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yellow; a curved yellow band on prothorax below tegulae, and another band 

 on lower part of prothorax anteriorly; mesopleura with a round red spot below 

 the wings, and an elongate yellow mark posteriorly lower down; metapleura 

 with a slender yellow mark; coxae yellow, the hind pair only so posteriorly, 

 otheiwise black; tiochanters pale yellowish; femora, tibiae and tarsi light 

 ferruginous, the tarsi blackened on last joint; tegulae light ferruginous; 

 wings clear, with dark piceous stigma and nervures, and cloud on anterior 

 wings as already described; abdomen robust, finely punctured; first tergite 

 with a large, somewhat T-shaped median yellow area, second with a very 

 broad apical band, third ferruginous apically, with an obscure interrupted 

 yellow band; the other segments mainly yellow with a median piceous band, 

 as in P. thwaitesii', first sternite with a very broad yellow band, but the margin 

 hyaline; second with a still broader band, interrupted in middle. 



Pulney Hill, South India, 3-6,000 feet altitude, May 10-31 

 1917 (P. S. Nathan). Ramakrishna Ayyar No. 3. 

 Type. Cat. No. 23451, U. S. N. M. 



Actual Date of publication, October 30, 1920. 



