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along costa and base, with dark median and outer lines the latter followed by a dark band; the species in 

 contour of wings approaches Zethes, both wings having the termen strongly bent at vein 4. Japan. 



P. textilis Leech (71 g). Forewing ochreons white powdered with brown; lines brown; inner twice textilis. 

 curved outwards ; outer and middle close together, both strongly angled outwards in middle; a dark streak from 

 the angle to termen at angle of wing ; subterminal line white, interrupted ; reniform stigma white with brown 

 centre; orbicular a pale ring; hindwing with brown inner and outer lines, the latter bent at middle; cell 

 mark as in forewing; fringe yellowish with black basal and middle lines. Throughout China and in Corea. 



P. albistigma Hmps. (71 h). Smaller than textilis; forewing ochreous white, the basal and terminal albisiigma. 

 areas suffused with brownish grey, darkest and greyest at anal angle of forewing; median and outer lines 

 curved, not angled; orbicular stigma a black dot instead of a pale ring; reniform wider, touching median line ; 

 subterminal line with two white lunules beneath costa and two yellowish ones below them ; all the markings 

 blurred below middle; hind whig brown between outer and subterminal lines, the latter deeply dentate; ter- 

 minal area ochreous. Leech records an example from Changyang, Central China; Hampson's type was from 

 the Khasia Hills, 



P. porphyrea Btlr. (71 h). Forewing dark purplish slate colour; inner and outer lines pale, fine; the porphyrea. 

 inner curved, the outer crenulate, excurved round cell; space between them purplish with darker bands along 

 each line; orbicular stigma a dull yellow black-edged oval spot; the reniform obscure with black inner edge; 

 subterminal line zigzag, white below costa, then grey, interrupted altogether by the dull black suffusion between 

 reins 2 and 4; a grey spot at apex; a yellowish grey costal suffusion beyond outer line; fringe whitish mot- 

 tled with dark; hindwing with basal half blackish, limited by a crenulate line angled in middle; submarginal 

 yellower, sharply dentate. Yokohama, Japan. 



P. similistigma spec. nov. (71 h). Forewing dull brown, tinged with grey; the markings dark fuscous; similistig- 

 basal area fuscous; inner line obliquely curved, followed by a black interrupted shade; median and outer ma - 

 lines near together and parallel, strongly sinuous, excurved above beyond cell and incurved on submedian fold; 

 the outer edged with paler; space between them brown; subterminal line obscure, whitish, dentate above 

 middle, curved below, plainest at inner margin, followed by indistinct black dashes; orbicular stigma a round 

 diffuse brown spot; reniform a black lunule with hyaline white on each side; a dark crenulate terminal line; 

 fringe brown ; hindwing dark fuscous to outer line which is angled on vein 4 and edged with pale grey ; sub- 

 terminal line dentate preceded by irregular black markings above middle, curved and preceded by a black 

 band below; terminal area tinged with bright brown, grey at apex; reniform stigma like that of forewing; under- 

 side whitish dusted with grey; the terminal half brownish grey; a brown median line in both wings and two 

 subtermmal dark shades in hindwing; the discal lunules expressed; head, thorax, and abdomen grey brown. 

 1 $ marked simply China. 



P. amphidecta Btlr. (71 h). Forewing fawn colour tinged with darker; reniform stigma brown, constrict- amphidecta. 

 ed in middle, with two hyaline white spots before it and a large white lunule beyond it; a large brownish 

 fuscous triangle on outer half of costa, the apex reaching vein 4; subbasal and inner lines brown, strongest 

 above middle; outer line strongly bent outwards below costa and edged with bluish scales, then lunulate 

 dentate, incurved below middle; median brown shade strongly marked; subterminal line marked only by the 

 difference between the paler ground colour and the darker brown termen; black terminal dots; hindwing 

 with cell mark of brown dots marked with white; a brown median shade below it; outer line lunulate dentate, 

 marked with white scales below middle. Japan. Termen of both wings strongly crenulate below middle, con- 

 cave between apex and middle tooth. 



P. vasava Btlr. (= incisa Stgr.) (71 h). Forewing blackish in basal half, with some lighter shading vasava. 

 and lines ; in outer hah uniform brownish grey, through which the pale subterminal line is just visible ; inner 

 line pale, bent at middle, followed by a violet grey shade; reniform stigma hardly visible; before the slightly 

 dentate outer line a dark shade forming a band, followed on costa by a triangular violet grey blotch ; hind- 

 wing with basal half blackish, discal mark formed of four white spots grouped round the dark discocellular ; 

 inner and outer lines dark; in the middle of the light edging of the outer line a small triangular black spot. 

 Amurland, Japan, and Yesso. 



P. flavomacula Stgr. (71 h). Forewing violet grey, darker terminally and mixed with some yellow ; flavomacula. 



