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Donovan's figure of P. flescuosa (Brit. Ins. xii. p. 53, pi. 4.12); the latter is certainly not the 

 Linncan species, but is probably intended to represent the species subsequently named 

 P. pulchrina by Ilaworth. 



Walker's P. circumflexd is that of Freyer, and is the P. gutta of Guence, of which 

 P. virgo, Motsch., is the Japanese representative. 



HOMOPTEBJD^. 



BRIARDA, Walk. 

 Briarda decens. (Plate CX. fig. C.) 

 (S 2 . Briarda decens, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1008. n. 1 (1857). 



Primaries above whity brown, crossed by numerous, parallel, dentate-sinuate, grey-brown 

 lines ; a broad angular belt of black-brown near the base, its inner edge diffused, its outer 

 edge undulated and margined with white ; an ill-defined, irregular, black-edged grey- 

 brown band across the middle ; a truncated, subcuneiform, costal, subapical, smoky brown 

 patch varied with whitish: secondaries pale sandy brownish, the external two fifths pale 

 fuliginous brown, interrupted near the anal angle by two or three zigzag, abbreviated, whitish 

 lines extending from the outer margin upwards towards the apex : pectus whity brown ; head 

 and collar darker sandy brown ; a squamose blackish line along the posterior margins of the 

 tegulse; abdomen with greyish dorsal tufts. Under suface pale yellowish brown or sordid 

 testaceous : the secondaries whitish, with a broad greyish-brown discal belt near outer 

 margin: primaries with the apical area clouded with greyish brown; all the wings with 

 slender, dusky, marginal line and blackish dots between the veins: tarsi barred with black. 

 Expanse of wings 45 millim. 



North India (James) ; Ceylon (Thwaltes). 



Briarda precedens. (Plate CX. fig. 7.) 



2 . Briarda precedens, Walker, Cat. Lep. Set. xiii. p. 1098. n. 2 (1857). 

 cf . Briarda antecedent, Walker, I.e. p. 1090. n. 3 (1857). 



Primaries whity brown, crossed by numerous, parallel, zigzag, darker reddish-brown 

 lines; the external area suffused with brown, darker than the ground-colour, so as to render 

 these lines indistinct ; a dark-brown costal patch at base, on which the zigzag lines are black ; 

 a broad, oblique, truncated wedge-shaped patch from the costa almost to the first median 

 branch, and enclosing two or three minute white spots ; a nearly crescent-shaped subapical 

 spot with dentated inner edge, a trisinuated line alone separating it from a small bifid apical 

 spot in the female, though in the male these two spots are confluent, and a diffused streak 

 forming a kind of continuation to the wedge-shaped patch, dark brown ; a blackish spot near 

 base of inner margin ; a series of black dots attached to pale dots along the outer margin : 



