PHOTOSCOTOSIA. By L. B. Prout. 
Ph. vashti Btlr. (Vol. 4, pi 11 e) evidently makes a passage towards Triphosa and sometimes resembles, vashti. 
in the two outstandingly white subterminal dots of the forewing, a broad-winged, glossy T. multilinearia. — '' Ph. 
instabilis (Vol. 4, p. 206) which, following Alpheraky, was also referred to the present genus, though doubt¬ 
fully, has been referred above to Triphosa. 
48. Genus: Pliotoscotosia Warr. 
(See Vol. 4, p. 202.) 
Ph. atrostrigata Brem. (Vol. 4, pi. 5 li). To the distribution assigned in Vol. 4 is to be added Saghalien; atrostrigata. 
Matsumtxra records it from Odomari (S. Saghalien) and Nyiwo (N. Saghalien), July and August. 
Ph. niiniosata Walk. (Vol. 4, pi. 6 k). Sterneck points out, as characteristic, the large black post- miniosata. 
median costal spot of the forewing beneath (compare the note on apicinotaria, infra); this is, however, more 
or less reduced in the Formosan race. There are probably two broods, one from the end of April and on into 
June, the other chiefly in August. On the whole, Palaearctic specimens have the dark parts darker (blacker) 
than those from Sikkim and Assam, but the difference is not constant. I have recently (1931) described a sub¬ 
species from Luzon. 
Ph. apicinotaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 5 k). Although the apparent constancy of the light apical spot of a-pidnotaria. 
the forewing above is applicable to both sexes and renders confusion with miniosata improbable, it is not without 
interest to notice Sterneck’s further differentiation of the 9$: forewing beneath in apicinotaria with the post¬ 
median spot reduced to a short, narrow streak. 
Ph. propugnataria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 11 g) ab. reducta Sterneck (13 a) is described as having the proximal reducta. 
and distal areas of the forewing uniformly brown and lacking the dash of yellow-greenish towards the apex, 
the hind wing also lacking the contrasting colours of the distal area, which remains uniformly light-brown. 
Underside grey-brown, not yellow, the sharp postmedian line of the hindwing obsolete. Described from Ta- 
tsien-lu. 
Ph. dejuncta sp. n. (10 d). Forewing almost as dark as in funebris (Vol. 4, pi. 11 f), but with apex rather dejuncta. 
more acute, tornus slightly more cut away, hair-pencil slenderer; a cupreous suffusion slightly more manifest, 
especially in median area, a subapical dash from costa to 5th subcostal and a slighter spot at apex whitish buff, 
these two confluent on the underside; hindwing with apex slightly more truncate than in funebris, the costal 
white area and the fuscous posterior part slightly more extended, the orange part nowhere crossing the 1st 
median vein, beneath with the orange part much restricted (nowhere approaching costa or termen) and much 
irrorated with the dark colour. Kashmir: Gulmarg, 16 July 1931, at light (T. B. Fletcher), type in the 
British Museum, presented by the discoverer. 
Ph. dejuta sp. n. (10 d). In shape and to some extent in the coloration of hindwing and underside near dejuta. 
the preceding; forewing better comparable with the most tawny-tinged $3 of miniosata but with the antemedian 
line widened into a narrow band, the postmedian a little more definite posteriorly, the subterminal with two 
whitish dots equally well expressed; hindwing beneath with a bent postmedian line, the orange suffusion less 
overlaid with dark scaling than in dejuncta and extending (though mostly narrow and not sharply defined) 
from cell-mark to termen between 2nd subcostal and 2nd radial. W. China: Wuin-kin, 1897 (R. P. Dejean), 
type 3 in the British Museum, ex coll. Oberthur. 
Ph. leechi Alph. (Vol. 4, pi. 5 li) is now known to occur also in West China. — ab. nortfasciata (ex Th.- leechi. 
Mieg) is a rather striking aberration from Ivoko-Nor which lacks the three bands, the black cell-spot and apical non fasciata. 
streak and a vague pale subterminal remaining. Thierry-Mieg wrote ab. non fasciata, which of course is not 
binomial; the ‘‘Zoological Record” gave it its status, otherwise I would have substituted something less crudely 
formed. 
Ph. undulosa Alph. (Vol. 4, pi. 5 h) occurs in W. China (Szechuan) as well as in the S. W. and in the undulosa. 
Koko-Nor district. 
Ph. rivularia Leech (10 d). This was given in Vol. 4 (p. 204) as a form of the very variable amplicata rivutaria. 
(or dejeani), with the comment that it might be a separate species — Leech’s own view of it. In any case it 
is worth while to provide a figure of it. 
Ph. postmutata Prout (10 e). This form is in like case with rivularia and equally deserves figuring, posimutaia. 
Differs from tonchignearia in shape (especially the truncate tornus of the 3 forewing), less clean white hindwing, 
less sharply chequered fringes, etc.; 3 considerably larger, as large as its 9- Our figure is one of a series from 
Kunkala-shan. 
Ph. tonchignearia Oberth. (10 e). 3 (Vol. 4, pi. 9h; as touclngnearia, 9 )- The originals came from Ta tonchignea- 
tsien-lu. The typical form, of which we now figure also a 3, from Kunkala-shan, has the white patch in the 
