340 MK. W. P. KIKBY — A EEVJSIO>f OF 



PSEUDOMACROMIA TOEKIDA. (Plate LII. fig. 7.) 



Long. Corp. 58 millim. ; exp. al. 100 millim. ; long. pter. 5 millim. 



Male. — Head violet above and testaceous beneath ; nasus, rhinaiium, and labium 

 (except at the basal suture, which is testaceous, and the sides at the base, which are 

 rather broadly yellow) black ; occipital triangle testaceous yellow. Thorax brownish 

 testaceous, prothorax with a broad brassy-green band on each side above, the pleura 

 more inclining to yellow, with three rather broad and somewhat irregular brassy-green 

 stripes on each side. Legs black ; coxae, trochanters, and base of femora testaceous 

 above. Abdomen black, with a large testaceous spot on the sides of all the segments, 

 except the tenth ; the base of the third and fourth, and the lateral carinas on the third, 

 are also narrowly of the same colour ; the dorsal carina is marked with a testaceous 

 spot in the middle of segments 3-8, and the carina itself shows an interrupted line of 

 the same colour from segments 4-9 ; on segment 7 the central spot is united with those 

 on the sides by a transverse band. Wings hyaline, slightly inclining to yellowish ; 

 neuration black, pterostigma dark brown between black nervures ; membranule of all 

 the wings white ; fore wings with 11-12 antenodal and 8 postnodal nervures, subtri- 

 angular space consisting of four cells. Anal appendages thick, short, black, about as 

 long as the ninth segment, acuminate, the lower one as long as the others, those of the 

 second segment not conspicuous. 



Female with the brassy-green markings of the thorax replaced with a violet irides- 

 cence over brown. Wings yellowish hyaline, three subtriangular cells. Abdomen with 

 the dorsal carina from the third to the ninth segment much more continuous, the sutures 

 narrowly yellow as far as that between the fifth and sixth segments, and the lateral 

 spots more extended, connected by a line across the back on the middle of segments 5-7. 

 Appendages straight, pointed, nearly as long as in the male, but more slender. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



Another specimen, from Abyssinia, is rather smaller and darker ; there are but seven 

 postnodal nervures on the fore wings, and the markings on the sides of the second and 

 third segments of the abdomen are greenish, and the subtriangular space consists of 

 three cells only. Another dark specimen, from West Africa, has only three subtri- 

 angular cells and seven postnodal nervures on the fore wings, in which, too, the upper 

 triangle is open on one side. There is also another from Natal, nearly agreeing with 

 the type, but with three subtriangular cells. Another male, apparently of the same 

 species, from Teneriff'e, shows extreme anomalies of neuration. The wings are strongly 

 clouded, and the last antenodal and first postnodal nervures are not continuous ; in all 

 the other specimens the first two postnodal nervures are not continuous. On the fore 

 wings there are three cells in the subtriangular space on the left side and four on the 

 right, and on the right side is one supratriangnlar nervure. On the hind wings the 

 triangles are traversed, and on the left side there are two cross nervures in the lower 

 basal cell, instead of one. 



