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apex obtusely pointed, exterior margin slightly oblique and sbglitly scalloped, and 

 broadly but obtusely angulated outward below the apex, posterior margin slightly 

 recurved; costal vein stout, extending to be^^ond half the margin; first subcostal 

 brand) emitted at about one-fifth before end of the cell, second branch immediately 

 before the end, third branch at nearly one-third beyond the end ; cell broad, rather 

 short; upper discocellular extremely short, middle discocelliilar inwardly-oblique and 

 slightly concave posteriorly, lower discocellular oblique, and very slender; two upper 

 median veinlets from lower end of cell, lower median from two-fifths before the 

 end ; submedian slightly recurved. Hindwiwj short, triangular ; anterior margin 

 arched from the base, apex obtuse, exterior margin obliquely-convex, and slightly 

 scalloped, abdominal margin long, anal angle obtusely pointed ; precostal vein short, 

 almost straight; costal vein extending to the apex; subcostal branch at three- 

 fourths from np[ier base of cell ; upper discocellular emitted at some distance from 

 base of subcostal branch and cursed outwards, lower discocellular outwardly-oblique, 

 recurved, very slender ; cell broad; two upper median veinlets trom lower end of 

 cell, middle median from opposite base of upper discocellular; submedian vein 

 straight, inner recurved. Bodij moderately stout ; palpi porrect, extending more 

 than half beyond the head, compactly clothed with appressed hairy-scales, which 

 are more laxly disposed on the middle joint above ; forelegs of viale slender, tibise 

 and tarsi clothed with long fine hairs to the tip, tibia and tarsus of nearly equal 

 length ; femora beneath clothed with similar fine hairs ; foreh'ijs of female perfect, 

 more slender, clothed with scales and n few fine very short lateral hairs ; tarsus 

 with the four terminal joints, together, as long as the first, lateral pair of spines 

 very slender, fifth joint with a forward-projected pair of curved spurs, slender 

 pulvillus and stoutish paron^'chia ; antennae with a gradually well-formed cylindrical 

 club ; eyes naked. 



Larva. — j^Wedah]. Cylindrical. Head armed with two long vertically-divergent 

 very finely-spined horns ; a dorsal short fleshy pointed-tubercle on the fifth segment, 

 and two fleshy sharp-pointed erect tubercles on the eleventh segment. 



Pupa. — Suspended by tail, but in a horizontal position ; rather stout and 

 broad; anal end obtuselj- protruded upward; dorsum keeled and ending in a 

 rounded protuberance projecting over the waist ; thorax posteriorly protuberant ; 

 head with two short divei'gent points in front; thorax, wing-cases posteriorly, and 

 base of abdomen laterally broad and angular. 

 Type. — P. Avesta. 



MniiCEY. — The two species of PseudergoUs, the only known genus in this sub- 

 family, are both excellent mimics of ErgoUs. The type species, P. Avesta, is a very 

 fair mimic of Ergolls Gelebensis, and also an excellent one of the common Precis 

 intermedia. The male of P. Wedoh is most like Ergolls Ariadne in its colour and 



