PSEXJDOTAMILA. 27 



Genus PSEUDOTAMILA. 



lype. 



PseudotamUa, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 238 (1883) vanella. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, extending to well beyond the 

 frons, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front ; frons with large rounded 

 ]irominence ; eyes small, renifoi-ni ; antenna; of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with large scales and hair, the metathorax with crest ; fore tibi;e rather 

 short- and broad, spined at sides, and with long curved claw on inner side at 

 extremity, and short claw on outer ; mid and hind tibia; spined. Fore wing 

 short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; ti from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 '6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Hind wing orange copiosa. 



B. Hind wing black. 



a. Hind wing with antemedial whitish band and discal spot . vanella. 

 h. Hind wing with white discal spot with another spot below it. jpcrnunuta, 



29, Pseudotamila copiosa. (Plate LV. fig. 9.) 



HeUothis copiom. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 23. 



S . Head and thorax clothed Avith rufous, black, and a few grey 

 scales; abdomen black, with grey segmental lines, the ventral 

 surface yellowish. Fore wing red-brown ; a yellowish spot at base 

 of costa ; a highly excurved and slightly waved antemedial grey 

 line ; the postmedial line oblique towards costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved, the area between the lines pale suffused 

 with black ; the reniform blackish with some rufous before it, 

 placed on the medial shade which is oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then incurved ; the subterminal line with some black 

 before it at costa and the area beyond it tinged with grey, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, then excurved and dentate, incurved below 

 vein 2. Hind wing deep orange ; the base black, extending on 

 inner margin almost to join the terminal black band which has a 

 sinuous inner edge ; a large oblong black discoidal spot. Underside 

 orange ; fore wing with spots in and below middle of cell, the 

 reniform stigma and postmedial band black ; hind wing with short 

 subbasal streak below the cell, discoidal spot, and subterminal band 

 obsolescent towards costa, black. 

 Hah. W. China, Hou-Kow, 10,000 ft., 1 S type. ^.*p. 28 millim. 



30. Pseudotamila vanella. 



Tanilla vanella, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 107 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 287. 



Head and thorax clothed with black-brown, rufous, and white 

 scales ; palpi below, pectus, and legs clothed with greyish-white 

 hair ; abdomen black, with whitish segmental lines, the ventral 

 surface whitish, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing black, 

 overlaid by rufous or vinous-red and white scales ; a curved white 



