EDTERPIODES TRIOCNEMIS. 



395 



at apex with oblique black bar across apex ; subterminal line white 

 on the grey area with. some black before it on costa, then defined hj 

 waved grey marks on its inner side, almost obsolete between veins 

 6 and 4 and with a grey spot beyond it above tornus ; a terminal 

 series of black stria?. Hind wing glossy white with slight discoidal 

 spot, curved slightly waved postmedial line, and terminal series of 

 black_ striae ; the underside with small black-brown discoidal spot, 

 the curved postmedial line represented by some black scales 

 in parts. 



2 . Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 d ; Transvaal, Piet 

 Retief (Crawshay), 2 tf, 3 $, White R. (Cooke), 1 J; Zulelanb, 

 Lr. Tugela R. (Reynolds), 1 J; C. Colony, Table Mt., 1 S • Exp. 

 30-32 millim. 



Genus TRIOCNEMIS. 

 Triocnemis, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 77 (1881) 



Type. 

 saporis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the third short ; 

 frons with large rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 round; antennas of male almost simple ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with large tufted crest ; 

 tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibias very short, forming a large 

 semilunar plate at extremity with large and small claws on inner side ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the apex 

 rounded, tne termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4858. Triocnemis saporis. 



Triocnemis saporis, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 77 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct, 

 Am. p. 273. 



N. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi with brown mixed ; antennas 

 tinged with brown ; slight brown streaks on upper edge of patagia 

 towards extremity ; tibiae and tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen 



Fig. 186. — Triocnemis saporis, c?. j. 



white. Fore wing white, the medial area brown tinged with grey 

 and slightly irrorated with white ; subbasal line black, from costa 

 to submedian ibid ; antemedial line black, with some metallic scales 

 on it, oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled out- 

 wards, then incurved; claviform small, defined by black and 



