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PALPONIMA; PHYSETIOA. By W. Warren. 
incerta. M. incerta Hufn. ( = instabilisF., trigutta Esp., nebulosus Haw.) (Vol. 3, pi. 22h). Forewing grey, varied 
with fuscous dusting and striation, and often more or less tinged with rufous; inner and outer lines, where visible, 
marked by dark dots on veins; submarginal line variable, sometimes obscure, at others pale, and preceded 
by a dark shade, which may be complete or broken up into 3 blotches; upper stigmata large, the reniform 
generally dark, both edged with pale; a strong thick median shade, sometimes bent at middle and entire, often 
marked only at costa and inner margin; hindwing pale or dark grey with dark cellspot and pale fringe. The 
pallida, markings are all clearer hi the grey unsuffused forms; of these the chief are pallida Lampa (Vol. 3, 
pi. 22 h) from Sweden with the ground colour pale grey, finely striated with dark, and the two dotted cross 
coerules- lines; — coerulescens Tutt with the ground colour pale bluish grey; — subsetaceus Haw. (Vol. 3, pi. 22 i) which 
cens • is dark slaty grey without reddish tinge, and subcarnea Warr. (Vol. 3, pi. 22 i) greyish flesh colour with med- 
subcarnca'. i an anf l praesubmarginal shades deep brown; the hindwing dull white with submarginal band and cellspot 
contada. dark; —of the darker forms contacta Esp. (= instabilis Esp. nec F.) (Vol. 3, pi. 22i) is suffused with rufous 
fuscatus. brown, leading up to fuscatus Haw., which is dark purplish liver colour; - angustus Haw. is a rarer form, 
angustus mottled with chestnut brown and fuscous; — atra Tutt and rufa Tutt are two equally rare forms, the former 
ru j a unicolorous sooty blackish, the latter bright reddish. These dark suffused forms are commoner in Britain, 
pallidior. where the paler and more typical forms are rare. Two other distinct forms are pallidior Stgr. (= pallida 
Stgr. nec Lampa) from Fergana, Issykkul and Spain, with the forewing greyish white and the hindwing whitish; 
evanida. and evanida Btlr. from Japan, which resembles pallidior , but is larger, and has the subterminal line 
nlivacea. strongly preceded by rufous shading. Still another form, olivacea Warr. (Vol. 3, pi. 22 i) has the forewing ashy 
grey with a strong olive flush; the median shade and the clouds before submarginal line also deeper olive; of 
two ES one i s much more varied with olive fuscous, and with the lines better marked than the other; the $ 
is wholly dark olive fuscous, with the edges of the stigmata and the submarginal line paler; in all three the reni¬ 
form stigma is broader and less oblique than in typical incerta ; the hindwing varies from pale to dark grey 
with an olive tinge, with dark cellspot and whitish fringe. This palaearctic species is recorded from Simla 
in the Punjab, N. W. India. Larva green, dotted with yellowish white; dorsal line yellowish; subdorsal less 
distinct; spiracular pale yellow, edged above with blackish; spiracles white ringed with black; on various 
trees and shrubs. 
20. Genus: l*alf»onmia Hmps. 
Tongue well-developed; frons with roughened truncate conical prominence; palpi porrect, the second 
segment long and fringed with hair below, the third long and slender, dilated at extremity; antennae of $ 
bipectinate to apex; thorax and abdomen slightly crested; neuration normal. Type P. orthosioides Btlr. 
orthosioides. P. orthosioides Btlr. (8k). Forewing pale to dark grey brown dusted with fuscous; inner line double, 
slightly curved and oblique; outer line varying in clearness, bent outwards below costa and incurved below 
vein 4. followed by a series of short black streaks on the veins interrupted by white points; subteiminal 
line whitish tinged with rufous, slightly and evenly curved; orbicular and reniform stigmata with blackish 
notata. centres and pale brown annuli edged with black; hindwing fuscous; — the ab. notata ah. nov. is much paler 
and greyer; the forewing shows a series of black spots on the veins before the subterminal line and is somewhat 
dentate at middle. The type from Mandi in the Punjab; the aberration from Simla. 
21. Genus: Pliysetica Meyr. 
Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi short and stout, upturned, the third segment in $ much dilated, 
with a small orifice on outer side near tip; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax and abdomen clothed with hair, 
without crests; pectus woolly; fore tarsi with long curved spines on first segment; forewing elongate, the apex 
prominent, the termen obliquely curved; neuration normal. Type P. coerulea Guen. A small genus endem¬ 
ic to New Zealand. 
coerulea. P. coerulea Guen. (10 k). Forewing blue grey irrorated with whitish; inner and outer lines double 
indistinct; the inner obliquely curved, angled inwards on vein 1; outer dentate, the teeth forming white 
points on veins; an indistinct whitish subterminal line with fuscous shading internally.; orbicular and reni¬ 
form stigmata obscurely defined by white; a diffuse obscure dark median shade; hindwing fuscous, the basal 
and inner areas yellow, especially in the <$. NeAv Zealand: Marlborough, Wellington, Blenheim Rakaia. 
vindemialis. P. vindemialis Guen. (10k). Forewing purple-red, slightly grey-dusted; markings indistinct; inner 
line greyish, curved; outer dentate, bent at vein 4; subterminal hardly visible; orbicular stigma absent; 
reniform lunular, with a fuscous spot at lower end of cell; hind wing purplish pink, with pale fringe. Describ¬ 
ed from a single $ said to be from Florida, in N. America, but probably wrongly. In this species the fore 
tarsi have long curved spines on outer side of the first 3 segments, those at each extremity stoutest. 
