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a frontal whitish tuft, and six or eight indistinct whitish spots on eacli 

 side ; legs black, the femora and tibiiia outwardly whitish-scaled. Abdo- 

 men black above, dull greyish-brown on the sides and beneath, witli 

 two lower lateral series of minute white spots, sometimes scarcely 

 visible. 



$ Blade duller, more sooty than in ^ ; stripe and spots mueh duller 

 and paler, more greenish, scarcely metallic. Fore-ioing : median stripe 

 always widened (and sometimes very muck loider) on inner margin, 

 instead of being narrowed there, as in $, — its general width variable ; 

 often a third very small spot under the second sub-apical one, and 

 sometimes a more or less incomplete submarginal series of similar 

 small spots divided by inter-nervular folds ; hind-marginal series of 

 minute spots often mixed with whitish and touching white interruptions 

 of cilia. Hind-wing : beginning of median stripe little if at all narrower 

 than the rest, and near costa dull-greyish ; its edges somewhat diffused, 

 and its lower extremity narrowly prolonged to a point just above anal- 

 angular white lunule ; an inner-marginal spot as on under side of ^, 

 but smaller and greenish, and sometimes touching median stripe ; sub- 

 marginal spots larger, and so shaped that each pair below second sub- 

 costal nervule forms a strongly-curved crescent with the points more 

 or less prolonged. Under side. — Hind-wing and apical hind-marginal 

 area of fore-wing of a paler, more rvfous hroiV7i than in $, ^citk the 

 shining pale-greyish fascia and clouding always strongly developted, and in 

 imrts quite lahitish ; inter-nervular hind-marginal small paired whitish 

 spots better developed in fore-wing, and also present (and larger) in 

 hind-wing, except (usually) between radial and second median ner- 

 vules. Fore-icing: costal pale clouding broadly developed, almost 

 silvery, completed, confluent on radial nervules (so as to isolate a small 

 brown costal space), and thence extending downward in a much- 

 narrowed submarginal ray, becoming macular and whitish below third 

 median nervule. Hind-wing : basal reddish-ochreous much more deve- 

 loped, extending over all the area as far as median shining-greyish 

 fascia ; submarginal stripe very different from that of $, being expanded 

 into a wide shining-grey band, bright and silvery superiorly, but becom- 

 ing more or less indistinct and diffused between third and first median 

 nervules ; a little before this band, and at points touching it, a more or 

 less connected series of shining-greyish lunular marks, often indistinct. 



White spots of head and body more apparent than in $, especially 

 the abdominal lateral spots. 



M. C. Oberthiir notes two aberrant ^ s from Shoa, Abyssinia, and 

 another from Tchouacka in Zanguebar, in which the upper-side stripe 

 was almost entirely obliterated in the fore-wings, and sensibly reduced 

 in the hind-wings. His doubtful reference of this aberration to P. 

 jjseiidonircus, Feld. (founded on a single ^ from Bogos), seems borne 

 out by Felder's description ^ of his type, in which, however, the band 



' lieisc der Novara, Zoo!,, Lcp., i. p. 94 (1S64). 



