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Forewing blackish-brown with a broad, white, angled longitudinal band composed of 9 single spots, extending 
from the base to the apex of the wing. Hindwing yellowish-white, the costal margin and 1 to 3 distal-marginal 
spots blackish-brown. $ larger, on the forewing a round, white spot between veins 3 and 4; the abdomen and 
the hindwing are of a bright yellow. Length of forewing: J 1 19, $ 22 mm. India, Malacca, and Java. 
P. tripartita Wlcr. (24 e) differs from obliquifascia by the median longitudinal band on the forewing tripartita. 
only extending to the base of vein 3 and by a broad, white transverse band extending between the cell-end 
and the apex of the wing from the costa to the proximal margin. Burma. 
P. conjuncta Hmps. (24 e). <J: head light yellow; thorax blackish-brown; tegulae and shoulder-covers conjuncla. 
with a broad, yellowish-white distal-marginal band; abdomen yellow with thin, black transverse streaks, fore¬ 
wing white with brown veins, the costal and proximal margins brown, this colour now and then extending 
far into the white of the wing in the shape of a wedge; a thin, brown distal-marginal line. Hindwing white, 
with a brown costal margin and cliscoidal spot; the abdominal margin, and beyond it, yellowish. Length of 
forewing: 15 mm. Lombok. 
P. melatiopsis Wlcr. (=callisoma Fldr.) (25 b). antennae black with lighter tips; forehead black; melanopsis. 
hindhead and thorax loam-coloured yellowish-brown, the shoulder-covers with one black dot each; abdomen 
above carmine, beneath white, with a median row and one lateral row each of black dots. Forewing light reddish, 
cinnamon-coloured, the distal half suffused with brown, a blackish-grey, narrow, median transverse band 
margined with yellow. Base of hindwing and the anal third light carmine, the costal 2 / 3 yellowish, cinnamon- 
coloured. $ larger and lighter. Length of forewing: $ 27, ? 35 to 39 mm. Ceylon. 
P. galactina Hoev. (25 c). Antennae dark brown; head orange-yellow, forehead black; tegulae white galactina. 
with black spots and a yellowish-red posterior margin; shoulder-covers white with a black median spot; thorax 
black, at the sides white; abdomen bright carmine, with black median dots on the rings 2 to 7, the anal valves 
are strongly indented in the middle, turned upward, and project far beyond the anus. Forewing white, with 
chocolate veins; the proximal margin far beyond vein 1 of the same colour, two oblique, brown lines connect 
the base and the cell like a V with these broad inner-marginal areas, two much broader, large, oblique, brown 
bands extend from the apex and the costa of the wing and are united in the shape of a V with the inner-marginal 
area at the tip of vein 2, a bianch of one of these bands runs from the base' of vein 6 to the costa. Hindwing 
yellow, the base and anal fold are haired pink with some blackish spots. Length of forewing: $ 35, $ 45 mm. 
Island of Java. — orientalis Wlcr. differs from the type by its white head and carmine margining of the head orientalis. 
and tegulae and its larger size, and by larger blackish-grey spots on the hindwings. Length of forewing: $ 40, 
$ 50 mm. Sikkim and the Indian alpine districts. — The Khasia Hill specimens of this subspecies partly have 
red heads, and this being nowhere else the case in India, I denominate these specimens ab. (loc.) khasiana ab. khasiana. 
nov. As to further particulars on orientalis vid. Vol. II, p. 91. •— trigonalis Voll. (= cana JDruce) (25 c) differs trigonalis. 
from the type by its yellowish-red head, black antennae with a white terminal third, almost black markings on 
the forewings and carmine hindwings with a yellow touch towards the distal margin. Malacca and Sumatra. 
P. erosa Wlcr. (25 a). Forehead brown, upperhead, tegulae and shoulder-covers white with 5 liver- erosa. 
coloured brown spots, antennae blackish-brown; thorax liver-coloured brown with white sides; abdomen carmine, 
suffused with yellow, with a median row of black spots. Forewing dark liver-brown; 3 white distal-marginal 
spots and a white, median transverse band connected with the base by an irregular, white longitudinal area 
almost covering the whole basal half. Hindwing carmine, with a broad, brownish-black submarginal band 
and sometimes a discoidal spot of the same colour. —- ab. confluens ab. nov. has quite brown forewings exhibiting confluens. 
at the base a small white spot, and a median, narrow, white transverse band. The hindwing is in the distal 
half one-coloured dark brown and shows a brown, median transverse band. Length of forewing: <$ 26, $ 32 mm. 
Ceylon. 
P. aequata Wlcr. (24 h). head and palpi brownish-black, the basal two thirds of the antennae aequata. 
black, the rest at first white, then black; tegulae orange-yellow; thorax black; upperside of the abdomen black, 
sides yellow, with one row of black spots. Wings short and narrow; forewing black, the veins greyish-brown, 
a narrow orange-yellow, median transverse band extends from the costa to vein 1 and is at the inside straight, 
outside angled; hindwing black with a broad, orange-yellow, median transverse band. $ much larger, distinguish¬ 
ed by the two last rings of the abdomen, exhibiting a black median spot, and by the long, broad wings showing 
a broadly bent, orange-yellow, median transverse band. Length of forewing: 20, $ 29 mm. South Celebes. -— 
lorquini Fldr. (24 h). The yellow hindwing only margined with black and the much broader, orange-yellow lorquini. 
median bands of the $ immediately separate this form from the type. North Celebes. 
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