6 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera 



should be inclined to admit that some natural affinity 

 may exist between them, but I doubt if it can be held to 

 break the chain connecting Tinaegeria with Eretmocera, 

 nor do I think it forms a true link in that connection. 



The hind wings of Snellenia, in which I have included 

 S. latipes, originally placed by Walker in his genus 

 Tinageria, are narrow, with the margins nearly parallel, 

 and the apex rounded. In (Edematopoda and Eretmocera 

 the hind wings are pointed, but the -neuration shows 

 gradual progression from the one to the other. In 

 Tincegeria, Snellenia, and Pseudaegeria the discal cell in 

 both fore and hind wings is somewhat square at the 

 outer extremity. In (Edematopoda it is square in the 

 fore wings and pointed in the hind wings, and in 

 Eretmocera it is pointed in both fore and hind wings. 

 The apical vein of the fore wings is forked throughout. 

 An additional link in the chain of connection appears in 

 the labial palpi ; these, in (Edematopoda, are very 

 slender and strongly recurved, in this respect nearly 

 approaching Tincegeria, whereas, in the form of the hind 

 wings, it appears to be more nearly allied to Eretmocera t 

 of which Zeller regarded it as a subgenus. 



It is unfortunate that so far little or nothing is known 

 of the larval habits of these insects. Stainton describes 

 the larva of (E. clerodendronella as feeding in webs on 

 shoots of Clerodendron. E. medinella is only known to 

 frequent the flowers of Umbellifera in Spain (teste Stdgr.) 

 and Senecio in Persia (teste Christoph.) ; and Mr. G. T. 

 Carter, who has watched the habits of three or four 

 species of Eretmocera flying in October at Bathurst, and 

 at Accra in West Africa, although he has at present failed 

 to discover their larvae, has supplied me with a sketch of 

 the plant which they habitually frequent, somewhat 

 resembling Clerodendron, and possibly referable to one 

 of the African species of Verbenacea. The flowers of 

 these shrubs, like the hind wings of many species of Eret- 

 mocera, are often scarlet or crimson, and they flower about 

 the time of year at which the specimens were taken. 



It is certainly worthy of a passing notice that the 

 geographical distribution of the genus Clerodendron 

 coincides somewhat remarkably with what is known of 

 the distribution of the genera mentioned here ; but it 

 would be obviously unsafe to found any argument in 

 favour of their affinity to each other on such slender 

 grounds. The parallel may be a mere coincidence. 



