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PSEUDOMAENAS. By L. B. Prout. 
Icucograpia. 
alridaia. 
margarUa. 
cumeiror- 
rhahda. 
furneri. 
Iniricaia. 
oncodo- 
gramma. 
Invirgata. 
anguinaiu. 
iricolor. 
lost a sxibcostal vein of the forewing, not — as is so general in the subfamily — through the coincidence 
of the fth with the 2nd but through the coincidence of the 4th with the 3rd or the 5th. The antenna is 
always bi])ectinate in the d', often also in the the hindtibia never dilated, all the spurs present, the cell 
of the forewing long, but in varying degree, the 1st and 2nd sidxcostal long-stalked in both sexes, the 2nd 
nearly always anastomosing with the 3rd. The genera are not very sharply defined; Jaxse separates 
Pseudomaenas from his great genus Drepanogynis (see below) by the palpi — 3rd joint “small, drooping, 
naked" in the former, “porrect, hidden in scales, which cover this joint rather loosely" in the latter; but 
the pal])i in the latter show a good deal of variation. The 8 s])ecies which have been provisionally grouped 
as Pseudomaenas, probably on account of the glossy wings, with rather narrow, very sharply marked 
forewing (sometimes recalling the two ])receding genera) and ampler, unmarked (or almost unmarked) hind¬ 
wing, further agree in having the vestiture less hairy than in many of the allies, $ antenna not pectinate, 4th 
sixbcostal in the d' coincident with the 5th, costal of hindwing closely approximated to cell for a long 
distance. Agrammodes Warr., first proposed for it, was preoccupied. 
Ps. leucograpta ITarr. Only the type $ known and I have not seen it. Expanse 30 mm. Both wings 
rather narrow, forewing pale brown, Avith longitudinal, finely blackish-edged AA'hite bands, one (behind the cell) 
straight from base to near termen, then sharply bent and running to apex, another (shorter and slenderer) 
about the radial fold, from approximately i i to % the Aving-length. HindAA'ing very pale buff. Montague Baths, 
C'ape Colony. 
Ps. alcidata Feld. (14 a) has a larger number of wdiite streaks, none of them bent. Tlie $ (exceptio¬ 
nally to the general rule) shares the A venation. C'ape C'olony (loc. typ.) and Natal. 
Ps. margarita Warr. The pxire white longitudinal markings of the forewing so broadened that it is 
simplest to regard this as the ground-colour; there rejnain 3 sepia-brown streaks; a broad one from base 
nearly to apex, bent soniewhat like the white one of leucograpta, but more bluntly; a slender one in front of it, 
parallel with costa; and a slender one close to termen and distal half of hindmargin, therefore bent like 
the tornus. Founded on 2 $$ from Smithfield, Orange Free State, which I haA^e not seen. 
Ps. eumetrorrhabda sp. n. (14 a). White, the face and palpus sprinkled Avith broAvn, the thorax largely 
broAvn above, including the tegrdae except their outer edge. Palpus strong, its length almost tAvice the diameter 
of the eye. Wings more elongate than in margarita, perhaps not quite so narroAv as in leucograpta : foreAA'ing 
intermediate betAveen the tAVo, the alternating AxBite and broAvn bands approximately equal in Avidth. Hind¬ 
AA'ing clean AA'hite, the broAA'n terminal line slenderer beneath than above. Kookfontein. C'ape C'olony. 3—6 March 
1912 (S. ViL.JOEX), type Q di the Transvaal MuseAim. 
Ps. tumeri sp. n. (13 b). Coloration nearly as in the preceding, the markings transverse, though strongly 
oblicpxe. Costal and interrupted terminal border lighter than the other markings, the contrast between the 
straight antemedian band and the strongly double-pronged postmedian very striking and accountable for 
the shape of the central AA'hite spot. HindA\ ing better marked than in most Pseudomaenas. C'eres, Ca]Ae Colony, 
April 1925 (Pv. E. Turner), 1 A in the British Museum. 
Ps. intricata Walh. (= maculipennis WUgr., callistege Feld.) (14 a). Very distinct in the broAvn tone 
and the broken pattern of paired fuscous and Avhite spots and streaks of the forcAving; only the AA'hite sid)ter- 
minal line and fuscous terminal marks continuoxxs. C'ape Colony. 
Ps. oncodogramma Prout (14 b). Spots of the foreAA'ing larger and less numerous, differently formed. 
The tyjxe $ came from Pilgrim's Rest, Transvaal. I knoAA- also of from Durban and RietAdei (Natal), 
bxit it remains A^ery scarce. 
Ps. bivirgata Feld. (14 b). Again Amry distinct, the markings simpler, but the postmedian broad and 
curiously bent. Cape Colony, the type from Knysna. 
Ps. anguinata Feld. (14 b). Very similar to bivirgata, the postmedian less extreme, the antemedian 
quite differently formed, a large cell-dot on foreAA'ing. Knysna; if it should proA'e to be a remarkable aber¬ 
ration of the preceding, I propose to retain the better-knoAA'n name bivirgata, AA'hich represents the more normal 
form; both names Avere published simultaneously. 
Ps. tricolor Warr. (13 b). Antennal pectinations of A very long. A gay species, the only knoAvn 
Pseudomaenas Avith a rosy admixture in the ground-coloxir. Natal: Weenen (the type), Karkloof and RietAdei. 
