102 PTYCHOPODA. By L. B. Protjt. 



vague dark shading posteriorly to it. Hindwing slightly bent at 3. radial. Under surface slightly paler, the 

 line better marked, the distal border narrower and paler. Moupin in July. Very similar to Chrysocraspeda 

 marginata Stvinh., which however, although it will require generic separation from true Chrysocraspeda, differs 

 from proximaria in the absence of the areole and is also smaller with less acute apex of forewing. ^ antenna 

 with moderate ciliation; hindtibia dilated, with strong hair pencil; hindtarsus much broadened and flattened. 

 $ unknown, so that the generic position is not quite certam, but an apparently very close relationship, both 

 'superficially and structurally, to Ft. protensa Btl. and the Australian Pt. coercita. T. P. Luc. gives us full con- 

 fidence in referring it here. 



■protensa. Pt. protensa 5iZf. (7 c) is much smaller than proxima»"ia, the fore whig more produced apically, the distal 



margin faintly concave in the anterior half. The antemedian Ime of the forewing is present, though fme, and 

 both wings show a moderately thick median shade, that of the forewmg touching the cell-spot, that of the 

 hindwmg considerable before (proximal to) it; the postmedian is slender, not broken up into dots, outcurved 

 from costal margin to first radial, there angled and thence rather near the distal margin, sinuous; the dark 

 distal-marginal line on the forewing is accompanied proximally by small irregular spots or suffusion. Beneath 

 similar, with a slight dark suffusion in the basal part of the forewing. The vertex of the head is white, 

 while in proximaria it is concolorous with the wings. Hmdtarsus abbreviated, its first joint broadened and 

 flattened. The only specimens known to me are 2 ^(^ from Dharmsala (type and cotjrpe) and a '^ from 

 Simla (taken in August,' at above 2000 m elevation). \ p|- 1 lii p? | , , , 



ampUpen- Pt. amplipeniiis 5^?r. (7 c) is similarly coloured and marked to p-o<e?isa, so similar, indeed, that Butler 



n'is. determined a rather worn $ as "protensa ?" The (^, however, is extraordinarily different in shape, the 

 forewing having developed an enormous lobe on the posterior margin, which increases the width of the wing 

 by nearly one-half. In both sexes the distal margin of the hindwing is less strongly convex than m protensa. 

 The (J is of a brighter yellowish ochreous tone than the two preceding, especially on the forewing. Ante- 

 median line weak, median shade wantmg, postmedian in the (J strongly waved, in both sexes forming a deep 

 sinus proximad in the submedian area. The dark distal shading is more diffused throughout the distal area 

 of the forewing (especially in the $) and the hindwing is also strongly dusted in its distal area. Dharmsala; 

 I have seen only the type ^ and the single $ which is referred here by Hampson. 



'impe.ra. Pt. impexa B<?r. (7 c) is a small species, though normally a little larger thein fiielseni, with which it has 



something in common. Glossy light yellowish brown with a slight reddish tinge, the costal margin of the 

 forewing reddish or purplish fuscous from the base to well beyond the middle, gradually becoming lighter. 

 Discal dots present but very small, usually not very strongly darkened. Lines almost entirely obsolete on 

 the upper surface, the commencement of median and postmedian often indicated by costal spots, the median 

 occasionally f amtly traceable as a curved I'eddish or greyish line ; a reddish brown or dull purplish band of rather 

 less than 1 mm breadth at the distal margin of both wings, touching the margin in the posterior half but re- 

 ceding from it slightly in the anterior, so as to leave a narrow space of the ground-colour beyond it. Fringes 

 light like the wings. Under surface rather paler, more strongly marked, the median shade and a fine, some- 

 what sinuous postmedian line usually rather well developed. Varies slightly in the width of the margmal 

 band, which occasionally widens anteriorly so as to obliterate the pale distal space, or curves somewhat so as 

 to rejoin the distal margua at the apex, o antenna with long fascicles of cilia; hindleg rather long and slender 

 but the tibia strongly clothed with hair. Smaller than jakirna, rather duller coloured, the distal band narrower 

 and much more uniform. Japan: distributed, Yokohama to Satsuma, May to the beginning of July; Szechuan: 

 Chungking, a small cJ 10 September, evidently of a second_brood. 



-jdkima. Pt. jakima Btlr. (5 b). Pale brownish ochreous, slightly dusted with pink scales, the costal margin 



of the forewing rather darker and more strongly mixed with pink; the inner and median lines pink, not very 

 distinct, the former (confined to the forewing) rather strongly curved, the latter on the hindwing placed well 

 proximally to the discal dot; postmedian line much darker, sinuate, placed rather near the distal margin 

 and standing on the proximal edge of a purplish border ; this border on the forewing contains remnants of 

 the ground-colour at the apex of the forewing and is mixed vfith. some olive-grey scales posteriorly, especially 

 towards the hinder angle; both wings with small blackish cell-dot. Under surface similar but rather duller 

 and more weakly marked, the pink and purplish replaced by greyish and including a suffusion in the basal 

 oblUeraria. half of the forewing. — In ab. obliteraria Leech the lines are obsolete on the upper surface, the purplish 

 distal border weaker and less definite. Described from a single $ taken on Satsuma in May. It has since been 

 recorded from other locaUties by Staudinger. jakima is distributed in Japan, Korea, the Ussuri district and 

 Central China, July to September. From the similarly (but rather more brightly) coloured ostrinaria Hbn. 



