﻿LYC.ENII).E 
  (African). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  IX. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  PSEUDERESIA. 
  

  

  Pseudercsia, 
  Butler 
  {antcci, 
  p. 
  4). 
  

  

  IL— 
  PSEUDERESIA 
  HELENA. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Pseudercsia 
  Helena, 
  H. 
  H. 
  Druce, 
  " 
  Entomologist's 
  Monthly 
  Magazine," 
  

   vol. 
  25, 
  p. 
  108 
  (October, 
  1888). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  l"!^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  dull 
  purplish-black. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  red 
  band, 
  rather 
  

   irregular 
  on 
  both 
  sides, 
  running 
  from 
  below 
  the 
  costa 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  

   all 
  the 
  fringes, 
  and 
  the 
  fold 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings, 
  grey. 
  

  

  Underside 
  dark 
  brown, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  double 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  

   yellow 
  spots, 
  coalescing 
  and 
  then 
  ceasing 
  before 
  reaching 
  the 
  hinder 
  angle 
  ; 
  

   another 
  row 
  of 
  six 
  spots, 
  the 
  two 
  lowest 
  reddish, 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell, 
  two 
  spots 
  on 
  

   the 
  costa 
  nearer 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  another 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  posterior 
  wings 
  

   with 
  two 
  submarginal 
  rows 
  of 
  yellow 
  spots, 
  and 
  with 
  nine 
  larger 
  ones, 
  forming 
  

   three 
  rows 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  row 
  of 
  four 
  spots, 
  two 
  near 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  

   three 
  near 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  besides 
  these 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  few 
  more 
  pale 
  dots. 
  

  

  Legs 
  black, 
  banded 
  with 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Addah, 
  W. 
  Africa. 
  

  

  lu 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  II. 
  H. 
  Druce. 
  

  

  Shape 
  of 
  P. 
  Eleaza, 
  Hewitson 
  (Pentila 
  Eleaza, 
  Hew., 
  " 
  Exotic 
  Butterflies," 
  vol. 
  5, 
  Pentila 
  aud 
  

   Liptena, 
  II. 
  figs. 
  11, 
  12 
  (1873) 
  ), 
  from 
  Old 
  Calabar 
  ; 
  but 
  the 
  latter 
  species 
  has 
  a 
  red 
  spot 
  above 
  ou 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  iustond 
  of 
  ou 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings, 
  and 
  the 
  undersurface 
  is 
  quite 
  different. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  I., 
  JANUARY, 
  1890. 
  E 
  E 
  

  

  