1920] Holland, Lepidopiera of the Congo 275 



Gonopterinae 

 PsEUDOGONiTis Hampson 

 (540) 1. Pseudogonitis variabilis, new species 



Plate XIII: Figure 5, d'; Figures 6 and 7, 9 9 

 o"', 9 . Palpi porrect, ascending, the third joint moderately long and slender; 

 the fore wing rounded on the costa before the apex, slightly incurved about the 

 middle, strongly produced at the extremity of vein 4 and deeply excavated between 

 tip of apex and this point; fringes of fore wing crenulate from apex to tornus; eyes 

 dark brown; palpi dark brown, lighter below; frons, vertex, tegulse, patagia and 

 upper side of thorax varying from rufous to gray; tegulse always marked externally 

 by a paler line defined inwardly by a darker line; the upper side of the abdomen 

 ranging from pale redcUsh or gray to dark fuscous in some specimens. Lower side of 

 thorax and abdomen concolorous with the upper side; legs concolorous, tarsi darker 

 brown, marked at the end of the joints with minute white spots. The fore wing in- 

 dicates the presence of transverse basal, subbasal, median, postmedian, and sub- 

 marginal bands, more or less obhterated upon the disc of the wing, but always persist- 

 ing on the costal margin, where these bands are represented by five spots, the first 

 three of which may or may not be continued downward across the wing in the form of 

 macular bands. The submarginal band in all specimens which I have examined persists 

 in the form of a subtriangular dark, spot on the costa, its outer margin being about 

 4 mm. from the apex, whence it is continued downward across the wing in a very 

 irregular sinuate band composed of dark more or less sagittate spots, which sometimes 

 fuse with each other and form a solid band. The upper or costal end of this sub- 

 marginal band is in all specimens before me defined externally by a fine white line 

 extending from the costa as far as vein 6, the space between this line and the apex 

 being in most specimens lighter. Near the extremity of vein 4 the outer margin is 

 obscured by dark spots and shades. In one specimen before me the entire outer third 

 of the wing is almost solidly dark brown. The hind wing on the upper side has the 

 inner two-thirds paler and the outer third banded with a darker shade varying from 

 pale gray in some specimens to deep black, with the region of the anal angle always 

 somewhat lighter. On the under side the wings are some shade of pale brown or gray, 

 except on the inner margin of the fore wing, which from the base below the cell to the 

 outer angle is paler, whitish or pale testaceous; at the end of the cell there is invariably 

 a dark spot, and on the costa the spots which on the upper side indicate the location 

 of the transverse bands may or may not faintly reappear on the lower side. Before 

 the apex, near the costa, there is a small dark spot, indicating the point at which on 

 the upper side the submarginal band appears; below this spot, from vein 2 to vein 5, 

 in all specimens examined by me there is a broad black ferruginous spot, suboval in 

 form, beyond which the outer margin is paler, marked with small pepper-and-salt 

 maculations, the marginal line being regularly looped, dark in color with minute white 

 points at the end of the nervules, the fringes being pale, tipped at their extremities 

 with dark brown or blackish. The hind wing on the under side invariably has a 

 minute discal spot at the end of the cell followed by two parallel very fine more or less 

 irregularly curved postmedian and submarginal bands, which in some specimens be- 

 come diffuse, and in some specimens as they approach the inner margin of the hind 

 wing — which none of tliem reach — become intensified or are indicated by patches of 

 minute black spots. The marginal line on the hind wing is like that on the fore wing, 



