1895.] FROM BRITISH CENTRAX AFRICA. 267 



Deiojpeia leonina, Walker, 1. c. vol. xxxi. p. 262 (1864). 



Deiopeia albocincta, Earn bur, Cat. Lep. Andal. ii. p. 228, note 

 (1866). 



Deiopeia serrata, Mabille, Le Nat. i. (3) p. 5 (1879). 



Africa generally and Madagascar. 



In Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands the allied Indian 

 species A. cnhraria also occurs ; the latter varies considerably and 

 has received many names. Lomaspilis pantheraria, Pelder, referred 

 to Argina by Mr. Kirby, is most probably a Geometrid Moth. 



PsEUDOSPiRis, gen. nov. 

 General aspect of Spiris, but the male with simple antennae, and 

 the radial vein of the secondaries emitted from the middle of the 

 discocellulars ; subcostal vein of primaries 5-branched, the first 

 branch emitted long before the end of the cell, the second at the 

 end, the third, foiuth, and fifth emitted from a long footstalk from 

 end of cell, the upper radial is also emitted from the inferior 

 margin of the same footstalk ; in the secondaries the subcostal 

 branches are emitted from a short footstalk ; the frenum is very 

 long in both sexes ; the palpi are short, the antennae thick and not 

 unlike those of the Agai-istidce; a prominent black corneous 

 frontal process. Type, P. paidifonnis. 



68. PsEUDospiRis PAiDiFOBMis, sp. n. (Plate XV. figs. 8, 9.) 

 (J . Curiously like Pais gordoni both in pattern and colouring : 

 primaries above pale buff, a black costal line running from the 

 base to the basal fourth, from \^hich point it thickens and leaves 

 a narrow edging of the ground-colour to apex ; a <-shaped 

 subbasal line, the lower furca of which runs along the submedian 

 vein, a dot near base of discoidal cell, a bisiuuated undulated line 

 across basal fourth to submedian vein, two annular markings 

 forming an oblique ft-shaped character, an annular siguioidal 

 marking over end of cell, an oblique line, slightly zigzagged above 

 the middle, at external third, a series of longitudinal iiiteruervular 

 streaks to the outer margiu, and the margin itself bJack ; an 

 irregular interrupted ferruginous-red band across the basal area 

 between the two black lines ; the inner border, excepting at base, 

 and a band, of the same form as and immediately beyond the 

 zigzagged discal black line, also ferruginous red, but the band 

 edged on both sides with metallic silver scales : secondaries 

 ferruginous red, with the apex, outer margin, and fringe blackish : 

 thorax black, varied with whitish ; abdomen ochreous, banded with 

 blackish. Under surface of wings pale tawny ferruginous, with 

 the costal borders yellower ; a tapering external yellowish border 

 intersected by black stripes from costa, in the primaries extending 

 to external angle and bounded on the costa by a blackish spot, but 

 in the secondaries terminating at the extremity of the first median 

 branch, bounded internally by a dusky streak, which becomes paler 

 towards its inferior extremity ; a blackish bar on the discocellulars : 

 pectus blackish, clothed with ochreous hair ; sides of frontal process 

 and palpi white ; tibiae striped longitudinally and tarsi barred with 



