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  LYCiENIDiE 
  (AFRICAN). 
  — 
  PSEUDERESIA. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  PSEUDEEESIA. 
  

  

  Pseiuleresia, 
  Butler 
  {antea, 
  pp. 
  4, 
  35). 
  

  

  IV.— 
  PSEUDEEESIA 
  CATALINA. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Pseiuleresia 
  Catalina, 
  Smith 
  and 
  Kirby 
  {anteci, 
  p. 
  4). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  IJ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Wings 
  dark 
  brown 
  above, 
  posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  tawny 
  blotch, 
  as 
  in 
  

   the 
  female, 
  but 
  sometimes 
  very 
  small. 
  

  

  Underside 
  paler, 
  with 
  indistinct 
  greyish 
  marginal 
  markings 
  ; 
  anterior 
  wings 
  

   with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  small 
  tawny 
  spots 
  running 
  from 
  the 
  costa 
  about 
  the 
  

   middle 
  (sometimes 
  only 
  one 
  tawny 
  spot 
  present) 
  ; 
  posterior 
  wings 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  

   female. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  spotted 
  with 
  white 
  below, 
  and 
  tipped 
  with 
  tawny. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Lagos 
  and 
  Sierra 
  Leone 
  (Preuss). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  specimen 
  from 
  Sierra 
  Leone, 
  the 
  blotch 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  above 
  is 
  as 
  large 
  as 
  in 
  

   the 
  $ 
  , 
  but 
  the 
  row 
  of 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  underside 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  is 
  reduced 
  to 
  one. 
  In 
  the 
  

   specimen 
  from 
  Lagos, 
  the 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  underside 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  are 
  well 
  marked, 
  but 
  the 
  

   blotch 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  is 
  much 
  reduced. 
  

  

  v.— 
  PSEUDEEESIA 
  BICOLOE. 
  i 
  . 
  Figs. 
  5, 
  6. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  Ij-o 
  inches. 
  

  

  Blalc. 
  Upperside 
  brown. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  two-fifths 
  of 
  the 
  breadth 
  

   from 
  the 
  costa 
  orange-red, 
  marked 
  only 
  by 
  a 
  short 
  brown 
  line 
  running 
  up 
  into 
  

   it 
  at 
  one-third 
  of 
  its 
  length 
  ; 
  it 
  does 
  not, 
  however, 
  extend 
  quite 
  to 
  the 
  hind 
  

   margin 
  below 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  Underside 
  paler 
  brown, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  tawny 
  spot 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  

   a 
  narrow, 
  broken, 
  transverse 
  tawny 
  stripe 
  beyond, 
  not 
  extending 
  to 
  the 
  costa, 
  a 
  

   tawny 
  spot 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  an 
  irregular 
  row 
  of 
  tawny 
  spots 
  running 
  

   from 
  the 
  costa 
  beyond, 
  and 
  meeting 
  the 
  upper 
  projection 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  irregular 
  

   tawny 
  blotch 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  which 
  extends 
  from 
  two-fifths 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  wmg 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  three 
  small 
  tawny 
  

  

  