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strongly excurved above inner margin; outer line with white points beyond it on the veins, nearly 
vertical and straight; area beyond it fuscous brown except at costa; subterminal line wavy, incurved 
on the folds, defined on outer side by diffuse ochreous; terminal black points; fringe with pale line at 
base and intersected by rufous; claviform stigma a patch of black scales; orbicular and reniform with 
dark centres and pale annuli; hindwing brownish grey; the fringe pale rufous. Assam and Sikkim, N. 
India. 
P. leprosa Hmps. (15 k). Forewing redbrown, with dark suffusion in lower half of median leprosa. 
area and in terminal area; some scattered redbrown patches along costa; base to inner line occupied 
by a creamwhite patch leaving the costa brown; orbicular and reniform cream white, large and round, 
touching an oblique pale streak from costa; reniform very large, confluent above with a subcostal white 
patch, which is itself confluent with a white apical streak; inner and outer lines clear only below middle, 
the outer lunulate dentate, with white points on the veins; subterminal line dark, diffuse, incurved at 
both folds, where there are ochreous white patches beyond it; fringe chequered ochreous and brown; hind¬ 
wing brownish ochreous, with fuscous terminal border. Known only from the Khasia Hills, Assam. 
P. poliomera Hmps. (15 k). Forewing ochreous tinged in places with rufous; the subcostal area po Homer a. 
through cell to apex pale, becoming white at apex; a large whitish patch on inner margin, not quite 
reaching base or tornus, limited above by the median vein and vein 2; terminal area beyond outer line 
redder, limited above by an oblique streak from below apex; inner line obscure; stigmata as in spicea ; 
also the black patch below lower angle of cell; outer line waved and dentate, bent out to inner margin 
beyond the white patch; submarginal line wavy, interrupted; a patch of black scaling at anal angle run¬ 
ning out into the red fringe; hinclwing pale brown, darker towards termen; fringe rufous brown. Khasia 
Hills, Assam, and Hainan; recorded also from China. 
P. spicea Guen. (15 k). Forewing ochreous tinged in parts with rufous brown, the costal area spicea. 
remaining paler; inner and outer lines very indistinct, the inner curved and marked with brown at costa, 
the outer followed by black and white vein points; inner margin between the lines marked with white 
scales; orbicular and reniform stigmata pale ochreous, the former round with dark dot at centre, the 
latter 8-shaped with a dark 8 inside, formed of dots; a rufous curved shade from apex broadening down¬ 
wards to anal angle, and touching with its inner edge the reniform stigma, at which point there is a 
black spot; the shade is blackened at anal angle, the black running out into the fringe; hindwing 
ochreous tinged with brown, the terminal area darker from apex to submedian fold in the whole 
wing brownish in $; — in the form pyrochroma Walk. (15 k) the head, thorax, and forewing are much pyrochroma. 
redder; —■ firina Swinh. has the forewing suffused with dark redbrown instead of rufous. — Larva firina. 
pink; dorsal area covered with small white spots; dorsal and subdorsal lines white; spiracular stripe 
broad, pale yellow; head greenish. Occurs in the Punjab, Bombay, Madras, Ceylon, and Java, whence 
Guenee’s type; also found in China. 
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KoC/h. 
P. dinawa Beth.-Baker (= nietarhoda Hmps.). Forewing pale rufous ochreous dusted with dinawa. 
_ blackish; subbasal line double, angled outwards below costa, then oblique; inner line faint, with black 
points on it, excurved below costa, then oblique and incurved at vein 1; outer line faint, double, bent 
outwards below costa, then denticulate, oblique inwards below vein 4; two obliquely placed dark brown 
marks from apex to outer line at vein 6; subterminal indistinct, pale, minutely waved, with black 
points at veins 4 and 3; orbicular and reniform pale, the former round, the latter constricted at middle 
with a black point in lower half, contained in a dark brown patch reaching submedian fold and outer 
line; hindwing pink, terminally suffused with fuscous brown; a slight cellspot, outer line, and terminal 
row of black points; the ab. innubila ah. nov. ( — ab. 1, Hmps.) is deeper rufous, without the brown innubila. 
blotch. British New Guinea. 
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P. hilaris Warr. (16 a). Forewing bright fulvous yellow; the inner margin brownish, with a hilaris. 
bluish white streak from near base to inner line at vein 1; inner line double, brown, oblique; claviform 
stigma fulvous with black spot at extremity; orbicular round, with brown outline; reniform large, figure 
of-8-shaped, containing some black dots and brown scales; median shade forming a large brown cloud on 
costa above stigmata, then reappearing as a curved brown shade from vein 5 to vein 1, touching outer 
line, which is lunulate dentate, brown and double, with black and white teeth on the veins; an oblique 
brown line from below apex to outer line at vein 5; subterminal line pale, defined by a dark shade preced¬ 
ing it, the inside of which is tinged with blue grey between veins 2 and 5; a whitish patch on inner 
margin at end of outer line; anal angle shaded with dark fuscous running out into the fringe, which 
is brown preceded by a row of small dark dots before termen; hindwing reddish suffused with fuscous. 
Occurs in New Guinea and Fergusson Island; allied to fuscostrigata Beth.-Baker, but much brighter and 
paler; all the examples seen are 
P. turpis Warr. (15 k). Forewing pale dull greenish in costal half (becoming more ochreous when turpis. 
