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tended, generally broadening to the apex and costa, occasionally more band-like (bounded by the postmedian 
and subterminal), but even in this case connected at costa with a narrow yellow streak which runs round the 
apex and to the 1st radial; her underside more blotched with orange than in the $. W. China and Chinese 
Tibet, the type from Wa-Shan. — $-ab. reducta Sterneck (see Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 13 a) lacks the yellow patch reductu. 
of the hindwing and has the underside less yellowish; in its type, from Ta-tsien-lu, the proximal and distal 
areas of the forewing are said to be more uniformly brown than in name-typical propugnataria. Our figure is 
a transition; I have not seen the extreme form. 
Ph. prasinotmeta sp. n. (32 b). An interesting link between propugnataria and metachryseis , the shape prasinol- 
of the $ forewing as extreme as in the latter, the hindwing with more extended white anteriorly and more 
extended yellow above and beneath than in propugnataria, otherwise closely similar to that species. Forewing 
with the space between the slender green subbasal line and the antemedian mostly filled with dark shading; 
ante- and postmedian connected by slender yellow-green streaks on the 2nd median and the fold; postmedian 
with rather acute projection at the 2nd radial; subterminal accompanied distally by some black marks, those 
in cellules 2 and 3 strong, quadrate. W. China. 2 ES from the Oberthur collection, the type from Ta-tsien-lu. 
Ph. apicinotaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 5 k). Forewing coloured nearly as in polysticha. the lines much less apicinotaria. 
straight; a very characteristic whitish apical spot present. Hindwing of the $ similar to those of polysticha 
and atrostrigata, that of the (much larger) $ with an orange patch recalling miniosata; the yellow colouring 
on the underside in this sex is more restricted than in miniosata and the dark postmedian spot at the costa is 
shortened and narrowed. W. China. 
Ph. dejuta Prout (32 c) (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 10 d). Forewing coloured nearly as in the most tawny-tinged dejuta. 
AS of miniosata ; antemedian band-like, postmedian better defined posteriorly than in miniosata, subterminal 
with two whitish dots equally well expressed. Shape and to some extent the coloration of the hindwing and 
underside suggest affinity with dejuncta-, hindwing beneath with a bent postmedian line, the orange suffusions 
less overlaid with dark scaling. W. China: Wuin-kin. only the type S known. 
Ph. dejuncta Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 10 d). Forewing almost as dark as in funebris, but with the apex dejuncta. 
rather more acute, the tornus slightly more cut away; the hair-pencil more slender; a cupreous suffusion 
rather more manifest; pale subapical marks present. Hindwing beneath with the orange-yellow part much 
restricted, irrorated with the dark ground-colour. Gulmarg, Kashmir, the type S also a unicum. 
Ph. funebris Warr. (32 c) (Vol. 4, pi. Ilf). Forewing above almost uniformly darkened, the black funebris. 
markings (or at least the boundaries of the moderately broad median area) discernible but not conspicuous 
(in our figure too variegated); beneath whitish, dark-bordered except at hindmargin. Hindwing similar to 
that of miniosata. W. China. 
Ph. obliquisignata Moore (= stigmatica Warr.) (32 c). Named from the large, elongate and very oblique obliqui- 
cell-mark of the forewing, which is emphasized by its pale edging; forewing with many lines, somewhat varie¬ 
gated, but with the areas not very sharply defined. Hindwing in the $ with the orange extended, not very 
sharply defined. Sikkim, very rare, the <$, so far as I am aware, still unknown. 
Ph. fasciaria Leech (Vol. 4. pi. 11 f). Very distinct in the unusually broad and almost uniformly darkened iaciaria. 
median band of the forewing on a relatively light ground-colour. Hindwing with the orange-yellow more ex¬ 
tended than in the miniosata group. How-kow. Tibet. 
Ph. metachryseis Hmps. (= obliquisignata Hmps. olim, err. det.) (32 c) differs from obliquisignata in metachryseis. 
its less reddish forewing, normal cell-mark, more cloudy markings, the white (or at least pale) midcostal patch, 
pale streak from apex, dark apical clouding (much extended beneath) on the orange anterior part of the hind¬ 
wing and other characters. Sikkim. 
50. Genus: Callabraxas Btlr. 
This genus was proposed for the somewhat isolated species amanda Btlr. and accepted by Hampsok. 
who separated it (from the other Indian genera which lie recognized as having the costa of the hindwing “highly 
arched and vein 8 curved, especially in S”) by the “frons rounded and smooth: palpus upturned; S with 4 tufts 
on inner area of forewing". These mimetic members of the Eustroma-Lygris group, even more than Eustroma 
itself, are in a condition of chaos taxonomically. almost every species showing some structural individuality. 
The groupings which I adopted in Vol. 4 (p. 209—211) and Supplement do not claim any permanence. The 
general mimicry of the Abraxas group, which are well known to be distasteful and "aposematic". takes various 
different manifestations. The genotype has double areole and non-biangulate discocellulars. The only other 
species known to me with shortened palpus and that venation is therefore placed here, but there is obviously 
