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middle of disc at 1 / 6 of wing length ; two ill-defined purple-blue dots in fold 
at 3 / 5 and beyond middle of wing ; dark apical area of wing with a purple- 
bronze longitudinal streak in tornus and along lower part of termen. 
Cilia fuscous-black, around apex light yellow'. Hind wing with vein 3 
absent; blackish-bronze with brassy or purplish gloss, cilia blackish. 
Seventh sternite emarginate below, a group of strong bristles in middle. 
Limen, a broad lobe, bristled along edge. (Slide no. 1 109 D, holotype.) 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, March 6, 1939 (holotype). Lower Mist Camp, 
1400 — 1600 m, January 31, 1939. Three specimens. Very near to P. chalyb- 
astra Meyrick, from Java, differing in the following points: dorsum not 
suffused with yellow; supramedian metallic streak continuous; no con- 
tinuous black basal patch; posterior edge of yellow colour straight, not 
extended below as a narrow projection: instead of this, the purplish- 
bronze mark is present; apical cilia yellow (in chalybastra cilia entirely 
black). 
Agrioscelis Meyrick, 1913 
Agrioscelis Meyrick, 1913, Bxot. Microl., vol. 1, p. 96. Gener. Ins., fasc. 165, 
p. 14, 1915. Fletcher, Mem. Agrie. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 9, 1929. 
Agrioscelis erythracra spec. nov. (fig. 733) 
igu&QOQ = red, axQOV = margin 
18 mm. Head pale ochreous-golden with a suffused fuscous median 
spot on vertex, face whitish-golden, collar tinged pale pink. Antenna pale 
golden-ochreous, scape with an apical fulvous suffusion. Palpus golden- 
W'hitish, basal segment and base of upper edge of median infuscated. 
Thorax shining pale orange-brassy-golden, medianly duller, pale greyish- 
fuscous, tegula with a pale ochreous median transverse band. Abdomen 
whitish-ochreous. Legs golden-whitish, anterior leg narrowly blackish 
above, except the tarsus, tarsal segments with narrow dark apical rings; 
posterior tibia with brassy reflections, a thick fringe of light fuscous 
bristly scales from base to 2 / 3 , a violet-purple whorl of bristles at apex, 
basal segment of tarsus with a fulvous-violet basal and an apical ring. 
Fore wing with vein 3 absent, 7 and 8 stalked; narrowly lanceolate, base 
of dorsum rounded and prominent. Pale ochreous-greyish, becoming 
brighter ochreous towards apex, finely irrorated w'ith dark wine-red, this 
irroration becoming denser towards dorsum, so as to form dark irregular 
edges to dorsal markings; these are w'hite with golden gloss: a narrow 
marginal streak along base of dorsum; an outwardly oblique broad 
wedge-shaped spot with base on dorsum before 1 / 4 , terminated above by 
fold, and a semiovate spot on dorsum at middle of wing, reaching halfway 
across disc; both dorsal white spots suffused on base with orange; a faint 
orange suffusion from middle of base of wing, edging first basal white 
mark above; apex of wing tinged fulvous. Cilia whitish-fuscous, becoming 
