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being connate instead of separate at origin. At present it seems inadvisable 

 to describe a new genus for its reception. 



PSEUDOCAPRIMA, Wlsm. gn. n. 

 = falsehood ; Caprima, nom. gen.) 



Type. Pseudocaprima callopisma, Wlsm. 



= CAPRIMA, Wkr. ; Cat. Lp. Ins. BM. XXXI. 1 28-9 (1864) {partim, 

 ? (nee <$)]. 



Antenna (?) minutely biciliate. Labial Palpi smooth, porrect, not 

 reaching beyond the face. Haustellum well developed. Head and 

 Thorax smooth. Foreuuings broad, elongate, narrower towards the base, 

 costa slightly and evenly rounded, apex obtuse, termen moderately 

 straight, somewhat oblique. Neuration : 12 veins ; 2 from very near 

 angle of cell ; 5 and 6 remote but parallel ; 7 and 8 stalked, enclosing the 

 apex ; 9 separate. Hindwings as broad as the forewings, apex rounded, 

 termen convex. Neuration : 8 veins ; 4 nearer to 5 than to 3 ; 6 and 7 

 separate but slightly approximating ; 8 from base ; I a , I b , I c , present. 

 Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth, spurs short. 



It will probably be found that the <J has strongly biciliate or bipectinate 

 antennas. 



The two species differ from Caprima gelida, Wkr., and Caprimima albi- 

 collis, Pgnstchr., in their neuration, but the pattern and colouring of all are 

 so similar, that confusion might easily arise as already proved by previous 

 experience. 



3668. Pseudocaprima callopisma, Wlsm. sp. n. 



= *Caprima gelida, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. BM. XXX. 129 (1864) [partim, $ New 

 Guinea] ; Swinh., Cat. East. & Austral. Lp. Het. Oxf. Mus. I. 61, No. 265 (1892) 

 [partim, 'b. New Guinea (WallaceV\\ Hmpsn., Cat. Lp. Phal. BM. II. 286-7, 

 No. 602 (1900) [partim syn., ' N. Guinea' (= Wallace] nee descr. nee fig. nee 

 1 N. Guinea ' ( = Pagenstecker)]. 



Antenna brownish fuscous. Palpi fuscous. Head and Thorax 

 brownish fuscous ; tegulaa with a slight purple tinge ; patagia with a white 

 spot at their outer edge. Forevuings dark purplish fuscous, with a broad 

 snow-white band arising from the dorsum before the middle, slightly 

 attenuate at its upper extremity and nearly reaching to the costa ; beyond 

 it is a broad chestnut-red patch, margined except on the dorsum by the 

 purplish ground-colour; cilia purplish fuscous (these are somewhat injured, 

 but there is a slight indication that they were tipped with white on the 

 middle of the termen, but not at the tornus) ; underside as above. Exp. al. 

 30 mm. Hindivings purplish fuscous, with a broad white patch extending 

 to the base and reaching beyond the middle, but not overflowing the 

 limbus, although touching the margin at the flexus, beyond it a chestnut- 



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