TIPULAMIMA. By Dr. Gaede. 
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centre of the cross-vein, 7 + 8 halfway stalked, 10 + 11 at the base distantly separated, then nearing each 
other. In the hindwing veins 3 + 4 on a short stalk, 7 absent. Type: flavifrons Holl. 
E. grandidieri Le Cerf (77 a). Palpi thin, yellow. Body and margins of wings bronze black, the sides grandidieri. 
at the anal tuft and the legs yellow except few black places. Costal margin of forewing inside on 4 / 5 of its 
length with a red line. Cross-vein and the narrow inner margin yellow. On the hindwing the veins 2—5 with 
yellow scales except at the end, the cross-vein fine. Margin narrow, black. Tarsi of hindlegs somewhat hairy. 
d 1 26 mm. Madagascar. 
T. pyrosoma Hmps. Palpi and antennal tips orange. Tegulae, patagia and the last segments on the pyrosoma. 
abdomen edged with red, the whole under surface red. Hind tarsi bluish-black, otherwise the legs almost quite 
red. On the forewing the narrow margins and veins are black, only at the base somewhat red. Hindwing also 
narrowly black. Fringes of both wings coppery brown. Beneath both wings at the costal margin orange beyond 
the middle. $ 28 mm. East Africa. 
T. flammipes Hmps. $ bluish-black. Frons somewhat white. Palpi, antennae above, margin of tegulae flammipes. 
and patagia orange-red. Prothorax, abdomen beneath, and legs almost quite orange-red. On the forewing 
the margins and the cross-vein are bluish-black, the exterior hyaline area outside bordered undulately. Hindwing 
narrowly margined with black, inner margin with yellow hairs. $ with white antennal tips, thorax red with a 
black spot. Abdomen at the base red with a black median streak and red segmental margins. Abdomen beneath 
with a black ring-band. Both wings at the inner margin with a red base. On the forewing the distal margin 
broad with yellow scales. <$ 30, $ 24 mm. Uganda. 
T. opalimargo Le Cerf (77 a). Bluish-black. Antennal tips and palpi brick-red. Thorax with a similar opalimargo. 
reflection. The 3 first abdominal rings beneath yellowish-white. Legs black and brick-red. Both wings at the 
base with brick-red scales. Costal margin and cross-vein black, the distal hyaline area luniform. Hindwing 
narrow black, cross-vein only anteriorly black. $ 44 mm. Madagascar. 
T. flavifrons Holl. (77 a). Head and anterior half of thorax orange, otherwise bluish-black. Forewing flavifrons. 
only with a feeble hyaline streak at the base. On the hindwing the interior half is hyaline, behind it another 
hyaline streak. Forelegs altogether and middle legs partly orange. <$ 28 mm. West Africa. 
T. haugi Le Cerf (77 a). $ similar to flavifrons, thorax and legs the same, all the rest bluish-black, haugi. 
Abdomen beneath whitish ochreous except at the end. Forewing as far as the cross-vein glossy blue excepting 
the margins. Hindwing with a smaller basal area, behind it also glossy blue. only on the forelegs and palpi 
orange, otherwise bluish-black. The two first abdominal segments lighter. On the forewing the costal margin 
is broad black as far as the very broad cross-vein. Distal hyaline area round. Hindwing with a relatively broad 
margin, in the submedian fold with points inwards, the cross-vein triangular. 30—35 mm. Ogowe. 
T. nigriceps Hmps. Bluish-black. Thorax mixed with orange. Chest, front and middle tibiae orange, nigriceps. 
abdomen at the base with 3 yellow spots. Forewing as in haugi-Q. Hindwing besides with 2 hyaline streaks 
above veins 4 and 5 and a small spot above the base of vein 2. Veins and cross-vein purely black. As far as 
vein 3 violettish-black, then bluish-black. $ 26 mm. Sierra Leone. 
T. festiva Holl. (77 a). Violettish-black. Head at the base of the antennae and thorax orange, the fesliva. 
latter with a blackish-brown central spot. Palpi below white like the abdominal margins on the 4th, 6th and 
7th segments. Anal tuft in the middle below and hair of legs white. Forewing with narrow dark margins and 
similar cross-vein. Hindwing very narrowly margined. 18 mm. Ogowe. 
T. sophax Drc. Thorax greenish-black, abdomen of $ orange, on the 4th segment dark green, in the sophax. 
$ greenish-black. Forewing at the base hyaline reddish. Costal margin, cross vein and the other veins black. 
Hind wing with fine black veins. 18 mm. Uganda, East Africa, Rhodesia 
T. sexualis Hmps. body black. A streak on the tegulae and 3 segmental margins on the abdomen, sexualis. 
as well as the palpi in front yellow. Legs with yellow and white spots. Forewing at the margin and veins 
blackish-brown. At the base and outside at the cross-vein yellow scales. Distal margin at the apex broad 
black, also with yellow scales. Hindwing narrowly margined with blackish-brown like the anterior portion of 
the cross-vein. 2 palpi, antennae beneath and the margin of patagia fiery red. Thorax posteriorly with a red 
streak. Abdomen with 2 red, 1 yellow and 2 more red bands. Anal tuft at the end and legs with fiery red 
spots. Forewing at the base, outside at the cross-vein and in the marginal area fiery red. 22—26 mm. Niger 
District. - waterloti Le Cerf. $ (77 b) smaller. The red places on the palpi, patagia, and abdomen are yellow waterloti. 
instead of red. Only the cross-vein and the distal margin with red scales. $ 21 mm. Dahomey. 
T. malimba Holl. Blackish-brown. Frons, palpi, and antennae below orange. A streak on the patagia malimba. 
and the 2nd and 4th abdominal segments above, as well as the legs orange, Hyaline areas at the costal margin 
narrow, the dark margins with yellow radial streaks. Hindwing narrowly margined with dark brown. 
$ 20 mm. Ogowe. 
