, 1889), Cat. Lep. IIcl. i. p. 043 (1892). 



(J ¥ . Inner surface of palpus : scaling at apex of first segment dense and 

 regular; second segment without apical tuft. On the outer side the first segment 

 is .strongly convex and bears a transverse crest of scales, resembling the crest found 

 in Spliiii</onaepiopsis, but being much smaller, or this crest represented by a fringe 

 along eye. Eye very strongly lashed. Antenna strongly eliiblied in both sexes. 

 Abdomen with weak and numerous apical sjjines. 



Larva strongly tapering in front ; with seven ocelli. — Food-plant : SjMVtmicpci'. 



-Pnpa : tongue-case compressed, but not very prominent. 



JlaO. Aethiopian Region. 



The four species are in shaj)e rather similar to some Tcmnnra. 



Key to the species : 



u. Hind orange 004. B. mcdca. 



Hind brown ....... 095. B. laticornis. 



Ilind red ; a white double line on abdomen . 000. B. cluu-is. 



Kindred; a simple line on abdomen . . 007. B. schcnki. 



004. Basiothia medea. 



Sphinx mfilfd Fabriciu.s, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 143. n. 19 (1781) (Afr. aeqiiin.) ; id., Miml. Ins. ii. p. 94. 



n. 22 (1787) ; Gmel., Si/«'- Nal. i. p. 5. p. 2370. n. 04 (1790) ; Fabr., i'///. Si/si. iii. 1. p. :!03. n. 23 



(1793). 

 Sjihin.r hlririis Drury, Illustr. F.r. Ins. iii. p. 2. t. 2. f. 2 & Index (1782) (Africa). 

 Sphhix rliii Fabricius, /.'■. iii. 1. p. 377. n. 05 (1793) (Guinea); Auriv., AV. Tiilslr. xviii. p. 153. 



n. 85 (1897) (= hiriens). 

 S/ihhix niiolhrina Martyn, Psi/rhe t. 23. f. 59. 60 (1797). 

 Dfilephila iilriens, Boisduval, Faune Mud. Biairh. p. 73. n. 4. t. 10. f. 5 (1833) (Bourbon ; Mauritius ; 



Madag. ; Senegal ; Guinea ; = rlin). 

 Chiieroniiiiiiii idriariis (!), id., in Deleg,, Vnij. Afr. Anslr. p. 595. n, 110 (1847) (Natal) ; Gutfn., 



in Mail!., //<■ lihinhm, App. p, 21 (1862) ; id,, in Vins., Vi»j. Madag. p. 29 (1805) ; Vins., Papitl. 



Boiirhon p. 13 (1891). 

 Biiskithea iilrirns (!), Walker, Ll-st Lrji. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 125. n. 1 (1850) (Nal.il ; S. Leone); 



Miischl., Verh. Zool. B„l. Ges. Wien xxxiii. p. 288. n. 83 (1884) (Caffraria). 

 Sph'nix ? medea. Walker, I.e. viii. p. 263 (1856). 



