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P. hudsoni Howes. Forewing light greyish blue; the lines blackish, zigzag; the inner and outer hudsoni. 
approaching each other at centre of wing and again at inner margin; a diffuse yellowish tinge in middle of wing 
from costa to inner margin; a dark suffusion on costa before subterminal line; veins in places marked 
with dark; orbicular and reniform stigmata obscure; fringe blue grey mottled with grey; hindwing bright 
ochreous, terminally becoming dark fuscous. Described from a single <$ from Tuturau, near Mataura, New Zealand. 
P. maryx Guen. Forewing deep vinous red, almost black, with a few pale patches in places; the maryx. 
usual markings indistinct; outer l.ne obscurely lunulate dentate, the teeth prolonged on the veins and followed 
by a row of pale dots; subterminal line hardly visible; reniform stigma indicated only by some Whitish 
scales; hindwing dark grey, with dark terminal line and pale fringe; underside whitish; the costa, termen, and 
median line vinous red. Described by Guenee from a single $ in the Paris Museum, said to be from Australia. 
P. micrastra Meyr. (11a). Forewing bright rufous; costal area with some whitish irroration; veins micrastra. 
darker dotted with white; inner line represented by a dark dot on vein I with white points on each side of it; 
outer by a curved series of similar dots; another at lower end of cell: hindwing reddish ochreous suffused 
with brown. New Zealand: Wellington, Karori. 
22. Genus: ISritliys Him. 
Tongue feebly developed; frons smooth; palpi short and stout, obliquely porrect, thickly scaled; antennae 
of d flattened and thickened, subserrate, pubescent; legs short and thick; scaling smooth ; thorax and abdomen 
without crests. Type B. encausta Hbn. 
A small, but natural genus; the larvae feed on Liliaceae. One species only is oriental, the other two 
being palaearctic, and one of these extending through Africa. 
B. crini F. (= dominica Cram.) (11 a). Forewing dark leaden grey; inner line waved, irregular, oblique crini. 
towards costa and closely approximated to reniform; outer line subdentate, produced to form short streaks 
on veins, below vein 3 bent inwards to lower edge of reniform and approaching inner line; subterminal 
consisting of a series of pale spots preceded by dark dentate marks, the space immediately before it pale 
rufous except at costa; only the reniform stigma present, small and grey, with rufous annulus; hindwing pure 
white; costal area fuscous, the fuscous extending in $ along terminal area as well. Larva with the head, the 
second and last segments, and the legs yellow; the rest brown, with dorsal and subdorsal series of yellow¬ 
ish white spots. Occurs in the Punjab, Ceylon, Burma, Singapore, and Java. 
23. Genus: AspiriifVontia Hmps. 
Tongue weak; frons with a large circular corneous prominence with raised rim and truncate conical 
centre; palpi shortly porrect, fringed with hair below; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax and abdomen without 
crests; neuration normal. Type A. semipallida Hmps. A small African genus, one species of which occurs in 
India. 
A. axylides Hmps. (11a). Forewing lilacine greyish white; costal area beyond inner line and area axylides. 
beyond outer line ochreous, suffused with brown except at apex; basal area below cell purplish brown; inner 
line angled outwards below cell and above inner margin, emitting long teeth in cell and along median vein; 
outer line double, denticulate; subterminal line minutely waved, internally brown-shaded; a terminal 
series of pale dots; claviform stigma small, brown or edged with brown; orbicular absent; reniform narrow; 
the centre whitish with brown outline and an ochreous annulus with black on its outer side; its lower 
end followed by brown shading to outer line; hindwing white. Sikkim, N. India; Madras, S. India. Only the 
$$ are known. 
24. Genus: Metopiora Meyr. 
Tongue minute; palpi porrect, short, and slender; frons with large circular corneous prominence 
with raised rim and a central truncate conical process, also with raised rim; a corneous plate below 
the frons; antennae of <$ subserrate; thorax and abdomen smooth, without crests; fore tarsi with all 
the segments shortened, the claws at end strong. Fore wing without any transverse markings or stigmata, 
superficially recalling the genus Timora and its allies. Type M. sanguinata Lucas. 
M. sanguinata Lucas. Forewing deep yellow; a horizontal pink streak from base, running below sanguinata. 
the cell, then rather oblique to termen at vein 5, narrowed beyond cell and swollen at termen; costal edge pink, 
widening in outer half ; fringe pink, expanding into a spot on termen above tornus; hindwing white. Cape 
York, and Townsville, N. Queensland. 
