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} a frontal whitish tuft, and six or eight indistinct whitish spots on each 
I side ; legs black, the femora and tibia3 outwardly whitish-scaled. Abdo- 
!' men black above, dull greyish-brown on the sides and beneath, witli 
two lower lateral series of minute white spots, sometimes scarcely 
visible. 
Sj. Black duller, more sooty tlicui in $ ; stripe and spots much didler 
.! and paler, more greenish, scarcely metallic. Fore-wing : median stripe 
\ always tvidened (and sometimes very much wider) on inner margin, 
. instead of being narrowed there, as in ^, — its general width variable ; 
, often a third very small spot under the second sub-apical one, and 
. sometimes a more or less incomplete submarginal series of similar 
small spots divided by inter-nervular folds ; hind-marginal series of 
■ minute spots often mixed with whitish and touching white interruptions 
of cilia. Hind-wing : beginning of median stripe little if at all narrower 
I than the rest, and near costa dull-greyish ; its edges somewhat diffused, 
jl and its lower extremity narrowly prolonged to a point just above anal- 
angular white lunule ; an inner-marginal spot as on under side of 
i but smaller and greenish, and sometimes touching median stripe ; sub- 
] marginal spots larger, and so shaped that each pair below second sub- 
, costal nervule forms a strongly-curved crescent with the points more 
or less prolonged. Under side. — Hind-iving and. apical hind-marginal 
area of fore-wing of a paler, more rufous hrown than in %cith the 
; shining piale-greyish fascia and clouding ahvays strongly developed, and in 
'parts quite luhitish ; inter-nervular hind-marginal small paired whitish 
• spots better developed in fore-wing, and also present (and larger) in 
' hind-wing, except (usually) between radial and second median ner- 
vules. Fore-wing: costal pale clouding broadly developed, almost 
silvery, completed, confluent on radial nervules (so as to isolate a small 
brown costal space), and thence extending downward in a much- 
i narrowed submarginal ray, becoming macular and whitish below third 
median nervule. Hind-iving : basal reddish-ochreous much more deve- 
' loped, extending over all the area as far as median shining-greyish 
fascia ; submarginal stripe very different from that of being expanded 
into a wide shining-grey band, bright and silvery superiorly, but becom- 
ing more or less indistinct and diffused between third and first median 
nervules ; a little before this band, and at points touching it, a more or 
less connected series of shining-greyish lunular marks, often indistinct. 
I White spots of head and body more apparent than in especially 
the abdominal lateral spots. 
M. C. Oberthiir notes two aberrant $ s from Shoa, Abyssinia, and 
another from Tchouacka in Zanguebar, in which the upper-side stripe 
was almost entirely obliterated in the fore-wings, and sensibly reduced 
m the hind- wings. His doubtful reference of this aberration to P. 
pseitdonireus, Feld. (founded on a single ^ from Bogos), seems borne 
out by Felder's description ^ of his type, in which, however, the band 
^ Reisc dcr Novara, ZooJ., Lcj^., i. p. 94 (1S64). 
