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broad macula along the proximal margin. Hindwing pale yellowish and near the base covered with reddish 
hairs. A discoidal spot and 2 large and one small anal spot as well as tAvo distal-marginal spots black. 
Length of forewing: 34 mm. Formosa. 
P. dentata Wkr. (= khandalla Moore ) (24 e). head white, forehead and antennae black; tegulae deniata. 
white with blackish-brown proximal margins; thorax blackish-brown, shoulder-covers white with a black 
median dot; abdomen red with median and lateral rows of black transverse streaks. Forewing dark-brown 
with 2 white distal marginal spots and a median, white, irregularly dentate longitudinal band extending from 
the base somewhat beyond the middle of the wing, where it bends angularly upward and reaches the costa 
at the base of vein 7. Hindwing white, a series of submarginal spots and the costal space smoky-grey and 
the abdominal margin pink. Tne 9, more intensely marked, has rosy-red hindwings. Length of forewing: 
18 to 21 mm. West and South India. 
P. sipahi Moore (24 d). Head whitish pink; antennae white with a black tip and median band; tegulae sipahi. 
whitish pink with a brown median dot; thorax brown, shoulder-covers with broad, whitish margins. Abdomen 
light carmine or dark pink with median and lateral bands of black spots. Fore wing brown with 5 or 6 
irregularly curved transverse bands of large and small light pink spots. Hindwing of a bright pink, a spot 
in the cell, a discoidal spot and two large submarginal spots being smoky-black. Length of forewing: 16 
to 19 mm. Bombay (India). 
P. pannosa Moore. Head and tegulae creamy-white, spotted black; thorax brown, sheaths of wings pannosa. 
creamy-white with a broad, brown interior margin and apical spot; abdomen light pink with median and 
lateral rows of black dots. Forewing brown with a broad, creamy-white longitudinal band extending from 
the base below the median to two thirds of the length of 'vein 3, between the veins 3 and 5 at the distal 
margin 2 white spots and 2 similar spots at the costa. Hindwing dirty light pink with a sooty-grey dis¬ 
coidal spot and a similarly coloured, large, subapical spot. Length of forewing: 19 mm. North West India. 
P. picta Wkr. (24 e). <$: head scarlet; antennae black; thorax white, dotted black, tegulae and picta. 
shoulder-covers margined with scarlet; abdomen yellow, faintly lined red, with median and lateral rows of 
black dots. Forewing bright scarlet with 6 creamy-white transverse bands. In each of them there is a row of 
steel-coloured grey spots. Hindwing yellow, somewhat lined red. The $ differs by the pink abdomen, carmine 
hindwings and by the grey spots in the bands of the forewings being fused into regular bands. — In ab. 
lufea ab. nov. all the red has turned yellow. —- In ab. formosa Btlr. all the bands of the forewing are much lutea. 
broader. Length of forewing: $ 20, $ 28 mm. South China, Shan States. formosa. 
P. imperialis Roll. (25 c). Head creamy-white; forehead, palpi and antennae black; tegulae black imperialis. 
and white; thorax black, shoulder-covers white with a black median dot; abdomen above bright carmine with 
black transverse bands, beneath black with red transverse lines. Forewing black, a white longitudinal band 
runs from the base through the cell to vein 6, where it is forked, one branch extending to the origin of vein 
8, the other along vein 6 to the distal margin; another white longitudinal band rises at the origin of vein 1 
and extends to the distal angle above vein 1; the distal margin white; an oblique, shorter, white band runs 
from the base of vein 3 to the distal margin at the end of vein 2. Hindwing light yellow, a discoidal spot 
and a submarginal band of three large spots smoky black. Length of forewing: $ 39, $ 60 mm. North West 
India and Sikkim. 
P. distinguenda Wkr. (24 h). Head and tegulae dark chocolate-brown, margined with pink; antennae distinguen- 
reddish-brown; thorax dark chocolate-brown with a white median line, shoulder-covers with a white spot; f,M ' 
abdomen dark chocolate-brown with pink lateral spots; forewing chocolate-brown with a small, basal, white 
spot in the cell. Hindwing chocolate-brown with a broad, white longitudinal band between the cell and the 
costal margin, in and below the cell hyaline. — In ab. reducfa ab. nov. the white spot in the cell of the reducta. 
forewing is absent, and the white band of the hindwing is much smaller. North Celebes. —- tricolor Pag. tricolor. 
differs from the type by the yellow antennae, the red collar, the yellow shoulder-covers with a brown median 
spot, the quite blackish sides of the abdomen, the yellow spot at the apex of the forewing, and the 3 red 
margins of the hindwing. Amboina. —■ burica Holt. (24 h) differs from the type by the black antennae, the burica. 
creamy-white tegulae and shoulder-covers, the creamy-white, black-dotted thorax, the carmine abdomen 
with a black median band, the two white subcostal spots of the forewing, the absence of the white discal spot 
in the forewing, the red base and the broad, red costal band of the hindwing. Island of Buru. — pluto- plutonica. 
niea Fldr. Antennae brown; head and tegulae black, margined with a bright red; shoulder-covers black, feebly 
marked with whitish; thorax black with a red median streak on the metathorax; abdomen above black 
with reddish sides and a red anal tuft. Forewing dark chocolate-brown, a whitish spot near the base and 
