PSEUDOCLANIS; PLATYSPHINX. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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margin and three green transverse lines. Cameroon. — The race from Sierra Leone, bainbridgei R. & .J . is bainbridgei. 
distinguished by greyer transverse lines in the forewing, a pale band across the cross-vein, a small red basal 
dot at the inner margin. In the hindwing the costal margin is creamy white, beneath only with 2 transverse lines. 
L. punc turn Rothsch. Allied to L. bicolor , forewing tan-coloured, a thin blackish line from the apex to punctum. 
vein 4, a distinct blackish-brown dot below the costal margin, about 6 mm distant from the apex. Apex pointed, 
the margin below it somewhat indented; inner margin at the base pink. Hindwing pink, the lightest below 
the cell, anal margin cream-coloured, tornus shaded with cinnamon-brown. Forewing beneath with a central- 
basal pink colouring, the slanting apical line, though not the dot distinct. Expanse 70 mm. Mashonaland. 
L. major R. & J. (62 a) has broader wings than L. bicolor and punctum, with a dot below the costal major. 
margin of the forewing before the apex. Forewing brownish, paler than the thorax, shaded with purple grey, 
with two antemedian parallel transverse lines which ai*e more slanting than in bicolor. A stripe from the apex 
to vein 4, an indistinct double line from distally to the lower cell-angle to the inner margin, a similar one more 
towards the margin. Marginal area shaded with purple grey, except in the posterior portion which is more 
cinnamon-brown. The subapical dot is proximad shaded with purple grey. Distal margin below the apex 
concave, then convex. Hindwing reddish cinnamon-coloured, anal margin tan-coloured. Beneath yellowish 
tan-coloured; basal half in the forewing and anal margin of hindwing reddish cinnamon-brown, distal area of 
forewing grey and shaded with blackish, apex with a blackish costal-marginal cloud, both wings with 2 shortened 
discal lines. Expanse: 100—120 mm. Sierra Leone. 
L. vicina R. & J . (62 b). Separated from major by narrower wings and a longer cell (in the forewing vicina. 
as long as, in the hindwing longer than vein 4). Margin of forewing less convex, that of hindwing quite straight, 
edged with blackish tan-colour. A smaller species. Expanse up to 80 mm. Nigeria, Congo. 
L. metria Jord. differs from vicina in the margin of the forewing not being concave below the apex, mctria. 
the slanting line from the apex being absent, with brownish ochreous fringes. Hindwing carmine, anal margin 
and part of the distal margin pale brownish-white. Expanse 75 mm. Rhodesia. 
L. hollandi Clark (62 b). Forewing with a produced apex as in karschi ; wood-coloured brown with a hollandi. 
lighter shading, basal half light red-brown which colour extends at the inner margin almost to the tornus. 
From the apex a dark line proceeds, being sharply angular on vein 5 and extending to vein 4. Cross-vein with 
a black stigma. In the discal area 2 indistinct darker transverse lines. Hindwing dark wood-coloured, anal 
margin broad pink. In the forewing beneath the line from the apex is prolonged to vein 2; in the hindwing 
beneath likewise] a dark streak from the apex. Expanse : 115 mm. (This species may be the $ of Pliylloxiphia 
oberthueri R. & J. ?). 
20. Genus: Psemloclaiiis Rothsch. 
Middle tibiae with thorns, hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs; paronychium, pulvillus and frenulum present. 
Hindwing yellow, reddish, or pinkish-grey with a large black basal spot. 
Ps. grandidieri Mab. (= watersi Btlr., semnus Karsch ) (62 c). Forewing lighter or darker pinkish-grey, grandidieri. 
with a dark dot near the base, a narrower and a broader antemedian band, a discal and postdiscal band darker, 
a darker stigma and marginal area. Hindwing pinkish-grey, with a black basal spot and a black postdiscal 
band. Madagascar. — In com or an a R. <£• J. the ajrex of the forewing is less falciform, and it shows blackish comorana. 
submarginal vein-spots. In the hindwing the black band is more proximal, narrower than the marginal area, 
indented by the veins. Comoro Is. 
Ps. postica Wkr. (62 c). Forewing varying between very light and dark brownish olive, with or without postica. 
darker transverse lines. Hindwing yellow, with a narrow black transverse stripe and a black basal spot. In 
the nomenclatural race the distal margin of the forewing is in both sexes somewhat convex between the veins 2 
and 6; the postdiscal band of the hindwing is mostly interrupted, sometimes only composed of dots. Cape and 
East Africa. — The form pallida Closs has quite pale unmarked forewings with but a small dot before the apex, pallida. 
and a very much reduced band on the hindwing. — In Abyssinia flies abyssinicus Lucas (= bianchii Obtlir.) abyssinicus. 
with thinner and more distinct lines of the forewing. — In occidentalis R. & J . the margin of the forewing is occidentalis. 
convex only in the $, in the £ quite straight, the black band of the hindwing mostly complete. Sierra Leone 
to Congo. — In diana Gehlen the forewing above is Reseda-green, distally olive green; inner margin broad diana. 
brownish pink. Hinclwing above of a brighter orange, abdominal area brownish-pink, at the distal margin 
above the tornus a green spot. Windhook, German South-West Africa. — Larva yellowish-green, head on 
each side with a vertical light yellow streak. Body with a yellowish dorsal and subdorsal line; beginning from 
the 4th segment with a yellow oblique streak on each segment. Stigmata light blue. Horn rather long, slightly 
curved backward. The imago is said to be able to produce a sound similar to that of the death's head moth. 
21. Genus: Platysplslux R. u. J. 
Hind tibiae with but 1 pair of spurs, middle tibiae with thorns, anterior tibiae not terminating in a 
thorn, apex of forewing not produced. 
P. constrigilis Wkr. (62 d). Forewing olive green, darker are inside the antemedian and median lines, constrigilis. 
the latter very oblique, uniting with a broader discal band, a postdiscal undulate line. Between vein 2 and 3 
