PAIDA. — PSEUDOSPIRIS. 589 



and legs white and orange, the latter banded with black ; abdomen 

 orange and white, with dorsal black bands and lateral aiidsublateral 

 series of points. Fore wing yellowish white; the costal and inner 

 margins irrorated witli black : a deep red stripe in submedian fold 

 from liear base to postniedial line ; a snbbasal black line from costa 

 to median nervnre ; a double antcmcdial oblique line interrupted at 

 the red stripe, then sinuous ; black-edged and centred ocelli in and 

 below middle of cell, with a few blue scales on their middles ; a 

 similar large reniform discoidal spot ; the postmedial line angled 

 inwards at vein 5, below vein 3 retracted to the reniform spot, then 

 sinuous, a waved deep red line beyond it, and black streaks in the 

 interspaces of terminal area ; cilia black, the ti})s whitish. Hind 

 wing orange suffused with red ; a diffused discoidal lunule, the ter- 

 minal area red with orange spots on termen ■ cilia black at base, 

 yellowish at tips ; the long hair on inner margin yellowish. 



2 • Hind wing bright orange, with black discoidal bar ; a waved 

 black subtcrmiual line connected with termen by streaks in the inter- 

 spaces ; cilia black, orange at tips. 



Hull. iiERUxs S.W. Africa, Damaraland ; Transvaal, Pretoria 

 (Distant) ; Natal, Tugela E,. (Lorimer), 3 c? , type fjonloni, Estcourt 

 {Hiiichinson), 2 d , {Leujh) 1 $ . Ex^i. 42 millini. 



Genus PSEUDOSPIRIS. 



iype. 

 Pseudospiris, Butl. P.Z.S. 1895, p. 207 paidijonnin. 



Proboscis i'ully developed ; palpi porrect, clothed with rough scales and not 

 reaching as far as Irons, which has a truncate conical prominence excised in 

 front and with a flat corneous plate below it with rounded outer edge ; antenniie 

 of male simple, distinctly dilated towards extremity ; fore tibi;c with a curved 

 spine at extremity on outer side ; the spurs moderate ; abdomen with slight 

 lateral tufts of hair on terminal segments, the claspers of male large and 

 covered by the large anal tuft. Fore wing narrow, produced at apex ; vein ',i from 

 well before angle of cell ; 4,-5 from angle ; (J, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 from cell rarely 

 anastomosing or stalked with 6, 7, 8, 9 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 o, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 

 8 free at base, tiien anastomosing with the cell to near extremity ; the inner 

 area clothed above with long hair, in male being extremely long. 



110. Pseudospiris paidiformis. 



Pseudospiris paidiformis, Butl. P.Z.S. 1895, p. 207, pi. xv. ff. 8 9. 



cJ . Head and thorax ochrcous ; palpi at tips, frontal prominence, a 

 spot on vertex of head, edges of tegulteand patagia,and spotson meso- 

 and mctatliorax black ; legs bunded with black; a1)domen orange- 

 yellow with black segmental lines. Fore wing oclireous; the costal 

 edge black at base ; a subcostal streak from antcmcdial line to apex ; 

 an oblicpie subbasal black line from costa to vein I on which there is a 

 short streak; a small black spot in base of cell ; elliptical deepredspots 

 below costa and cell, tlie latter with an oblicjuo line from its outer edge 

 to vein 1 ; an oblique sinuous antomedial black line ; a large oblitjue 

 elliptical black-edged annulus in middle of cell, with a similar one 



