r 221 ) 



L'nder.iic/e. Forcwins : Imsal half rosy red, cxcopt costal and inner margins, 



rest of wing yellowish olive-green : a broad glossy discal band from costal margin 

 to beyond R-, a large triangular snbmarginal space of the same colour proximally 



bordered by an oblique blackish line. Hindwing shaded with l)afi'; a large rosy 



red patch lietween cell and abdominal margin, three yellowish green lines across 

 the disc : the lirst straight. ."> mm. from cell at R\ the second also straight, the 

 tliird dentate behind, tiie lines nearly equidistant. 



Vaginal jilatc- (partly visilile in f'/pr) with a high, almost rectangulnr, ridge ; 

 tlie corners sjiarp, sumewhat j>rodnced, distal edge trnncfite-sinuate. Eighth tergite 

 truncate, angles very strongly roundeil. 



Length of forewing : ? , 68 mm. 



S and early stages not known. 



I/ii/i. Victoria, Cameroons, 1 9 in rlie Berlin Museum. 



Named in honour of Professor Karscli. 



l>;:i Pseudoclanis postica. 



*Bti.<i(inri pnstirn Walker, Z,/.-/ Leji. Ins. B. }[. viii. p. 2?.7. n. ?, (1H50) (Xatal ;— Mus, Brit.). 

 r<fmhcht>i}>: pfiitth-n, Rothschild, Nov. Zoiir.. i. p. HT (l>^ti4). 



S ? . Tongue short and weak. Joint of segments 1 and 2 of palpus naked, 

 ojien. Antennal segments of ? somewhat compressed ventrally, transsection 

 snbtriangnlar, basal rows of ciliae distinct. Distal margins of wings entire; D- 

 iif hindwing very oblique, twice as long as D\ Tenth abdominal tergite of S 

 deeply divided into slender, hooked, pointed lolies (PI. XXIV. f. 6. 7. 8) ; sternite 

 membranaceous, without, lobes or processes. C'lasper very broad, divided apically : 

 harpe produced distally into a long process (PI. XXXII. f 12. 13). Xo friction-patch 

 upon clasj)er, bnt the scales at the eiid of the eighth tergite curved inwards. 

 Penis-sheath (PI. XXX. f. 2r»; with an arched lielt of teeth which reaches the 

 a[iical edge at one side and is continued on the membranaceous duct. Eighth tergite 

 of ? (PI. XVI. f 10) sinuate, with two or more teeth; vaginal plate produced 

 at each side of the cavity into a curved, pointed or dentiite, process (PI. XVI. 

 f. 14. lo). The lines and bands of the forewing are more pronounced in fresh 

 specimens ; the two straight double liands in the basal half which run obliquely 

 distad from the costal to the inner margin are more distinct in the ? than in the 

 J. Besides the large basal patch and the postdiscal band, which follows the curve 

 nf the distal margin, there are in some specimens vestiges of black discal lines. 

 Distal margin more convex in ? than in S . 



Early stages not known. 



Hah. Africa, from Sierra Leone and Abyssinia to < 'ape Dolony. 



Said to produce a sound as xXche.rontia. 



Three snbspecies : 



u. /'. jj06tic(i jjotitica. 



*Utiskiiia po.4ka Walker, /.c. (Natal) ; Boisd., .Spec. Ghi. Lep. Het. i. p. 50. n. G (1875) (Natal) : 

 Wallengr., ()fe. Vei. Ac. Uamil. xxxli. 1. p. 94 (1875) ; Butl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 59G. 

 n. 8 (1877) (Natal) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Iht i. p. 702. n. 7 (1892) (partim Natal). 



Piemloclani^ pcaika, Rothschild, I r. 



SI. Distal margin of forewing slightly convene between R' and W in botli 

 sexes. Black postdiscal band of hindwing interrupted in most spefimen«, sometimes 

 represented only l)y vein-dots. 



