PSYCHAUIUM. — CnLANIDOPnOllA. 451 



Genus PSYCHARIUM. 



Type. 



Psycharium, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schraett. p. 76 (1850) pcUuceiis. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi minute, porreet ; antennae of female clothed with 

 hair above, short; head, thorax, pectus, legs, abdomen at base and extremity 

 and on ventral surface clothed with very long hair ; tibiae with the spurs 

 minute, hind tibiae with the medial spurs absent ; wings very sparsely clothed 

 with hair. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the inner margin arched towards 

 base ; vein 3 from long before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 7 from below upper angle or shortly stalked with 

 8, 9 4 10 absent ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of 

 cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from middle of discocellulars ; 8 from or from 

 just before angle of cell. 



2045. Psycharium pellucens. 



Ps7/chariunv 'pellvLcens, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 461 (1850) ; 

 Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 498. 



2 . Head aad thorax clothed with very long black and white 

 hair ; abdomen with the first two segments clothed with long black- 

 brown hair, the medial segments dorsally golden cupreous, the 

 terminal segments and ventral surface clothed with very long black 

 and white hair. Fore wing very sparsely clothed with black and 



Psycharium 'pellucens, ^ • 



white hair, the margins narrowly black ; a blackish streak in cell 

 and a spot in end of it surrounded by a white ring ; an oblique series 

 of dentate white spots from costa to vein 4. Hind wing very 

 sparsely clothed with brown hair ; the margins narrowly brown. 

 Hah. Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 $ , Capetown {Claremont)^ 



I $ . Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus CHLANIDOPHORA.. 



Type. 

 Chlanidophora, Berg, Bull. Mosc. lii. p. 9 (1877) patagtata. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porreet, short ; frons with truncate oonical promi- 

 nence ; antennae of male simple ; head and thorax nearly smoothly scaled ; 

 tibiae with the spurs short, the fore tibiae with curved apical claw on outer side ; 

 abdomen with some rough hair on base of dorsum and lateral tufts towards 

 extremity. Fore wing with vein 3 before angle of cell ; 5 from just above 

 angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 



II from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3, 4 from 

 angle ; 5 from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



2046. Chlanidophora patagiata. 



Chlanidophom patagiata, Berg, Bull. Mosc. lii. pp. 11, 96 (1877) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 259. 



S . Head and thorax black ; vertex of head, shoulders, and 

 patagia xN'ith orange spots; tegulae and metathorax with orange 



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