PSILORETA. By W. Warren. 
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marked by small black spots on the veins 1, 2 and 3; on the transverse vein a grey angular mark. Hindwing 
with a dark, bent proximal and distal line, and 2 small spots on the transverse vein. Beneath the forewing 
and the costal-marginal area of the hindwing are rather bright red; the distal line only traceable on both wings. 
Sikkim (North India). 
0. berenice Swh. Palpi and legs purple red; body red, tinted grey and scantily striated black. Wings berenice. 
marked but very little; near the costal margin some small black dots and few here and there on both wings; 
at the cell-end of the forewing an indistinct, blackish, dingy spot, and a blackish streak upwards from the 
proximal margin before the anal angle. Under surface light flesh-coloured grey with few dark striae. Singapore 
(Malayan Peninsula). It differs from the North Indian griseotincta Hmps. (50 k) by the absence of the lines. 
0. hepatica Warr. (50 1) is smaller than the two last species, dull grey, without any red tint. At hepatica. 
and behind the cell-end some brown scaling; of the two lines we only see the beginning at the costal margin, 
the distal line is followed by a light costal-marginal spot like in griseotincta. Above the anal angle, on veins 
1 and 2 a dark spot; on the transverse vein a grey angular mark. Hindwing without markings except 2 white 
small dots on the transverse vein. Beneath the forewing is dark brownish-grey, the hindwing light grey; thorax 
and abdomen whitish-grey. Described according to 1 from Sandakan (Borneo). 
0. cardinalis Warr. (50 k). Forewing deep brick-red, with some deeper red and towards the margin cardinalis. 
blackish striae; traces of an oblicpie, dark distal line being angular behind the cell; an angular, dark grey cellular 
spot; hindwing red, at each end of the transverse vein a small grey spot. Beneath lighter and duller, the dark 
striae clearer, the cellular spot black. Forelegs of a bright red; face dark brown; thorax reddish; abdomen 
light grey, above lined red. Described according to a from Penungah (North Borneo). The 4 species mentioned 
above are undoubtedly closely allied, but Ido not see any reason for considering them to be identical, griseo¬ 
tincta Hmps. is from North India; berenice Sivh. from Singapore, hepatica Warr. and cardinalis Warr. both 
from Borneo, but smaller; hepatica is grey without any red, cardinalis red without any grey. 
50. Genus: Psiloreta gen. nov. 
Distinguished from Oreta by the antennae exhibiting dense, knobbed pinnae, and not being bi-combed. 
Type: Ps. sanguinea Mr. 
Ps. sanguinea Mr. (51 c). In the forewing the basal 2 / 3 are purple, then follows a broad yellow band sanguinea. 
with irregular margins; marginal area dull purple, at the apex and anal angle tinted dark greyish-brown. Hind¬ 
wing yellow, the basal half and the apex dull purple; both wings speckled with dark striae, the forewing with 
an angular, white cellular mark; found in Sikkim, Assam, and Yatong (Tibet). 
Ps. obliquilinea Hmps. (50 k). Forewing pale yellow; the discal area between the proximal and distal obliquilinea. 
line, a broad diffuse marginal shade and an irregular cloud at the base of the wing fawn-coloured. Proximal 
line bent, curved, extending very near to the base; the distal line is dark brown, faintly curved to vein 8 near 
the apex, where it is angular, and below the costal margin recurved to a brown spot; fringes dark brown, before 
them an orange-red hue in the upper half of the wing; discocellular with a white angular line in the centre, 
before it a dot in the cell, and another one at the lower cell-end. Hindwing with 3 fawn-coloured basal spots; 
before the middle a band with a straight proximal border and a diffuse, twice angled distal border; at the apex 
to vein 6 a fawn-coloured mark with a round spot below 6, in which there are small black scales. Forewing 
beneath orange-red with dark striae; distal line blackish, apex yellowish; subapical area lustrous lead-coloured. 
Hindwing yellow, the basal third and an apical spot orange-red. Face, legs, and ventrum red; tegulae cream- 
coloured; thorax and abdominal dorsum brown, in the $ more yellow. North India: Khasia Hills, Sikkim, 
and the Pendjab. 
Ps. loochooana Swh. (50 k). Forewing flesh-coloured on a yellow ground with a lustrous reflection, looehooana. 
particularly along the costa. Basal area yellow, suffused and striated with a dull flesh-colour; proximal line 
yellow, diffuse; distal line straight yellow, angular on vein 6 before the apex, marked with black and recurved 
to the costal margin; the space between the lines redder; on the transverse vein a white angular line;marginal 
area redder, as far as right at the centre of the margin; at the anal angle a black spot. Hindwing dull yellow, 
base and apical spot flesh-coloured, the yellow part speckled dark. Beneath as above, but the apical spot of 
the hindwing very bright flesh-coloured. Loochoo Islands, Heinan. 
Ps. aequitermen sp. nov. (50 1) is much smaller than obliquilinea Hmps., the fawn-coloured markings aequiter- 
are replaced by pinkish-brown ones; distal line broader of a deep brown, the antemedian band of the hindwing meru 
narrower. 3 S3-, 2 $$ from the Malayan Peninsula, and 1 § from Sumatra. Type in the Tring Museum. 
The margin of the forewing is almost straight, not gibbous as in obliquilinea. 
