PERIZOMA. By L. B. Prout. 
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fulvistriga is from Sikkim and I have it from Kumaon, but I have not yet found any racial distinction. A 
moderately large species, with rather warm colouring; the subterminal “macula" upon which the name was 
founded, is longitudinal and generally narrow, so that “striga” is a better designation. From antisticta, which 
has some points in common with it, fulvimacula differs in the shape of the markings, absence of their dark 
borderings, presence of (ill-defined) pale oblique dash from apex, etc. promiscuaria Leech , from W. and Central prorniscua- 
China (type from Chang Yang), is perhaps on an average larger, less bright and with less (or scarcely) developed 
longitudinal streak of the subterminal. But a Formosan $ is closely like some Indian. liberata Front, possibly liberata. 
a separate species, has sharper contrasts than even /. fulvimacula, the broad area between basal and median 
bands pale, traversed by a central brown shade which is edged distally by an angulated darker line; distal area 
with a pale central spot recalling that of scriata but less sharply defined, a bright brown band between the sub- 
terminal and the double pale line which bounds the median area. Szechuan. Easily distinguished from seriata 
by the sharply angled antemedian and proximal markings. 
P. affinis Moore (27 i) differs from fulvimacula in the suppression of the white spot at base of abdomen; affinis. 
basal and median bands stronger, the intermediate band or shade almost obsolete; median band sometimes (as 
in the figured paratype) broadened. Darjiling. 
P. constricta Warr. (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 16 a). In Vol. 4, p.259, I accepted Hampson's suppression of constricta. 
this to the preceding, though with a query. It is in any case a noteworthy form; brown parts less mixed with 
blackish (especially between the sharply dark subbasal and the antemedian line); median band narrowed, its 
distal edge rather straight; mid-subterminal spot extended, but ill-defined, greyish, with no fulvous mark, 
hindwing less white. Dalhousie. 
P. lineola Bastelb. (27 i). “Forewing smoky black with darker median band; along the termen are placed lineola. 
extremely fine white dots and at vein 4 a small yellow striga accompanies this vein. Hindwing white, with fine 
central dot. Underside smoke-grey, a praemarginal row of white dots from the costa to the hind angle; at the 
costa some indistinct spots. Hindwing with black central dot and a postmedian and a praemarginal macular 
line. Fringes yellowish; on the forewing dark spotted.” Arisan, Formosa. I have not had on opportunity to 
study this species, which may prove an aberration of promiscuar ia ; but I trust that a figure of the type will help 
to elucidate it. 
P. seriata Moore (Vol. 4, pi. 7 h). Forewing rather bright brown, basal patch well developed, median seriata. 
band nearly always conspicuously dark, subterminal white, punctiform, the dots large, unless the anterior 
2 or 3. mid-subterminal spot outstandingly large, nearly always pure white; an oblique whitish dash from apex. 
Described from Darjiling; widely distributed in N. W. India, N. Burma and W. China. - miveiplaga Bastelb. niveiplaga. 
(27 i), from Formosa, is more variable, nearly always less contrastingly coloured; median band weakly darkened, 
midsubterminal spot oftenest suffused with buff. 
P. taiwana Wileman (= arizanensis Wileman) (27 i). Founded on a few $$ from Arizan, 26 to 27 mm. taiwana. 
Closely like seriata but with the characteristic white subterminal spot more speckled or reticulated with dark 
scales. Possibly a remarkable modification of s. niveiplaga, with the median band darkened and bounded dis¬ 
tally by a double, broad line, of which the proximal part is pare white, the distal ochreous. 
P. fasciata Warr. (27 i). Smaller than seriata, the wings more glistening (Warren calls the forewing fasciata. 
“bronzy fuscous-brown”) the median band bounded on each side by a double whitish line, most distinct costally, 
the proximal one angulated outward in the middle; subterminal line macular, the central spot moderate, roundish; 
smaller white terminal spots. Forewing beneath with the costal part of the whitish postmedian stripe present, 
also the two outer series of white spots; hindwing beneath glossy white, with dark base and 5 lines or narrow 
bands. Sikkim: Nepal frontier, 10 000 to 12 000 feet. 
P. variaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 13 m). A strongly glossy species which I have suggested (t. c., p. 259) may variaria. 
possibly be a local race of the Japanese fulvida Btlr. (Vol. 4, pi. 7 k, as punctilinearia), though it seems to be 
somewdiat broader winged and the hindwing is considerabty lighter and less devoid of markings. Szechuan, 
the originals from Pu-tsu-fong. 
P. prouti Schawerda (Suppl.-Vol. 4, p. 166). Palpus longish, heavily scaled. Rather broad-winged but prouti. 
probably related to inconspicuaria, the white markings which border the median band stronger and clearer, 
especially in the costal part of the outer one; a strong projection of the postmedian at cellule 6 in addition to 
the central lobe which is present in both; subterminal forming a whitish spot in the middle; fringe chequered. 
Ta-tsien-lu, only the type $ known. 
P. inconspicuaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 7 h). This and its two neighbouring species are characterized by the inconspi- 
lunulate-dentate dark markings, in particular the postmedian; the browns and greys of inconspicuaria are not cuaria 
