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East, and in Syria in the middle, has quite as wide a range in the Indo-oriental region, occurring throughout 
India, in Ceylon and Sumatra, to Queensland and N. S. Wales in Australia; the ab. languida Walk., languida. 
(9 cl) described from S. Africa, but occurring also in Australia has the forewing browner, uniformly irrorated 
with black; — ab. undicilia (9 cl) Walk., the type of which was from Ceylon, has the median area suf- undicilia. 
fused with black; and ab. cana limps. (9 cl) from S. India and Australia, is sandy ochreous without any 
dark admixture. 
P. mortua Stgr. (= higerrima Warr., afra Graes., kala fiwinh.) (9 cl G; Vol. 3, pi. 16 h $). Forewing morlua. 
purplish brown black; the lines and edges of stigmata still deeper black; the reniform with some orange 
clots on its outer edge; hinclwing bronzy fuscous, paler towards base. Described both by Staitdinger and Grae- 
ser from Amurland; in India it is recorded from Simla, Murree, and Thundiani (whence the type of nigerrima) 
in the Punjab, and from Sikkim; found also in China and Tibet. 
P. nagaensis limps. (9e). Forewing clai'k purplish grey brown, partly fuscous-tinged; costal area nagaensis. 
tinged with red; inner margin pale ochreous brown; inner and outer lines double, filled in with grey, 
angled outwards below costa and oblique to median vein, then incurved, obsolete below vein 1; 
outer line bent outwards below costa, dentate and oblique below vein 2, interrupted in middle; subter¬ 
minal ochreous, preceded by obscure dentate black marks; claviform large, defined by black; orbicular and re¬ 
niform dark grey, with ochreous black-edged annuli; the former somewhat pear-shaped; the latter large 
and prominently mangled on median vein; the cell black; hindwing reddish brown; fringe tipped with 
white. Described from a single $ from the Naga Hills, Assam. 
P. ferrisparsa Hmps. (9e). Forewing brownish grey with black irroration and fuscous suffusion; sub- / errisparsa. 
costal nervure to outer line, median nervure, and base of the 3 median nervules pale grey; inner line grey 
edged with black, more strongly on outer side; outer line dark, dentate, the teeth forming white and 
black points on the veins; subterminal line ochreous white, conspicuous, preceded by irregular diffused 
black dentate marks; claviform stigma marked with black at its extremity; the cell black; orbicular and 
reniform fuscous ringed with ochreous white and outlined with black; the formeiysmall and round; the 
latter narrow; hindwing fuscous, paler towards base; the fringe whitish, with dark line at base. Recorded from 
several localities in the Punjab, N. W. India; it has also been taken in Kashmir. 
P. costigera Moore (9 e). Forewing purplish grey with black speckling; inner line double, obliquely costigera. 
waved, marked at costa by a black spot; outer lunulate dentate, bent outwards below costa, indented 
beyond cell, and incurved below middle; subterminal ochreous, preceded by patches of brown and rufous; 
claviform stigma large, black, or outlined with black; orbicular and reniform grey with ochreous annuli de¬ 
fined by black; the former round, the latter V-shaped; hindwing ochreous white; the veins and terminal half 
brown; fringe ochreous. Recorded only from the Punjab, N. W. India, — Kulu, Sultanpur, Simla, 
Dharmsala —, and from the Khasia hills, Assam. 
P. perdentata Hmps. (= bifida Fling.) (Vol. 3 pi. 16 i). Forewing olive brown with a purplish perdenlata. 
tinge; inner line acutely dentate below vein 1; claviform stigma large, blackish, with a pale dash above 
it at end and a long pale streak along base of vein 2; upper stigmata conversely oblique; the orbi¬ 
cular brown, with bright pale outline; the reniform filled up with leaden grey; a pale blurred space 
beyond cell from outer line to termen; subterminal line ochreous, toothed to termen on veins 3 and 4; 
hindwing dull fuscous, darker along termen. Occurs at Kulu in the Punjab; Hampson’s type was from 
Kashmir, Pungeler’s from West Turkestan. 
P. knyvetti Hmps. (9 e). Forewing dark purplish grey with patches of white and some diffuse white knyvetti. 
markings; a white patch near base between subcostal vein and vein 1, traversed by the black subbasal 
line and followed by black markings; inner and outer lines black, conversely edged with white; subter¬ 
minal line conspicuously white, preceded by blackish scaling and followed by black dentate marks, which 
expand into white patches at apex and extend to termen between veins 4 and 3; fringe with a fine 
white line at base; claviform stigma black-edged and joined by a black line to outer line; orbicu¬ 
lar and reniform large, with black outlines; the former white, connected above with a white costal patch; 
the latter purple grey, with partial white ring, angled inwards on median vein; the cell black before and be¬ 
tween them, and white beyond the reniform; hindwing white, slightly brownisli-tinged, the veins and 
a fine terminal line browner. Described from a single $ from Sikkim. 
P. dictyota Lower (9 f). Forewing brownish grey irrorated with black; inner and outer lines dictyota. 
black, double, filled in with white; the subterminal white preceded by black dentate marks; terminal black 
points; claviform stigma large, pale brown, outlined in white; orbicular and reniform brown with whitish 
annuli; the cell black; hindwing brown; the fringe with white tips. Described from a single $ from 
Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. 
P. pannosa Moore (9 f). Forewing purplish red brown, heavily suffused with black; a pale och- pannosa. 
