LYCENIDZ. PSEUDODIPSAS. 47 
Genus 101.—PSEUDODIPSAS, Felder. 
Pseudodipsas, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, Pp. 243 (1860). 
** Eyes naked. Avxtenne indistinctly ringed, with a very slender, very lengthened, and 
rather straight club. a/fi scaly, scarcely hairy ; the second joint half the length of the head 
in the male, thrice as long in the female ; the third joint needle-like, about half the length 
of the second. FOREWING, with a four-branched subcostal nervure, the third branch emitted 
from the fourth nearly half way from its base and the apex.” 
“In the shape of the wings this very delicate species [the type species is Thecla 
(Pseudodipsas) cone, Felder, from the Aru Islands] reminds one of Difsas [ Pseudodipsas} 
lycenoides, Felder [from Amboina]; in the form of the head and antennz it comes near to the 
group of Zhecla polycletus, Linnzus, eficletus, Felder, apelles, Fabricius (section Hypochrysops, 
Felder).” (Felder, 1. c.) 
Dr. Felder placed a single species in this genus when describing it ; to this he added, in 
the “Reise Novara,” three others from the Malay Archipelago. Two of these species, 
P. sumatre and P. erycinoides, are true Poritias ; the third, P. lycenoides, from Amboina, is a 
very curious species, in which the hindwing has two short but well-formed tails, and the mark- 
ings of the underside remind one of species of the genus Lamfides, Hiibner. Hewitson says 
that this species belongs to the genus Lycenesthes, Moore, but the tails look to me to be too 
substantial to bring it into that genus. Hewitson goes so far as to say that P. /ycenoides equals 
L, bengalensis, Moore (=Z. emolus, Godart), but I think in this he is wrong. Messrs. Hewitson 
and Miskin have added two more species to Pseudodipsas from Australia, while the former de- 
scribed a single species from ‘‘ India,’’ which is my sole authority for including the genus in this 
work. Pseudodipsas is known to me by figures and descriptions only ; I have seen no specimen 
of it. It appears to be closely allied to Foritia, Moore, and is said by Hewitson to have three 
subcostal nervules to the forewing. 
638. Pseudodipsas cephones, Hewitson. 
P. cephenes, Hewitson, Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 344 ; idem, id., Ill, Diurm, Lep., p, 219, n. 3, 
pl. lxxxix, figs. 3, 4, /e#tale (1878). 
HABITAT : India (Hewttson). 
EXPANSE: Q, I°2 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : FEMALE. “ UPPERSIDE, 40¢h wings dark brown. Hindwing with a sub- 
marginal series of five black pyramidal spots, bordered with white, UNDERSIDE, Jéo/h 
wings white, with four or five spots before the middle, both wings crossed beyond the middle 
by a broad band, all [the markings] slightly darker than the rest of the wing, and bordered with 
brown. Forewing with two submarginal bands of lunular brown spots. AHindwing with a 
minute black spot near the base, and a submarginal series of pyramidal spots; the anal angle 
and a spot near it, where the outer margin projects, black, crowned with orange.” (Hewitson, 
1. c. in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.) 
. From the figures given this is a very plainly coloured and plainly marked species. The 
upperside is fuliginous, forewing unmarked, hindwing with a prominent anteciliary white [ine 
and a series of five submarginal prominent white lunules, their points resting on the anteciliary 
line, and enclosing black spots. All the markings of the underside are much blurred. It is 
probable that this species came from Burma, as the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson’s collection (from 
whom Mr. Hewitson obtained the specimen he described) contained many species from that 
region. 
n. 5, pl. xxii, figs. 9, male ; 10, female (1884). Hasitrat: Singapore. ExpansE: Male and female, 1't to 1'2 
inches. DeEscriPTION: ‘‘MALE. UPpPERSIDE, forewing black, with a band from the base to the middle, a 
band on the inner margin, and a transverse band of four spots beyond the middle, all green-blue. Aindwing 
green-blue, with the costal margin and a spot below the middle dark brown. UNbDERSIDE, doth wings rufous, 
pale. Forewing crossed at the middle by a band of white. Hindwing irrorated with white at the middle, 
and crossed by a band of brown spots ; three large spots on the outer margin; the two largest at the anal angle, 
white bordered with black, the middle spot marked with black, the outer spot black. FRMALE. UPpPERSIDE, 
both wings rufous-brown. HAHindwing with the outer half nearly lilac-white. UNDERSIDE like the male, except 
that the /erewing is crossed by a second band of white.’ (Hew/tson, |. c. in Il]. Diurn. Lep.) 
_ This is another species originally obtained by Mr. A. R. Wallace, which has not apparently been captured 
since. 
