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P. ochreata Walk. ( = comucopiae Snell.). Forewing grey brown, tinged with golden coppery only ochreata. 

 towards apex: the subcellular mark a long fuscous and pale straight streak in a line with the orbicular 

 stigma, running to outer line at vein 2, somewhat as in albostriata Brem. and Ore//; inner and outer lines 

 erecl as in pyropia, the outer sinuous. Japan, Corea, E. China; the species occurs also throughout India, 

 in Ceylon, Formosa, and Celebes. 



P. purissima Btlr. (= tetragona Leech nee Walk) (65c). Forewing pale ashy grey, slightly tinged pwissima. 

 with lilac; lines dark olive brown, conversely pale-edged; inner line oblique outwards to median vein, ils 

 lower half oblique inwards much nearer base, edged with silvery white; outer line straight and oblique from 

 below costa to inner margin; median area below middle filled in with olive fuscous; on vein 2 a short 

 narrow silvery streak, followed by a longer oval one; reniform stigma represented by a horizontal olive 

 fuscous dash above the median vein, followed by a pale space; subterminal line nearly straight, with a fainl 

 indentation at middle, accompanied by olive suffusion; a purplish line before termen from apex to vein 3; 

 hindwing brownish fuscous, with traces of two darker lines. Japan, Kiushiu, Corea, Central and Western 

 China. This species closely resembles the Indian tetragona Walk, but shows appreciable differences. 



P. tancrei Stgr. (65c). Forewing pale olive grey: (he lines and shadings darker; inner and outer tancrei. 

 lines double, filled in with white; the inner blackish, waved and curved below middle; the outer browner, 

 oblique, followed by a white band broadening to costa. and beyond it a fuscous band with dark edges, 

 broadening to inner margin, its outer edge flexuous, limited by the subterminal line; a white line from apex 

 before the terminal line; orbicular stigma grey with pale edges; reniform fuscous with black outline; a bluntly 

 loothshaped white blotch below median vein with silvery edges; hindwing dark fuscous, with slightly pale 

 base showing a dark outer line; fringe whitish. Known from Tibet only. 



P. bella Christ. (65k). Forewing pale ochreous grey; the lines white; the inner plainest below middle, bella. 

 angled outwards on submedian fold; the outer oblique, irregularly crenulate, edged with dark below middle 

 and with white below costa; stigmata dark brown with white outlines, conversely oblique; the gamma-mark 

 white, with a broad tail; subterminal line white, irregularly crenulate, with a strong indentation on both 

 folds, and preceded by dark scaling; a row of dark terminal lunules preceded by white scales; fringe mottled, 

 white and pale brown; hindwing fuscous. Turkestan. 



P. Jessica Btlr. (65 c). Forewing dark purplish grey, deepest in the lower half of the median area Jessica. 

 and the praesubterminal shade; stigmata dark, with pale edges, conversely oblique; median vein pale; inner 

 line below middle only white, inwardly oblique, with a curve in middle; outer line irregularly crenulate, 

 inwardly oblique, and indented on submedian fold; the gamma mark complete, white, concise, the tail parallel 

 to the median vein: hindwing fuscous; the form serena Btlr. represents the deeper tinted specimens. Japan- ser&na. 



P. v-minus Oberih. (65 c). Very much like gamma, but with the silvery mark characteristic of that v-mhius. 

 species reduced to a slender v, the tail not being represented at all. Described from a single specimen from 

 Sidemi, Amurland. 



P. accentifera Lef. {= L. aureum Frr., hieroglyphica Frr., L. album Hbn.-G.) (65 c). Forewing dull accentifera. 

 pinkish grey dusted with darker, and with irregular olive brown patches; lines pale; inconspicuous; the inner 

 oblique outwards to median vein, then waved inwards, followed by brown patches ; outer line lunulate, between 

 two brown shades, interrupted below middle by a large brown blotch; a brown blotch from apex, a triangular 

 one below middle of termen, and some small patches along subterminal line, which bears a black white-edged 

 tooth between veins 2 and 3; the mark below median inconspicuous, yellowish grey, laterally finely edged 

 with silvery, oblique and parallel ; hindwing brownish, with dark outer line and broad smoky fuscous border. 

 Larva green, with white dorsal and double white subdorsal lines; spiracular white, less conspicuous in front, 

 yellower behind; tubercles black with long hairs; feeds on Mentha. A South Enropean insect, found in Spain. 

 Portugal, Piedmont, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, and Syria. 



P. rutilifrons Walk. (= argenteoguttata Pouj.) (65c). Forewing olive grey with darker grey clouds; rutilifrons. 

 the submedian interval in median area, and space before outer line, also the middle of terminal area shaded 

 with deep reddish ferruginous; inner line angled outwards on subcostal vein, then oblique to median, there 

 sharply angled outwards again, and oblique and silvery to inner margin: outer line slightly sinuous, dark 

 edged with paler, below the middle with silvery; median area below median vein deep chesnut; on vein 2 a 

 silvery white loop followed by a round white spot, much as in chalcytes, but smaller; reniform stigma an 

 oblique figure of 8, with darker edges; subterminal line twice indented, preceded by a dark shade; the 

 ferruginous and fuscous shade beyond it edged by a straight white line from vein 8 to 3, with a paler patch 

 at apex and anal angle; hindwing fuscous. North China, Amurland, Japan, and Yesso. 



