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on radial nervules, thence widening and slanting inwardly as far 

 as submedian nervure ; at median nervure, on each side of its 

 second nervule, a good-sized terminal discocellular ochre-yellow 

 spot, subquadrate, is completely confluent with inner edge of discal 

 band ; below submedian nervure a very pale yellowish longitudinal 

 streak from base meets termination of discal band. Hind wing : 

 discal band obliquely-transverse, broad, indented irregularly on 

 both edges, beginning abruptly on 2nd subcostal nervule with its 

 outer edge very near hind margin, and ending above submedian 

 nervure not far beyond middle ; a longitudinal yellowish ray from 

 base to hind margin, below submedian nervure, set with yellowish 

 hairs ; in discoidal cell a sparse clothing of yellowish hairs. Cilia 

 broad, ochre-yellow, tinged with ferruginous in fore wing. 

 Underside. — Hind wing and apical hind-marginal border of fore 

 wing dull pale ochre-yellow ivith a tinge of olivaceous brown ; the 

 former with a submargiual series of more or less reddish spots with 

 dark edges. Fore wing : ground-colour pale ochre-yellow, fading 

 into dull creamy towards inner margin ; from base a broad black 

 longitudinal stripe, traversed by median nervure and a small part of 

 its first nervule, abruptly truncate before middle ; at a little distance 

 beyond termination of this stripe, and immediately beyond extre- 

 mity of discoidal cell, an equally conspicuous wedge-shaped black 

 marking narrowed outwardly, between first radial and 3rd median 

 nervules ; upper part of discal band of upperside indicated by thin 

 interrupted fuscous edging lines, of which the long outer series 

 defines the inner edge of the hind-marginal border as far as the 

 2nd median nervule, beneath which it abruptly expands into a 

 broad fuscous or black marking extending to hind margin and 

 (diffusedly) to posterior angle. Hind iving : submarginai series 

 consisting of five spots, of which the first, between costal nervure 

 and 1st subcostal nervule, is remote from the rest, which lie con- 

 tiguously in an almost straight line between 2nd subcostal nervule 

 and submedian nervure ; these spots vary in their distinctness of 

 tint from that of the ground-colour, are elongate-ovate, and are 

 fuscous-edged both internally and externally without being com- 

 pletely ringed ; a similar spot at extremity of cell, a less distinct 

 one immediately below it, and a small subbasal fuscous spot 

 between costal and subcostal nervures ; at extremity of inner mar- 

 ginal fold, close to anal angle, a darker cloud, faint in two examples, 

 but in the other two fuscous and conspicuous. 



2 • Like male, but with the discal bands broader. Underside. — 

 Rather paler, with the black markings of the fore wing not so 

 strongly developed. 



This species most resembles P. morantii, Trim., on the upperside, 

 but on the underside of the fore wings exhibits a remarkable like- 

 ness to the darker examples of P. harona, Westw., in the black 

 markings ; while the underside of the hind wings is altogether 

 different from that of either of those species. The only palpus 

 (that of a female) remaining shows the 3rd joint to be as in 

 P. harona, long, slender, and erect. 



