HIPPOTION. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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H. pentagramiraa Hmps. is said to be allied to clitoris. Body greyish-brown, abdomen beneath white. 
Forewing pale greyish-brown, costal margin reddish-brown, traces of 2 red-brown antemedian lines, distaily 
acute-angular; 5 very oblique curved discal lines, at the costal margin incurved, an oblique streak from the 
apex; marginal area thinly dusted with blackish. Hindwing blackish-brown, submarginal area reddish, from 
vein 5 to the fold with thin dark vein-dots. Marginal area grey, dusted with blackish. Expanse: 46—58 mm. 
Abyssinia, Somaliland. 
H. celerio L. (= tisiphone L., inquilinus Harr., phoenix Oken, ocys Hbn.) (Cf. Vol. II, p. 258, pi. 42 b). 
A smaller species, abdomen without dark lateral spots, hindwing without a black subbasal spot. Distributed 
nearly over the whole ,,01d World“, also very common in Africa and Madagascar, but nowhere the formation 
of races is noticed. 
H. aporodes R. & J. is similar to celerio. Forewing darker brownish-black, the light band less silvery 
and with 2 brown lines, the olive stripe in the direction of the margin is sharply separated into two lines (on 
both sides of the black line), the outer line being very thin. The discal band of the hindwing is narrow and 
brighter red. Gold Coast. 
H. horns Roeb. is likewise similar to celerio , in the forewing the median band is yellowish, not silvery, 
before it there is a narrow yellowish-browm band. Median band not extending so far to the base of the wing 
as in celerio. Hindwing darker red, discal band narrower. Abdomen without a distinct light dorsal line. 
Cameroon. (It may be identical with aporodes l). 
H. isis R. & J. Allied to the preceding ones, abdomen without black lateral spots, forewing without 
the pale oblique band. Hindwing as in celerio. Expanse: 58 mm. Only 1 specimen known, without a statement 
of the habitat, but surely an African species. 
H. eson Cr. (= gracilis Btlr.) (67 a). Forewing loam-coloured brown, with 9 dark lines, all of which 
are rather straight, the basal 6 being parallel and oblique. Hindwing red, marginal area, costal margin and a 
round basal spot blackish. In the whole region everywhere common. 
H. aurora R. & J. Fore wing as in eson, but greyer, lines 1 and 2 forming a band as far as the base 
of the wing, line 6 beginning from vein 5 very thin. Hindwing almost as in osiris, but darker red, the black discal 
area broader, its posterior portion not isolated. The black postdiscal band is not so sharply defined. Expanse: 
76 mm. Madagascar. — In the smaller gloriosana R. & J . the margin is shorter and more sharply convexly 
angled, the submarginal line much stronger than on the forew r ing. Isle of Gloriosa near Madagascar. — In 
delicata R. & J. the forewing is paler than in the preceding two races, the slanting double line reaching the 
inner margin 4 mm distant from the base is less distinct, whereas the shortened oblique apical line is very 
distinct. The black colouring in the hindwing is more reduced. Farquhar I. near Madagascar. 
H. balsaminae Wkr. (67 a). Forewing yellowish loam-coloured, with 8 oblique straight lines, only the 
two proximal ones being more curved and darker brown. Stigma black. Hindwing dark brown, discal area 
pale ochreous, marginal area somewhat olive brown. Larva green with a brown median line above, a black 
ocellus on the 4th and a red one on the 5th segment, both in white rings; it lives on Jussieua. Common in 
the whole region. 
H. iambertoni Clark. Body above olive green, abdomen beneath loam-coloured, dusted with brown, 
laterally more light red. Fore wing light olive green, markings dark olive green. A strong line from the apex 
as in batschi (67 a), but towards the base of it 3 more lighter parallel lines which die away towards the costal 
margin. From the strong line towards the margin a fifth line, the space between lines 4 and 5 filled with dark. 
Farther towards the margin a 6th and a feeble 7th line. Stigma and dark clouds distaily to it as in batschi. 
Hindwing black with a narrow, sometimes interrupted light pink postmedian band which widens towards the 
anal margin. Expanse: 54 mm. Madagascar. 
H. saclavonim Bsdv. (67 a). Similar to batschi, but the body and forewing above of a loamy yellowish 
Isabel colour, abdomen laterally yellow, except at the base. Under surface rather white. Forewing with several 
distinct lines. Hindwing blackish-brown, at the tornus Isabel-coloured. Madagascar. 
H. batschi Kejerst. ( — humilis Btlr.) (67 a). Body and forewing above reddish brown, body beneath 
pinkish-brown, abdomen without yellow lateral spots, in the forewing but one line is really distinct, not quite 
so oblique as in saclavorum, tornal spot of hindwing and its fringe pinkish brown. Madagascar. 
H. butleri Saalm. (67 a) is said to differ from batschi in the presence of an irregular, proximally blurred 
white band of the forewing extending from the apex to the inner margin near the tornus. Madagascar. 
H. exclamationis Fawc. Forewing similar as in the following species, more separately dusted with 
blackish, with a distinct and strong discal line, more curved than in roseipennis. Discal spot blacker. Hindwing 
as in roseipennis. British East Africa. 
H. roseipennis Btlr. (67 b). Forewing olive green, with 2 stronger and several feebler not very oblique 
transverse lines, with a large blackish spot at the cross-vein. Hindwing as in balsaminae. East Africa. 
H. diyllus Fawc. (67 b). In the habitus similar to Basiothia medea F., but the wings are light ochreous, 
hindwing more pinkish, with a darker marginal band. Kedai, East Africa. 
penta- 
gramma. 
celerio. 
aporodes. 
horus. 
isis. 
eson. 
aurora. 
gloriosana. 
dclicaia. 
balsaminae. 
lamberioni. 
saclavorum. 
batschi. 
butleri. 
exclama¬ 
tionis. 
roseipennis. 
diyllus. 
