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Subgenus Pseudatteria Walsingham, new status 



Synonymy. — As listed above for the genus. 



Type species.^ — ■Pseudatteria potamites Walsingham, 1913; by 

 monotypy and original designation. 



Male.^ — ^Uncus elongate, somewhat scaphoid, at least in apical 

 portion, as a rule with an apical thorn du-ected ventrad, and generally 

 with a soft papilla ventrad to base of this thorn. Vesica with a large 

 cornutus, and generally with a cuneus composed of minute thorns. 



Female. — Antrum well defined, subcylindrical, narrower than sinus 

 vaginalis and adjacent portion of corpus bursae; lateral coUiculi 

 generally present. Cervix bursae indicated by a stronger sclerotiza- 

 tion and striation. 



Pseudatteria (Pseudatteria) dognini, new species 



Plate 1 



Antenna brownish black with white annulation. Labial palpus 

 black, at base and inner surface white scaled. Head yellowish white 

 with a black median line dilated into a round, preoccipital spot. 

 Thorax [damaged; probably black, as some scales preserved in pos- 

 terior portion] yellowish white laterally; tegula black with external 

 fringes yellowish white. Abdomen orange. Forewing orange, in 

 subcostal and apicoterminal areas yellowish white; markings bluish 

 black, arranged as follows: ten costal streaks, some of them penetrating 

 into orange area; penultmiate of these streaks (ninth, counting from 

 wing base) much longer than others and spotlike dilated at tip; last 

 (tenth) of costal streaks U-shaped, resting with its branches on costa 

 before wing apex; two sunilarly shaped streaks, one on wing apex, 

 another on termen above tornus, and a much smaller, rotundate 

 terminal spot between them; a rather large, semirotundate spot on 

 tornus; an 8-shaped spot oblique basad, located on border of white and 

 orange areas, in front of interspace between tornal spot and mentioned 

 U-shaped terminal streak above it; cilia bluish black in front of 

 terminal streaks and spots, and white in interspaces. Length of fore- 

 wing 14-15 mm. Hindwing orange with black, rotundate marginal 

 spots: a large spot on wing apex, connected by a blackish shadow with 

 two spots, one of them a smaller spot on end of costa, another spot 

 slightly smaller than latter spot and located close to lower portion of 

 apical spot, basad of it; thi'ee rather large spots on termen, first of them 

 close to apical spot; a small dot closely following last of terminal spots, 

 and two much smaller, widely remote dots on dorsum; in male a little, 

 additional dot below and slightly basad of lower spots accompanying 

 apical spot; cilia black in front of spots, and orange or whitish in 

 interspaces. 



