PHAEOPYRA; PYROIS; PERTPYRA. By W. Warren. 
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sometimes absent in the forewing, and in other cases vein 8 of the hindwing anastomoses for some distance with the upper 
margin of cell; but, with these few exceptions, the scheme of neuration remains stable. Here and there secondary sexual cha¬ 
racteristics are noticeable in the especially in the genus Eriopus, as displayed in the distorted antennae and the hair tuf¬ 
ting of the tibiae. 
The larvae are smooth, with single bristles from the tubercles, and have all the prolegs present; their habits vary as 
much as those of the preceding groups, the majority pupating in the ground, others spinning a cocoon among leaves, while 
these feeding within the stems of plants and reeds utilise these for their final transformations. 
1. Genus: Pliaeopyra Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, short and stout; the second segment 
scaled below, the third smooth, pointed; antennae of <$ with short sessile fascicles of cilia; thorax 
smoothly scaled, with slight crests; dorsum with a slight basal crest; forewing with apex blunt, termen 
only slightly oblique; edges of stigmata with small tufts of raised scales; neuration normal. Type 
P. novaguinensis Beth.-Baker. 
P. dlloeropis Trnr. (14 i). Forewing reddish brown varied with grey and darker brown; the base chloeropis. 
and inner margin suffused with grey; lines indistinct, clearer at costa, where they are partially double; the 
inner denticulate, the outer similar, with some grey beyond it, outcurved above and incurved below 
vein 4; subterminal line lunulate dentate, grey defined by fuscous, with a grey patch beyond it at apex; 
stigmata small, the grey orbicular round, with black centre and ring; the reniform also black-edged suf¬ 
fused with brown; hindwing fuscous, darker along termen. Described from a single $ from Queensland. 
P. novaguinensis Beth.-Baker. Forewing grey with reddish brown suffusion, especially in outer novaguinen- 
half of costal area; a black point at base; the lines obscure and interrupted, the inner double, blackish, sls ' 
obliquely waved; the outer bent outwards below costa, becoming minutely dentate, and incurved below 
vein 4; subterminal waved and indistinct, diffusely whitish, preceded by slight blackish marks; an ob¬ 
lique pale streak from apex; terminal lunules black; fringe whitish, with reddish brown lines at middle 
and tips; claviform stigma a tuft of raised black scales; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 
whitish annuli, marked by raised blackish scales; the orbicular round, the reniform with a small white spot 
at lower end; hindwing fuscous, the inner margin pale rufous; fringe white, mixed from apex to vein 2 
with rufous. British New Guinea. 
2. Genus; >\v rois Hbn. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi stout, upturned, the second segment broad, fringed 
in front with hair, the third short and smooth; antennae of $ shortly ciliated; thorax clothed with hairs, 
without crests; abdomen broad, dorsally flattened, without crests, with lateral fringes of hair towards 
extremity; forewing with blunt apex and not very oblique termen; neuration normal. Type Pyrois cinna- 
momea Kleem. 
The genus contains only 1 species from the Indian region, the other 2 being palaearctic. The larva, 
of the known species, hybernates small, feeding up in spring and pupating in a spun cocoon among leaves 
and rubbish. 
P. albicilia Hmps. (15 a). Forewing grey with partial red brown suffusion; the veins streaked with albidlia. 
dark brown; a fine dark brown streak on base of submedian fold; diffused pale rufous streaks on 
terminal half of both folds; inner and outer lines double, dark filled in with pale, ill defined; inner angled 
outwards in cell, submedian fold, and below vein 1, inwards on veins, the angle on vein 1 acute; outer 
line interrupted in middle; subterminal consisting of pinkish white dentate marks, inwardly defined 
by reddish brown dentate marks from costa to vein 3, and followed above vein 3 by a dark streak; ter¬ 
minal lunules redbrown; fringe grey and rufous; orbicular stigma absent, or a faint white spot; reniform 
two small whitish spots; above vein 4 a dark brown streak extends to termen, another, above vein 3, 
to outer line only; hindwing bright copper red, deeper along termen; fringe white. Described from a 
single $ from Murree, the Punjab, N. India. 
3. Genus: Peripyra Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment broad and well fring¬ 
ed with hair, the third short, smooth, and blunt; antennae of G with short ciliations; thorax hairy, 
