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PSEUDACEAEA. By Dr. C. Atjrivillius. 
simulator. 
i ulvaria. 
impleta. 
fickei. 
Occident alls. 
hobleyi. 
karschi. 
the upperside of the forewing is black-brown to the base or more or less suffused with red-brown in the basal 
half; in the latter case the median band is less sharply defined basally in cellules la—2; hindwing above yellow- 
red with black rays and sharply defined, but narrow, black marginal band. Ashanti to Angola. 
Ps. simulator Btlr. (46 d). In the <d the forewing is blackish above with an orange-yellow median 
band, which is anteriorly about 4 mm. in breadth, covers the base of cellules 3—5 and forms a spot in the 
apex of the cell, but is posteriorly much widened in cellules la—2, about 11—12 mm. broad; sometimes the 
base is red-brown, in which case the median band is indistinctly defined basally; hindwing above reddish 
at the base, in the middle lighter, yellowish or at the inner margin whitish, and at the distal margin darkened 
without sharp demarcation. In the $ the median band of the forewing is white, of almost uniform breadth and 
termmating posteriorly in the middle of cellule 2, the hindwing reddish at the base and with a broad white 
median band, which is almost twice as broad at the inner as at the costal margin. Sierra Leone to Ashanti. 
Ps. fulvaria Btlr. “Male above smoky-brown; the nervures and folds black; primaries with a hroad 
strongly angulated tawny band, widening from subcostal nervure to inner margin. Secondaries with central 
area, from subcostal nervure to inner margin, tawny-ochreous, deeper coloured at base. Female: primaries 
with an oblique broad creamy band from costal nervure to just below second median branch, where it becomes 
obsolete, but is represented by a greyish nebula on centre of first median branch and reappears as a creamy 
ochraceous patch on inner margin; secondaries with the base greyish ochraceous, black-spotted; a central 
diffused creamy band from costa to inner margin, which is ochreous.” Angola. 
Ps. impleta Griirib. approaches the preceding species, but differs from it and from all others in the 
very broad transverse band of the forewing, which entirely covers the base of cellule 2 and also nearly reaches 
the base of cellules la and lb, and in the uniform yellow-brown ground-colour of the hindwing. In the d 
the bright yellow-brown median band of the forewing has a breadth of 7 mm. at the costal margin, 12.5 mm. 
at vein 3 and 18 mm. at the inner margin and also covers the anterior angle of the cell; its distal edge is straight 
from the costal margin to vein 3; the hinclwing is only somewhat darkened close to the base, has a narrow 
blackish marginal band (anteriorly about 3 mm.,posteriorly only 1 mm. in breadth) and is weakly angulated 
at the anal angle. In the $ the transverse band is even broader than hi the d and its distal boundary is 
curved; it reaches the hindmargin as in the <$ and is yellow-brown; the hindwing is rounded at the anal angle 
and has a somewhat broader marginal band, but is otherwise coloured as hi the d- Sesse Islands. 
Ps. fickei Weym. d- Forewing black-brown with a broad orange median band, which is about 
7 mm. in breadth at the costal margin, 12 mm. at vein 3, is not widened at the hindmargin and hence does 
not entirely cover the base of cellules la—2; the hindwing is distinguished by having on the upperside a black 
costal band extending [to vein 7 or! 6 [and ah black marginal band 10 mm. in breadth, sharply 
defined basally; the ground-colour is consequently only present as a triangularly rounded-off, sharply defined, 
whitish median band; hindwing beneath reddish brown at the base nearly to veins 2 and 5, then with a sharply 
defined white median band of a uniform breadth of 7 mm., which reaches the costal margin. $ unknown. 
German East Africa: Mhonda. - occidentals form. nov. only differs in having the median band of the hind¬ 
wing above light orange, beneath light yellow and not sharply defined and not reaching the costal margin. 
Gold Coast: Accra. — In both forms the stripes on the interneural folds are fine and stand out but little. 
Ps. hobleyi Neave (= togoensis Bartel] $ = tirikensis Neave). As in the preceding species the $ 
has on the forewing a broad orange transverse band, which covers the apex of the cell and the base of cellules 
4—6. is angled at vein 3 and then continued in a uniform breadth to the hindmargin, without completely 
covering the base of cellules 1—2; the hindwing is reddish brown at the base and has then a broader or narrower 
white median band, which is very sharply defined and becomes wider towards the inner margin. The $ only 
differs in having the transverse band of the forewing white, 8—9 mm. in breadth at the costal margin and often 
only continued to the middle of cellule 2, occasionally reaching the hindmargin, but in cellules la—2 narrower 
and less sharply defined; the dark marginal band of the hindwing is often broader than in the d 1 . Uganda 
and Togoland. 
I subjoin P. karschi Frulnst., which is unknown to me and is insufficiently described. “Forewing 
grey-brown, below the cell basally tinged with red-brown; beyond the^cell a narrow dark yellowish band, 
which reaches median vein 3 and costally becomes obsolete; black dots in the cell as in ruhama Heiv., base 
of the hindwing dark red-brown, the submarginal area whitish; distal border dark black-grey; interneural 
stripes thinner, somewhat thinner than in ruhama and dark brown instead of black. Under surface: forewing 
lighter than above, the distal half grey, the basal half black-brown; anally at the submedian a whitish area; 
hindwing as above, except that the marginal border is narrower and the submarginal area purer white.” Togo¬ 
land : Bismarckburg. 
4. Lucretia Group. 
The species of this group are easy to separate from those of the preceding groups by the black, white-striped palpus 
and by the absence of the black spots at the base of the forewing. Beneath, however, they are very different. The sexes 
are coloured and marked almost alike. 
