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Ihtlj. ^\'l'^t Afrifii : Sii'ini Leoiii'. 



Two V V ill tla: Ti'iiiiT Mnst'iiiu : tbe \\\w {\\'S\\ri'^\) without lucalit}-. Nut feeii 

 ill other collectioub. 



LVI. PSEUDOCLANIS.— Typiis : postica. 



Baeiuiia Walkur, Lint Lqi. In^. B. M. viii. p. 237 (1851)) (parlim ; type : Jairaliun). 

 SMcriiithus, Lucas (iion Latreillc, 1802), A}in. Sui\ Ent. Fr. p. 60(5 (1857). 

 Zon'dia Walker, /.f. xxxi. p. 34 (1 64) (paitim). 



Amhuhjj; JIabille {iiuii Walker, 1856), Dull. Sac. Philom. (7). iii. p. 135 (1879). 

 Claim, Druce {iton Hubner, 1822), in Moloney, West A/ric. Forestr;/ p. 493 (1«87). 

 PsscuthdaiHii Kothschilii. X(i\'. Zihil. i. p. 00 (1804) (typo : postica). 

 P:«iidosiHcniilhiis, Karscli (uoii Butler, 1877), Fiit. .V./.-A/-. xxvi. p. 370) (1000). 



f??. Tougiie much shorter thau in C/a/iif. Joint of pali^us opeu as in 

 Fobjpt'jcktis. Abdomiual termites spiiiose all over. Tibiae spiuose ; two pairs of 

 bpurs to hiiidtibia ; pulvillus and parouychium present. No friction-patch on 

 clasper. Distal margins of wings entire, apex of Ibrewing produced ; hiudwiug 

 yellow or red, with large conspicuous black basal patch. 



Early stages not known. 



Larva presumably spinose and with roundeil head. 



Hab. Africa and 3Iadagascar. 



Differs from the species of Pohjpt'jch'u with falcate forewings in the weak 

 tongue. Some of the species dealt with muXcv Folijpti/cIo'S — for instance y^yyary/. 

 and allies — will jjcrhaps ultimately come into this genus ; but we leave them there 

 for the present, confining PstciloekiHis to the species with a large black basal patch 

 on the hiudwiug, which willenable also those lepidopterists who do not go closely 

 into the structure of the insects to locate correctly any new species. 



Key to the species : 



Hiudwiug red, without black postdiscal band . 18^'. P. karschi. 

 Hiudwiug yellow, with black postdiscal band . I83. P. posticn. 

 Hiudwiug pinkish grey, with black postdiscal 



baud ....... 184. P. grandidicri. 



18:J. Pseudoclanis karschi sjiec. uov. 



$ . A broad-winged insect. Apex of Ibrewing produced into a long blunt 

 book ; distal margins entire, that of forewiug convex between R- and SM-. Tibiae 

 spiuose. Head, thorax, and basal segments of abdomen olive-greeu above, rest of 

 abdomen and underside clay-colour, legs olive-biowu. 



Wings, upperside. Forewiug olive-green ; three darker green lines in basal 



half, running obliijuely from costal to inner margin, the tirst reaching inner margin 

 before middle, the second in middle, the second and third converging behind ; an 

 indistinct median line, convex from upper angle of cell to K^ then continued from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin, followed by another line between costal margin 

 and W ; a yellowish green discomarginal area bordered by the median line and 

 R^ ; apex of wiug of the same colour ; an oblique browu line from tip of SC' to 



R- bordering a brownisli submarginal space. Hiudwing rosy red ; a large black 



basi-discal patch behind the cell : abdominal fold dirty grey : marginal area yellowish 

 olive-ifreeu. 



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