( 223 ) 



is very broad at base, gradually tapering to end, carving ventrad and basad, and 

 protruding beyond the edge of the ventral margin of the clasper. Tlie sheath of 

 the penis has the lateral teeth less developed, while the mesial ones (the most 

 proximal) are represented by one or two short bnt rather high oarinae, or by 

 rariiiiform teeth. 



?. The eigiith alidoniiiial tergito lias, besides the two ]irocpsscs shown in 

 fig. 10 of PI. XVI. some smaller teetli at the edge ; the length of the processes 

 is very variable. Proximal part of vaginal plate (PI. XVI. f. 15) raised into a 

 dentate ridge, which is <leeply sinuate mesially : laterally the ridge joins a dentate 

 process which curves mesiad and ends in a point, this conical process prominent, 

 visible without dissection after removal of a few scales. 



Hah. West Africa, from .Sierra Leone to the Clongo. 



In the Tring Museum (1 SS, :} ? ? from: Sierra Leone {ti/pe, S) : Bo]ioto 

 and Yakusu, Ujijier Congo (K. Smith), one in July. 



184. Pseudoclanis grandidieri. 



*AiiilMli/.r finuiiUihnl JIabille, y;«//. .Soc. Phihuii. (7). iii. \t. \?,:_>. ii. « (lt!7'J) ; ii., Ann. Sue. Eul. 



Frntiff p. 297 (lH7;i) (S.E. Mad.) ; Saalm., L,ji. Miulag. p. 124. n. 29fi (1884) ; Kirby, Cil. Lij,. 



Ilel. i. p. G7l.;. n. .SO (1802). 

 *.lMhiiJy:r imtPi-xi Butler, .!««. .Unr/. X //, (5). .\iv. p. 40" (1884) (Betsileo ;— Mus. Brit.) ; Kirby, 



/.<■. n. 31 (1892). 

 Pfemhsmeriiilhni: si'ininix Karsch. Enl. Xiirlir. xxvi. p. .^"o. ii. 5 (1900) (West Madag.). 



cJ?. Though we have only seen the types oi gnnulitlicri and i/'atfr.ii, v,-e do 

 not entertain the slightest doubt that tlie third name quoted above refers to the 

 same sjiecies. Tongue short and weak, scarcely visil)le between the paljii. Palpus 

 long, slender. Tibiae spinose, hindtibia with few spines at end ; spurs with long 

 naked points, those of midtibia almost equal, longer terminal one of hindtibia more 

 than half the length of the first tarsal segment. Forewing falcate ; SC- and R' 

 of hindwing on a rather long stalk : R- = R'', R" nearly twice the length of R'. 



(S. Tenth tergite triangular, curved, simple, apex obtusely pointed, distally 

 snbcarinate above ; tenth sternite (PI. XXIIL f. 18) with two short pointed 

 processes. Clasper covered in distal half, outer side, with small, sharply bidentate 

 scales ; harpe (PI. XXXI. f. -,'2) dilated ventrally, fish-tall shaped at end, the 

 two processes unei[iiiil in type of ira/i'r.si, equal in another specimen dissected : 

 eighth tergile witli the marginal scales turned inside, forming a crest or riblion of 

 scales. Penis-sheath with a slender jiointed process directed proximad. 



?. Not dissected. 



Early stages not known 



IJiih. Madagascar ; Comoro Is. 



In the British Aluseum, coll. Uberthiir, coll. (irandidier and the Museum at 

 I Halle. 



A single J t'rnm Grande f'omore in the collection of ( liarles Oberthiir differs 

 ill the Ibrewing being less falcate, and in the black band of flie hindwing lieiug 

 I more proximal and almost sejiarated into vein-spots. 



