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$ t Forewing ochreous, suffused with pearly white and striated with 

 ferruginous, the striations coalescing on the discocellulars and below 

 the end of the cell also beyond the postmedial line towards the pos- 

 terior angle. The thorax and forewing clothed with large flattened 

 scales. Forewing with a pale subbasal line ; an antemedial whitish 

 line oblique to just below the origin of vein 2 whence it is waved to 

 the centre of the inner margin, this line as well as the basal portion of 

 vein 2 is defined outwardly with dark brown ; a black patch at each 

 angle of the cell ; a sinuous postmedial whitish line defined outwardly 

 with ferruginous ; a submarginal series of dark patches of scales below 

 veins 2, 3, 4 and 5. Cilia long and ferruginous, extending along the 

 inner as well as the outer margin. Abdomen and hindwing pale, the 

 outer area of the latter broadly fuscous. Retinaculum bar-shaped. 



9. Differs from the male in being less ferruginous, the brown 

 striations being of a warmer tint. There is also a large gold lunate 

 spot on the discocellulars generally with a small gold spot attached at 

 its centre outwardly and a dark spot at its lower extremity. The 

 antemedial line is continued in its obliquity to the margin, meeting 

 the latter just before the origin of the postmedial line ; there is no dark 

 definition of vein 2. The antennae are minutely ciliate towards the 

 ends. Underside of both sexes with an oval buff discocellular spot 

 and broad marginal buff band on both vxings, the ground colour being 

 fuscous. 



Habitat.— Sikhim 1,800 ft. Bhutan 2,500 ft. Exp. Male 40-43 

 mill. Female 44-48 mill. 



The male is somewhat similar to P, striatum, Moore, from the 

 description, but is much larger and has the antennse fasciculate. The 

 "female is somewhat like P. episcopalis, Swinh., but has crenulated 

 cilia to the forewings and the metallic spot gold and smaller. 



Described from four males and five females in my collection. 



Sarrothropesle. 



Barasa costalis, Dudgeon in Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1895, 

 p. 305 ; Dudgeon Jour. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XIII, p. 268, 

 pi. Ill, fig. 29. Sikhim ; Bhutan, 1,800-2,500 ft. Type in coll. Dudgn. 



FOCILMSLE. 



Zethes macaviata, Dudgeon in Hmpsn. Jour. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 Vol. XIV, p. 216. Sikhim, 1,800 ft. Type in B. M. coll. 

 This species superficially resembles a Macaria in markings. 



