1910.] FROM TROPICAL AVEST AFRICA. 361 



yellowish below. Legs black with white spots. Palpi black, 

 with white hairs. 



Expanse ly 7 ^ inch. 



Hob. Upper Kasai district, Congo Free State [P. Landbeck). 



Type, Mus. Druce. 



Not very nearly allied to any other species of the genus. 



Larinopoda spuma, sp. n. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 12, J •) 



Male. Upper side : fore wing cream-colour, darker than 

 L. lirccaa Hew.*, with the costa very narrowly and the apex and 

 outer margins rather broadly and unevenly blackish brown ; a 

 slight indication of a blackish-brown tooth on the costa opposite 

 the end of the cell. Hincl wing cream, with the black spots of 

 the under side showing through ; outer margin rather broadly 

 blackish brown, inwardly dentate. Cilia of both wings creamy. 

 Under side cream-colour ; fore wing with the apex and outer 

 margin blackish brown as on upper side, the costa, from the base 

 to the clearly defined black tooth on the costa, dusted with 

 blackish brown. Hind wing with outer margin brown as on 

 upper side, inwardly bordered with a submarginal row of darker 

 brown large spots. A small black spot near the centre of cell 1 . 

 Thorax fuscous above. Abdomen cream above and below. Legs 

 yellow dusted with black scales. Palpi yellow tipped with black. 



Female. Differs from the male by the dark margins of both 

 wings being narrower and paler on both surfaces. 



Expanse, male 1 t 7 q-, female 14 inch. 



Hah. Bitje, Ja river, Cameroons, 2000 ft., dry and wet seasons 

 (G. L. Bates). 



Types, Mus. Druce. 



Described from eight specimens. Amongst the wet season 

 examples is a female in which the dark outer margin of the hind 

 wing on both surfaces is reduced to an anteciliary line, and on 

 the under side the submarginal row of spots is almost obsolete as 

 also is the dark apex to the fore wing. May prove to be a form 

 of L. lirccea. 



Larinopoda emilia Suffert. 



Larinopoda emilia Suffert, 'Iris,' xvii. p. 48 (1904); H. H. 

 Druce, 111. Afr. Lye. pi. i. figs. 1, 1 a (1910). 



Hob. Bitje, Ja river, Cameroons, 2000 ft., wet and dry seasons 

 (G. L. Bates) ; Upper Kasai district, Congo Free State (P. Landbeck). 



We have a series of eighteen specimens from the above localities 

 which agree exactly with an excellent photograph of the type of 

 L. emilia in the Berlin Museum. 



Possibly this is the same as L. hermansi Auriv. f , which I 

 know only from the description, and if so, the latter name has 

 priority. 



Ab. punctata, § . Differs from the typical form on the under 



* Liptena lirccea Hew., Exot. Butt. iii. Pent. & Lipt. pi. 2. figs. 10, 11 (1866). 

 t Larinopoda hermansi Auriv. Ofvers. Vct.-Akad. Forh. liii. p. 435 (1896). 



