PSEUDILEMA. 



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Fore wing yellowish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the 

 terminal area rather darker; an oblique postmedial series of short 

 fuscous streaks on the veins. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Angabunga K. {Meek), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus PSEUDILEMA. 

 Pseudilema, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 418 (1914) 



Type. 

 ochracea. 



Palpi upturned, slender ; proboscis fully developed ; antennas of male with 

 bristles and cilia ; tibiaj with the spurs moderate ; abdomen with large pro- 

 tuberance on ventral surface near extremity. Fore wing of male with the costa 

 lobed beyond middle ; the inner area very strongly dilated and lobed ; vein 1 

 connected by a bar with 2 ; the subcostal and median nervures approximated to 

 near end of cell ; 2 from well before angle, strongly curved at base ; 3 from 

 near angle of cell, curved at base ; 5 absent, 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 

 10 from angle, curved upwards to the costal lobe ; 11 becoming coincident 

 with 12. Hind wing with the basal part of costa strongly lobed and fringed 

 with long hair ; a fold in cell forming a large pocket on underside, some rough 

 hair at upper angle of cell ; vein 2 from long before angle ; 3, 4 coincident ; 

 5 absent ; 6, 7 coincident, short ; 8 from middle of cell ; female with the wings 

 normal, fore wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



In key differs from Graphosia in the palpi being upturned. 



*182 h. Pseudilema ochracea. 



Graphosia ochracea, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 415, pi. v. f. 36 (1904), $ . 

 Pseudilema dvnavsa, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 419, pi. v. f. 18 (1904), j . 



rf . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen grey tinged 

 with fuscous, the anal tufts ochreous. -Fore wing pale ochreous brown 



Fig. 73. — Pseudilema ochracea, c?, $> !• 



with slight brown irroration. Hind wing pale yellow; theunderside 

 with the long hair at base of costa ochreous, the hair at middle of 

 costa and upper angle of cell fuscous. 



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