250 Dr. W. J. Holland on African Lepidoptera. 



diflfers in that the blue space upon the secondaries is divided 

 by a black ray running along the lower edge of the cell and 

 along the third median nervule, gradually widening outwardly 

 and coalescing with the broad black marginal border. This 

 is the only point of distinction between it and E. rezia^ S. & K., 

 except that the primaries are more acute. 



In the same finely illustrated work, in connexion with the 

 twenty-second plate of Afi-ican LycaBnidse I discover that the 

 authors have made a change in a name which is not justified. 

 They describe Lyccenesthes lychnoptera (sic), and figure it on 

 the plate, concluding that my name lychnaptes (' Psyche,' 

 vol. vi. p. 51) is a misprint. In this they are in error. M.j 

 name lyclinaptes * (not lychnoptes, as misprinted in the 

 ' Hhopalocera Exotica ') must stand as it was published in 

 ' Psyche.' The synonymy is therefore as follows : — 



Epitola lychnaptes, Holl. 



Epitola lychnaptes, Holl. Psyche, vol. vi. p. 51 (1891). 

 Epitola lychnoptera (err.), S. & K., Rhop. Exot. part xxv. pi. xxii. 

 Afr. Lye. figs. 1, L> (1893). 



Under the name Rhadinopasa Udei Dr. Karsch described, 

 in the ' Entomologische Nachrichten,' 1891, p. 15, a Smerin- 

 thine inoth which is identical with Basiana Hornimanni^ 

 Druce, as Karsch himself admits in a later article published 

 in the same journal. It is worthy of notice, however, that 

 while the specific name given by Druce must stand, the 

 insect is dimorphic, and I infer from what I can make out of 

 Dr. Karsch's description that he had the dimorphic form 

 before him. I have a large series of the insect reared ex larva. 

 ^ome of the caterpillars were reddish and produced typical 

 Hornimanni. which is a rosy moth ; others of the larvse were 

 dark green and produced a duller-coloured moth. I propose 

 to retain Karsch's name for this form, and suggest the 

 following synonymy : — 



Rhadinopasa Hornimanni, Druce. 



Basiana Hornimanni, Druce, Ent. Month. Mag. xvi. 1880, p. 268. 

 Basiana ? Hornimanni, Holl. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvi. 1889, p. 66, 



pi. iii. figs. 5, 6. 

 Var. dimorph. Rhadinopasa Udei, Karsch, Eutom. Nachr. xvii. 1891, 



p. ]5, Taf. i. fig. 4. 



In the fourth quarterly issue of the * Berliner entomolo- 



* AvxvdnTT]s = a, lamp-lighter. 



