26 Miss A. E. Prout on some 



anus, whicli has an oclireous dorsal tuft, at the extreme tip 

 blackisli, but without any sign o£ the black tuft beneath, 

 which is so noticeable in good specimens of chalcytes ; ventral 

 surface of abdomen a mingling of brown and ochreous 

 scales, darkened on anal segment but without long hair; 

 pectus and legs brown, the tarsi paler. 



Fore wing cupreous purple-brown, shot with gleaming 

 bronze-gold, the lines silvery-white, outlined in bronze or 

 brown ; subbasal excurved below costa, then undulating, to 

 fold ; antemedial excurved to SC, almost obsolete in cell, 

 inwardly oblique from M to hind margin ; a white medial 

 spot at about three-Hfths costa and traces of an oblique 

 medial line near middle of hind margin ; postmedial from 

 about two-thirds costa to hind margin near tornus, strongly 

 undulating, excurved below costa, incurved in cell, angled 

 outward on M^ and less strongly so on M^, angled inward to 

 a deep point (much more strongly so than in chalcytes) 

 in fold ; subterminal line formed by bronze shading on its 

 proximal side, straight from near apex to about SC^ between 

 which and R" it takes a deep outward curve, then straight 

 to distal margin just behind SM- ; black marginal spots 

 between the veins, those behind R~ and W" connected by 

 dark shading; the silvery-white stigma behind middle of 

 cell broken into two closely-approximated, almost round 

 spots ; fringe grey with a fine pale line at base, darker at 

 the veins. 



Hind wing creamy-white at base, shading into the broad 

 grey-brown distal border ; a brown lunule on DC^ and 

 DC^ ; traces of a postmedial line a little darker than the 

 border; fringe creamy- white, cheqviered with brown at the 

 veins on outer half. 



Underside of fore wing grey-brown, with a darker post- 

 medial line at about three-fifths and four white costal dots 

 between this and apex ; marginal spots indistinct ; fringe as 

 above. Hind wing as above, but with the postmedial line 

 marking a sharper division between the pale proximal and 

 dark distal areas and with the addition of a diffused dark 

 subterminal band, its distal edge sharply angled outward 

 on W. 



Goodenough Is., 2500-4000 ft., March 1913 {A. S. Meek), 

 type and 3 other ($ ^ . 



Probably nearest to P. chalcytes, Esp., but can be at once 

 distinguished by the more purple tone, the straight sub- 

 terminal and more deeply angled postmedial, and by the 

 larger marginal spots, as well as by the difference in the 

 lateral and anal tufts of abdomen and, especially, by the fans 

 of scarlet scales on collar. 



