ANISODES. By L. B. Prout. 
A. lutearia Deivitz (5h, i) is yellower, nearly as in leonaria but without darkened costal margin and lutearlu. 
with the cell-mark of the forewing less narrow. Hindfemur of ^ fringed with coarse hair, as in poeciloptera. 
Dark cloudings not so heavy as in that species, never forming a definite connecting shade between median 
and postmedian. Ivory Coast to Nigeria, described from Lagos. 
A. dewitzi Prout (= lutearia $ Deivitz, nec (5 i). Similar in external cj structure to the two 
preceding, though all three show good distinctions in the genitalia. Browner or more fleshy (less yellow) 
than lutearia, paler than poeciloptera. Median shade generally weaker and more slender than in lutearia, its teeth 
at the 3rd radial and 1st median weaker; post median row of dots rather more incurved between the radials 
and especially posteriorly; distal clouding between the radials weak, that behind the 1st median, on the contrary, 
typically very strong, almost black. Frequent aberrations, however, lose this latter patch and present a more 
uniform appearance than any other of the group. — ab. transmuta Prout has the markings tinged with olive-green. 
Ivory Coast (loc. typ.) to Congo. 
A. paratropha Profit, described from a single $ from Ngiielo, Usambara, is a broad-winged species 
of about the size of poeciloptera (6 c) but with more nearly the colour and markings of deivitzi ab. transmuta, 
though of a deeper flesh-colour. Distinguished from all by the strongly dentate distal margin of the wings 
and paler underside. 
A. landanata Mah. is unknown to me and may possibly have been founded on a very weakly marked 
aberration, or defective specimen, of the species which I subsequently named dewitzi. “35 mm. Light reddish 
grey.” The only markings mentioned are the subterminal vein-dots (visible also beneath), a transverse shade 
parallel therewith (? the median) and some terminal blackish scales. Underside uniform fleshy grey. Founded 
on a single $ from Landana, Cabinda. 
A. lyciscaria Giieii. (= bitactata Walk.) is the only Anisodes yet known from the South African sub- 
region. Considerably smaller than the species of the preceding group, distal margin of hindwing scarcely at 
all crenulate. Weakl}^ marked, except that the name-typical form has dark cloudings at the hind angle of both 
wings and usually at mid-termen of fore wing. A hindfemur glabrous, the proximal spur of the tibia long. — 
ab. coecaria Guen. (= deremptaria Walk., sanguinata Warr., caecaria Oberth.) lacks the distal cloudings. 
Guenee’s types were from Namaqiialand, but the range includes Cape Colony, Natal, Kenya Colony and 
Madagascar. 
A. hirtifemur Prout (6d) represents lyciscaria in Southern Nigeria and is scarcely distinguishable 
except by the A hindleg, which has the femur fringed with coarse hair and the proximal spiir of the tibia shortened. 
The face, which in both species is red above and white below, shows different proportions, less than one-half 
being red in hirtifemur, about two-thirds in lyciscaria. The cell-dots of the hindwing are at times sharply out¬ 
lined with black, but this is inconstant. The name-ty])ical form corresponds to coecaria. — The form with dark 
distal cloudings, which occurs with it, is ab. bitactata Prout. The series of hirtifemur in the Tring Museum is 
from Warri (including the type) and Degaraa. 
A. diplosticta Prout (6 d). Bather larger and more variegated than the two preceding, the white ground¬ 
colour mottled, rather than uniformly suffused, with fleshy brownish, the dark irroration in part rather strong, 
at least along the costal edge of the forewing. Hindwiirg with terinen rather less smooth, its cell-ring with a 
characteristic admixtrrre of orange-red scaling. Both wings with the postmedian dots rather strong, berreath 
placed on a pinkish line which is not developed in hirtifemur-, terminal dots strong, placed at and midway 
between the veins, the latter series the larger, more blackish and slightly more jiroximal. Hair of cj hindfemur 
very coarse and red-mixed. Described from S. Cameroons (loc. typ.) and Gaboon, but occurs in a quite similar 
form at Bingerville, Ivory Coast; thus it is extremely unlikely that hirtifemur, despite similarity of structure, 
can be a race of it; the areole is generally smaller in diplosticta, but varies in both. 
A. metamorpha Prout (5 i) is again somewhat larger, generally darker and more reddish or purplish, 
but very variable. Antenna and vertex of head mixed with blackish. Midfemur of A fringed, hindfemur 
still more coarsely clothed than in diplosticta and with the hair continued oii the proximal part of the tibia. 
The typical form is very distinct in the large pale postmedian blotch on each wing, but this is obsolete in some 
aberrations. Madagascar. 
B. h i n d t i b i a w i t h 2 s p u r s {Anisodes Guen.). 
A. sublunata Swinh. (6d). The typical form is much like a less fleshy brown lyciscaria eA). coecaria, 
but consideratly larger and with still more weakly-marked \inderside, the cell-spots there wanting. Hindfemur 
of A with partly red, partly light buff hair-tufts. —ab. areolaria ah. nov. has the white cell-dot of the hindwing 
broadly encircled with black. — ab. argentispila ab. nov. has a large wFite. irregularly dark-pupilled cell-spot 
on the hindwing. Ivory Coast to Nigeria, the type from Gold Coast. 
dewitzi. 
transmuta 
paratropha. 
landanata. 
lyciscaria. 
coecaria. 
h irtifemur. 
bitactata. 
diplosticta. 
metamor¬ 
pha. 
sublunata. 
areolaria. 
argentis¬ 
pila. 
