146 • THE AFRICAN PSYCHOPSIS-SPECIES. 



NOTE X. 



ON THE AFRICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS 

 PSYCHOPSIS NEWM. (OSMYLIDAE) 



H. W. VAN DER WEELE Ph. D. 



(With 2 figures). 



This remarkable geuus, only recorded from Australia and 

 the Old World, was represented by one species in central 

 Africa, Psychopsis zebra Brauer, Ann. Hofmuseum Wien, 

 IV, p. 102 (1889). I had not seen this species before this 

 year, when I purchased, from the London naturalist 

 W. F. H. Rosenberg, a large series of it from Angola, 

 Longa and Luacinga River, November 1899, collected by 

 Penrice. By the yellow colour of the body and the yellowish 

 wings with pale reddish transverse lines on the forewings, 

 it is very easily to be distinguished from an other new 

 species from the Zambesi River, that I purchased for about 

 three years from the same naturalist. It has the body black, 

 the wings somewhat smaller than zebra, but of the same 

 general form, only the hindwings are narrower. The mem- 

 brane is greyish, and in the forewings there are many small 

 grey blotches, so that they are greyish clouded and spotted. 

 I give here the full description of the new species : 



Psychopsis nebulosa, n. sp. 



Body black. Antennae greyish brown, nearly as long as 

 the abdomen without the appendices. Head black, the 

 labrum yellowish. Prothorax above with a yellow spot on 

 each side. Thorax with short grey hairs. Legs blackish brown, 



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