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PTOCHOPHYLE. By L. B. Prout. 
lineata. Pt. lineata Warr. (16 i). Colour of tristicula and volutaria (or rather, as it lacks the tornal cloudings, 
of inornata and pulverulenta), intermediate in shape, the forewing almost as simple as in tristicula, the hindwing 
angled; cell-dots small, respectively black and white; postmedian line of fore wing rather strongly ex curved; 
fringes with dark dots at vein-ends; underside very feebly marked. Dili. Dutch Timor. 
nebuUfera. Pt. nebulifera Prout (16 i). Recognizable by the strongly gibbous distal margins and the very ample 
grey cloudings on the very pale buff ground-colour. Underside much less clouded, the forewing with a charact¬ 
eristic vinaceous costal border, which swells triangularly at the proximal side of the subterminal. British New 
Guinea, the type from Collingwood Bay. 
innotata. Pt. innotata Warr. (16 i). Very like a broad-winged, somewhat more warmly coloured lineata Warr., 
which may conceivably be a race of the same species. The type, a from Kiriwini which is the only example 
known from the Trobriand Islands, is unusually weakly marked, the upperside showing nothing definite ex¬ 
cepting the small white cell-dot of the hindwing, though the characteristic costal triangle (formed by the meeting 
of the highly oblique costal commencement of the postmedian line with a dark proximal-subterminal shade) 
and pale apical patch are just discernible. We figure a more normal o from Goodenough I., but I do not propose 
tristicula. to name the form separately unless the Trobriand should prove to be a race. —ab. tristicula wow. has a large dark 
suffusion in the tornal region of the hindwing, as in tristicula and volutaria. I have seen it from Collingwood Bay, 
fasciata. the Hydrographer Mountains and Milne Bay. -— ab. fasciata Warr. has a darkened median band on both wings, 
reaching from the postmedian line about to the cell. Type a well-marked $ from Goodenough I.; less pro¬ 
nounced examples known from Fergusson I., etc. The known range of the species is British New Guinea, Trobriand 
and D’Entrecasteaux Islands, St. Aignan and (1 perhaps representing a race) New Ireland. 
dischista. Pt. dischista sp. n. (16 i). 24 mm. Pace pale. Forewing with termen slightly bent in the middle; 
areole moderate; the cleanest parts little duller than vinaceous-fawn, the greater part gradually shading into 
cinnamon - drab; costal margin indistinctly dark-spotted; celldot minute; antemedian line acutely angled in the 
cell; median shade very weak, strongly outbent; a slightly greyer apical patch cut off by a thick line which 
runs from costa to termen at 2nd—3rd radial; a dark terminal line; fringe paler. Hindwing somewhat crenulate, 
the central tooth little stronger than the posterior ones; 1st median shortly stalked; much more ochraceous than 
forewing; cell-mark larger, white, set on a broad median shade; a weak, interrupted postmedian. Underside 
paler, the forewing inclining to vinaceous, the hindwing to buff, the latter with the weak postmedian present. 
Type from Bukit Kutu, Selangor, 3500 feet, presented to the British Museum by the Federated Malay States 
Museums. 
cyphosticha. Pt. cyphosticha Turn. (16 i). Generally more reddish than any of the preceding; relatively rather short¬ 
winged. Variable, but distinguishable from all by the sharp inward bend of the postmedian (especially on the 
forewing) behind its strong outward projection; antemedian line generally well expressed. The distal area may 
be without dark cloudings or may have such in the posterior half of each wing, sometimes, in addition, on the 
viayeri. apical part of the hindwing. — In ab. (? subsp.) mayeri nov., so striking that I had almost supposed it a separate 
species, the postmedian is scarcely so sharply bent as usual, the distal clouding of the forewing slight, that 
of the hindwing posteriorly ample, pale olive-grey, suffusedly bordered (except at abdominal margin) with 
blackish grey. Founded on a unique from the Buntibasa district of New Guinea: Kratke Mountains, 4000 to 
5000 feet, January 1933 (F. Shaw Mayer); type in the Tring Museum. I find, however, that Vulcan I. lias 
produced a similar while more normal forms occur at Astrolabe Bay. — The type locality of cyphosticha is 
dubia. Queensland; in New Guinea it is distributed, but rare. — dubia subsp. nov. (16 f). More heavily irroratecl proxi- 
mally, the antemedian line obsolete; postmedian rather less strongly excurved than usual (particularly notice¬ 
able on the underside), the pink shades which accompany the subterminal of the underside strengthened, almost 
exactly as described under strigata. Manus, Admiralty Islands, 2 $<3 in the Tring Museum. 
planctogram- Pt. planctogramma sp. n. (16 i). $, 25 mm. Face pale, narrowly redder above. Thorax and abdomen 
ma - above nearly concolorous with wings, beneath pale huffish; 1st abdominal tergite rufous. Forewing with termen 
very gently curved; areole rather long and narrow; dull vinaceous, largely (except costally and subterminallv) 
with more or less rufous cloudings; median area marked in places with yellow; cell-mark linear; antemedian 
scarcely indicated; postmedian thick, very irregular, an outward lobe divided into an acute tooth in front of 
1st radial and blunt double tooth at 3rd radial and 1st median; a narrow terminal shade; the yellow of the 
fringe slightly encroaching on the wing. Hindwing with termen scarcely bent, 1st median very shortly stalked; 
the vinaceous and rufescent parts not sharply differentiated; cell-mark and other small markings yellow. Under¬ 
side vinaceous, with some ill-defined whitish yellow markings. Dutch West Borneo, 85 miles above Pontianak. 
type in the British Museum. 
ozophanes. Pt. ozophanes Prout (16 k). Expanse 20 mm. Wings relatively broad. Pale lemon-yellow, so strongly 
irrorated with vinaceous or reddish as to produce an effect of dull orange, leaving somewhat less heavily irror- 
