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Hab. West Africa : Sierra Jjeone. 



Two ? ? ill the Triiig Mn^euiu : the type (figured) without locality. Not i 

 iii other collection:^. 



LVI. PSEUDOCLANIS.— Typus : poistica. 



Basiana Walker, List Lijt. Lis. B. M. viii. p. '.^37 (1856) (parlim ; type ; tIciiraUoii). 

 Smcriiithtts, Lucas (/foj! Latreille, ISili), Aim. Sor. Eiit. Fr. p. 60i3 (18oT). 

 Zonilia Walker, I.e. xxxi. p. 34 (l"34) (partim). 



Ambiili/j\ JlabiUe (iion Walker, 1856), Bull. Sue. Pfiilnm. (7). iii. p. 135 (1879). 

 Claiiiii. Druce {noii Hubner, 1&22), iu Moloney, Weal Afiie. Foreiti-ij p. 493 (1887). 

 Pseudoelaiiis Rothschikl, Xo\'. Zuui,. i. p. 96 (1894) (type: poslieu). 

 Pscndosmcriiilliiis, Karsch (aoii Butler, 1877). Eiil. .y,i.elii: xxvi. p. 370) (190U). 



cf ?. Touguc much shorter thau in Cluids. Joint of palpus ojieu as in 

 Pohjptijckm. Abdominal tergites spinosc all over. Tibiae spinose ; two jiairs of 

 spurs to hindtibia ; pulvillus uud paronychium present. No frictioii-jiatch on 

 clasper. Distal margins of wings entire, ape.x of forewing produced ; hiudwing 

 yellow or red, with large conspicuous black basal patch. 



Early stages not known. 



Larva jiresumably sjiiuose and with rounded head. 



Hab. Africa and ^Madagascar. 



Differs from the species of Foli/pti/ctMs with falcate forewiugs in the weak 

 tongue. Some of the species dealt with under Foh/pti/ckus—ior instance p>/garga 

 and allies — will ])erhaps ultimately come into this genus ; but we leave them there 

 for the present, confiniug Ptnytdoclanis to the species with a large black basal patch 

 on the hiudwing, which will enable also those lepidopterists who do uot go closely 

 into the structure of the insects to locate correctly any new species. 



Key to the species : 



Hindwing red, without black postdiscal band . 182. P. karschi. 

 Hiudwing yellow, with black jiostdiscal band . 183. P. postica. 

 Hindwing pinkish grey, with black postdiscal 



baud . . . . . . .184. P. gmndidicri. 



182. Pseudoclanis karschi spec. nov. 



?. A broad-winged insect. Apex of forewiug produced into a long blunt 

 hook ; distal margins entire, that of forewiug convex between R- and SM". Tibiae 

 spinose. Head, thorax, and basal segments of abdomen olive-green above, rest of 

 abdomen and underside clay-colour, legs olive-brown. 



Wings, Hpperside. Forewiug olive-green ; three darker green lines in basal 



half, running obliquely from costal to inner margin, the first reaching inner margin 

 before middle, the second in middle, the second and third converging behind ; an 

 indistinct median line, convex from upper angle of cell to H', tiicn continued from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin, followed by another line between costal margin 

 and R^ : a yellowish green iliscomarginal area bordered by the median line and 

 R'' ; apex of wing of the same colour ; an oblique brown line from tip of SC" to 



R- bordering a brownisli submarginal space. Hindwing rosy red ; a large black 



basi-discal patch behind the cell ; abdominal fold dirty grey : marginal area yellowish 

 olive-green. 



