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C*. Central baud broad, umbreoiis, diverted into a longi- 

 tudinal strii)e wliich runs into the hind margin. 



r. vUdlhatd. 

 A-', Fore wings purple-brown, with a white discal spot. 



P. fiaviatu, female. 



1. P. fluviata, //»/). — Expanse % to 1 inch. Fore wings 

 narrow, rather jjointed ; male pale brown, with a slender 

 leaden-brown central band, and a similar streak running: 

 into the apex ; liind wings pale smoky-brown. Female, fore 

 wings dark purple-brown, with a round white discal spot ; 

 hind wings dark smoky-brown. 



Antenn;e of the male simple, but very densely ciliated, 

 light brown ; palpi slender, projecting, darlc Ijrown, the tips 

 white ; face, head, neck-ridge, and thorax light brown, dusted 

 witli white; abdomen reddish-brown, similarly dusted ; anal 

 tuft small. Fore wings rather narrow ; costa flatly arched; 

 apex angulated; hind margin verj- oblique, slightly curved, 

 as also is the dorsal margin ; pale brown or whitish-brown ; 

 basal line obscure, oblique, brown, the same colour partially 

 filling the basal blotch ; first line brown but faint, often 

 indicated by a white edging on the costa, oblique and some- 

 what straight ; close beyond it is a narrow, parallel, oblique, 

 leaden-brown central stripe or baud containing the discal 

 spot — a black dot in a whitish-brown ring — the outer edge 

 of this dark stripe is darker, sharjjly defined and angulated 

 below the costa ; beyond it are two faint brown parallel lines, 

 and then the normal second line, merely indicated in 

 umbreous crescents and edired with minute white dots: 

 beyond is the subtermiual line, of the same colour but even 

 more obscure, faintly dotted with white ; from it, above the 

 middle, a clouded smoky-black streak runs obliquely into tlie 

 tip of the wing; extreme hind margin dotted with black; 

 cilia pale brown. Hind wings broad, squared behind, pale 

 smoky-brown, shading in front towards white; before the 

 middle is a smoky-black transverse line, and a shading of the 



