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P. perspicuifascia Rothsch. of which only 1 was captured by R. Frdhstorfer on the Volcano Gede 
in West Java, which is in the Tring Museum to-day, very much resembles incandescens (31 b). but it differs 
by its much smaller size and above it shows a less olive-coloured tint; the basal, antemedian and median bands 
are not only nebulous bands, but as distinctly marked as the postmedian band; on the hindwing there are 
3 dark nebulous bands. The under surface is more grey, less olive, the hindwing deep purple; on both wings 
the postmedian band is not straight as in incandescens but deeply concave. — niassana Rothsch. represents 
the species in the Island of Nias and exhibits the postdiscal area of both wings above wood-coloured and the 
under surface of both wings tinted orange. 
P. pallidipennis Hmps. is unknown to me in nature; the $ (having been described alone) has an 
expanse of 130 mm. It is pale oc-hreous, strewn with a dark brown. Basal part of forewing shaded with dark 
which tint goes across the cell and extends along the subcostal and median as a dentate dark marking. An 
oblique dark line from the costa near the apex to the middle of the proximal margin, behind it 3 lines on a 
brown ground and 2 additional ones; from the apex dark spots extend on a brown band. Black ante- 
marginal spots are feebly connected with a dentate line. The $ has an expanse of 112 mm. From Tenasserim. 
— grandis Rothsch. from the Shan States is much larger (128 mm) and the transverse lines between the oblique 
median band and the submarginal row of spots in the forewing more numerous and more distinct. 
P. clemensi Schultze resembles rather certain Pseudojana, but the author places it to Palirisa which 
has otherwise broader wings. Head and prothorax blackish, body otherwise oehreous-brown; abdomen with 
dark transverse bands except on the anal part. Wings brownish-grey, a broad, dull dark transverse band near 
the base of the forewing, a narrower similar antemedian band, in the centre of the wing itself a distinct, some¬ 
what curved line and a straight dark transverse stripe before the marginal area. Hindwing similarly coloured 
and marked, but somewhat duller. Length of forewing: + 63, $ 77 mm. Mindanao. 
12. Genus: Ganisa Wkr. 
It differs from the genus Apha by the straight costal margin and vein 8 of the hindwing being less distant 
from 7 as well as the densely haired palpi. Forewing broad with a sharp and somewhat projecting apex, the 
discocellular is angular below vein 5, the veins 7 + 8+9 forked. In the hindwing the discoeellular is oblique, 
veins 6 and 7 forked ( pandya , glaucescens) or rising from the cell-angle ( postica). Spurs of the legs long. The 
type is postica Wkr., and therefore the I. Section of the genus founded upon postica according to the course 
of the veins 6 and 7 of the hindwing is to be regarded as the typical one. 
G. postica Wkr. (= plana Wkr., similis Mr.) (Vol. II, t. 29 e). <$. Purple-coloured greyish-brown, 
the head darker brown. In the forewing an indistinct oblique antemedian line, a black and grey spot at the 
cell-end, five indistinct dark undulate lines, a double, oblique, almost straight line from the apex to the dorsal 
margin outside of the centre. In the hindwing there is sometimes a black spot at the cell-end (f. nigromaculifera 
form, nov.), besides there are three indistinct undulate lines and a somewhat oblique and slightly undulate 
postmedian line outside of which there is usually a row of dark spots which may sometimes be absent (f. mono- 
tonica form. nov.). Fringes of both wings red-brown. Beneath the spots at the cell-end and the undulate lines 
are more distinct. In the 2 forewing the apex is more projecting. Expanse of wings: 68 mm. Widely distributed 
in India and Ceylon. 
G. pandya Mr. (37 c). The differs from postica by its fawn colouring and black head. In the forewing 
there is a light spot at the cell-end; in the hindwing no undulate lines, on the dorsal margin a dark spot, a dark 
median line is distally tinged ochreous, a submarginal row black spots. — pallida Btlr. has a dark oblique trans¬ 
verse spot in the centre of the costal area, from which a dark longitudinal band extends between veins 4 and 5 
to the margin, and a distinctly marked dark marginal band of the forewing. -— niassana Rothsch. has in the 
female a cinnamon-coloured, not drab ground-colour, and the transverse markings are much less distinct and 
more reddish-yellow; from Nias. Besides the species is widely distributed in the Indian Himalaya: Sylhet, 
Sikkim, Bhutan. 
G. glaucescens Wkr. (37 c 36 a $). Dark reddish-brown, A with a yellow spot at the cell-end 
and two dark, indistinct undulate lines; the double postmedian line is below the costal margin bent convex 
towards the margin and between the two demi-lines of it the ground is reddish-yellow, whereas the space between 
this double line and the submarginal undulate line is grey, of which colour is also the marginal line. In the 
hindwing the postmedian line is curved, the marginal area as in the forewing. -— The $ is more ochreous and 
scarcely covered with grey in the marginal area. Expanse of wings: 80, 2 94 mm. Sikkim. 
perspicui¬ 
fascia . 
niassana. 
pallidipen¬ 
nis. 
grandis. 
clemensi. 
postica. 
nigromacu¬ 
lifera. 
monotonica. 
pandya. 
pallida. 
niassana. 
glaucescens. 
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