TRAMINDA. By L. B. Brout. 
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with all spurs, in the oS of Section B strongly tufted. Forewing with apex acute, often minutely produced, 
termen variable, areole generally small (in rare abeirations of obversafa wanting), with all the subcostals stalked 
beyond it, or the 1st arising just before or at apex of areole. Hindwing variable in shape, cell less than (A 
wing-length, 1st radial and 1st median variably stalked (the latter in rufistrigata often se])aiate). A good link 
between the early genera aird Anisodes. 
Chiefly African, but with Indo-Australian stragglers. 
A. hi n d 1 e g si m p 1 e. 
T. rufistrigata Htnpsn. (6 c). The smallest species of the genus, rather long-winged and in many ways ntfi.slrl- 
anomalous. Apj^arently derived from the common base of fJhIoreryihra, Tra'UMula and Anisodes. With the 
first it agrees ajiproximately in shape and in the relatively long cells, and it may peihaps require to be trans¬ 
ferred; with Traminda in having the 1st median of the hindwing from or close to the end of the cell and in 
the ocellated cell-marks, with Anisodes in having the origin of the 5th subcostal of the foi'ewdng well proximal 
to that of the 1st but not in the palpus. Described from Aden but found on the Red Sea Coasts from Suakin 
to, British Somaliland. marcida Warr. is a ])ale, weakly marked form from the Sudan, described from marckla. 
Nakhela, S. E. of Berber. On an average somewhat larger. A single worn A from Asben seems to agree, 
perhaps also some poor specimens from Manda Island, East Africa. 
T. acuta is intermediate between rufistrigata (6 c) and falcata (6 c), perhaps a further development 
of the former, but with apex and termen of hindwing more roiinded than in l)oth. Larger than rufistrigata, 
more strongly marked, in particular with a well-developed median line, on the forewing oblique from costa 
near apex (in contact with the slender postmedian), on hindwing only developed posteriorly. altogether recalling 
a Lycauges. Hindwing with the 1st median less irregular than in rufistrigata, though still slightly variable. -- 
acuta Warr., from Natal, was the earliest named form, but so few specimens are yet known to me, and in such acuta. 
indifferent condition, that it is difficult to say wherein (if at all) it differs constantly from the East African 
form. Perhaps browner, at least beneath, with the oblique line brown rather than grey, and nevei- (so far as 
is yet known) particedarly thick. I have a rather large from Salisbury, S. Rhodesia, w'hich belongs here rather 
than to 'pallida. — pallida Warr. (6 b) is very variable, typically rather small and with the ground-colour pale, pallida. 
the oblique line the strongest marking. Some aberrations have the cell-mark strongly black-ringed, hence very 
conspicuoiis, others have the oblique line dark and strongly thickened, others combine these two characters. 
— ab. anandarla Swinh. is rather larger, brown-tinged, the oblicpie line rather slender, the postmedian almost anandaria. 
equally strong; scarcely worthy of a name. — pallida is common in Kenya and reaches northward and south¬ 
ward into the adjacent territories. 
T. falcata Warr. (6 c) is of a warmer brown, the forewing with apex more falcate, the hindwdng with falcata. 
distal maigin distinctly bent or weakly angled at the 3rd ladial. The oblique line in the type is weak, but in 
some aberrations it becomes strong, recalling Galothysanis. Unelerside strongly strigulated. Natal (loc. typ.) 
and Portuguese East Africa. 
T. drepanodes Front (5g). Apex distinctly falcate, angle of hindwing weak. Very distinct from the drepanodcs. 
species which follow (unless from atroviridaria) in the strong and highly oblique line, which is angled close to 
costa. Cell-mark of forewing longer than in neptunaria (6 c). Cameroons, Congo and Unyoro. 
T. vividaria Walk. {--- ledereri Wllgrn., nigripuncta Warr.) (6 c). Variable in colouring, but cannot vivklaria. 
well be conBised with any other species. The small black cell-dot of the forewing is pretty constant, and both 
this and the shortened cell of the hindwing (bringing the white cell-dot almost as near to the base as to the 
postmedian line) separate it readily from weakly marked forms of ocellata, its nearest ally. The type form is 
the green one. — ab. variegata Swinh. is variegated, partly green, partly pink. — The plain pink forms are variegaia. 
called, by analogy with those of the follovdng species, ab. rufa Front. The species is extremely Avidely distributed, mfa. 
Senegambia to Nigeria, Unyoro, S. Sudan, British East Africa to Natal, Madagascar. Walker’s and Wallex- 
GREx’s types were from Caffraria, IVarrex’s from Liberia. 
T. ocellata Warr. (6 c). Generally recognizable at a glance lyy the slightly angular, sharply marked ocellata. 
ocellus of the hindwing; only in rare aberrations is this subobsolete, bringing about a superficial resemblance 
to vividaria (6c) (see above). — ab. rufa Warr. is the reddish form. Range less wide than that of vividaria-, rufa. 
only known to me from Lbiyoro and from South Rhodesia to the Cape. 
T. atroviridaria Mab. (described as Thalera). I have formerly assiimed this to be a prior name for airoviri- 
ccellata, but on re-reading the description I find that no size-indication is given, which adds another element daria. 
of uncertainty to those offered by the assumed locality (Madagascar) and two details in the description. Perhaps 
a race, not yet rediscovered, with both the red cell-rings equally developed and rounded; but the oblique line 
of the forewing is said to aiise “near the apex”. 
