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and in cell; a slight pale space along termen before the line black terminal line; hindwing fuscous, with 



darker cellspot, veins, outer line, and terminal border; fumifera Graes. is a duller, more clouded, form from fumifera. 



Amurland. The type form is found in Japan and Kiushiu, as well as in India, and the islands to Australia. 



Larva green, with black lateral spots; conspicuous white subdorsal and lateral waved lines; the dorsum is 



said to be armed with short black pointed spines, stoutest on the middle segments and on the 11"'; feeding 



on Cucurb i t aceae. 



P. hebetata Bt/r. (65h). Differs from peponis F. (64g) in being suffused with rosy pink; the outer line hebetata. 

 nearly straight; the subterminal irregularly dentate, with a coppery patch beyond it; hindwing brownish 

 fuscous. Occurs in Japan and Corea as well as in N. India. 



P. orichalcea F. (= chrysitina Martin, aurifera Hbn.) (64 g). Forewing grey brown at base, along orichalcea. 

 inner margin, and along costa to near subterminal line ; the rest of the wing brassy green with brown striae ; 

 the inner line finely pale lustrous grey, inwardly waved below middle, outwardly oblique above; outer line 

 pale brown, indistinct, oblique below costa and insinuate from above vein 5 to above vein 2, forming the 

 edge of the brown costal area; below vein 3 the brassy area runs inwards as a wedge shaped mark along 

 vein 2 to touch inner line; subterminal line brown, fine, lunulate dentate; the veins brownish before the 

 narrow dark brown terminal area; fringe brown with two or three waved brown lines through it; stigmata 

 finely edged with grey; the orbicular short and rounded; the reniform much constricted at middle; hindwing 

 with basal area dull luteous, the costal area shining whitish, separated by a brown line from base through 

 the dark cellspot; terminal area broadly deep fuscous, preceded by a crennlate brown outer line. Occurs in 

 Morocco and Algeria, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Madeira, Spain, S. France ; in Kashmir, throughout India 

 and the Malay Islands: the few taken on the south coast of England were only stragglers. Larva bluish 

 green, with a few short dorsal hairs; slender dorsal white lines, and a prominent lateral line; feeding 

 on Coreopsis. 



P. chalcytes Esp. (=? quaestionis F., bengalensis Rossi, chalsytis Hbn.) (64 g, h). Forewing earth chalcytes. 

 brown, with a faint purplish gloss, shaded in parts with rich brown, and below median and along subterminal 

 area washed with brassy yellow: inner line pale, outwardly edged with deep brown, oblique outwards to 

 median vein, along which it is retracted basewards, then sinuous and oblique to inner margin; the basal 

 area deep brown, the subbasal line edged with brassy; outer line running outwards parallel to costa, then 

 double, incurved between veins 7 and 4, and strongly indented on submedian fold, the inner arm thik, deep 

 brown and faintly crenulate: reniform stigma large, oblique, obscured by a dark median shade; at base of 

 vein 2 an oblique silvery loop with yellow centre, followed by a silvery drop; subterminal line indistinct, 

 more or less obscured by a dark submarginal shade, the edge of which is straight from before apex to end 

 of vein 3; the extreme termen and fringe of the ground colour; a black spot in fringe beyond vein 4; a round 

 brassy yellow spot at anal angle; hindwing brownish, with the veins blackish; terminal border smoky 

 blackish; fringe pale with a black middle line, swollen beyond each vein; in the ab. cohaerens Schultz the cohaerens. 

 u-shaped stigma is conjoined to the spot. Larva like that of gamma, pale yellow green, with broad white 

 lateral stripes; spiracles black; tubercles white; head green edged with black; feeds on various low plants. 

 Found in S. Europe, except Russia, in Asia Minor, and Syria. 



P. eriosoma Dbld. (=== verticillata Guen., integra Walk., adjuncta Walk., dinawa Beth.-Baker) (64 h). eriosoma. 

 Closely related to chalcytes Esp., but without, or with much less of, the golden gloss of that species; the 

 abdomen of the d" with the anal tufts black beneath and laterally; these black scales vary much both in 

 quantity and plainness; they probably are rubbed off during copulation, but, in fact, they are most strongly 

 developed in the Indian forms and least of all in New Zealand, whence eriosoma was described; the golden 

 gloss is rarely of any extent except in examples from the Solomon Islands; — a much rarer form occurs, — 

 ab. illuminata ab. nov., in which the ground colour is pale pearly grey, especially conspicuous beyond outer illuminata. 

 line in the costal half of wing: these examples are rather larger than the average, and generally cfcf, with 

 the anal tufts well developed. The species, which occurs in Africa, is found throughout India, the Malay Is- 

 lands, to Australia and New Zealand; it is recorded by Leech from China and Japan. Larva green, palest on 

 dorsum; the lines paler but indistinct; feeding on Ficus. 



P. agnata Stgr. (= signata Leech nee F) (64 h). Forewing smaller than eriosoma, olive brown, without agnata. 

 any golden gloss; the silvery marks smaller and finer; otherwise marked much as in eriosoma; the anal tuft 

 in <? without the black hairs; hind tibiae of ■? thickly fringed with ochreous hairs ending in a point, as in 

 P. aeneofusa Swinh. Appears plentiful in Japan and Corea: also from Amurland. 



P. purpureofusa Hmps. (64h). Forewing like nigrisigna, but suffused with purple and larger; the purpureo- 

 lines red brown; the inner angled on subcostal vein: the outer double, also angled below costa, and not 

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