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P. erythriris Hmps. (18 e). Forewing deep purplish brown with violaceous grey suffusion instead erythriris. 
of the bluish dusting of ruficosta; the subbasal and inner lines both double, and diffusely violaceous grey, 
more or less coalescent; outer line double, lunulate dentate, filled in with violaceous, followed by a broad 
band of the same colour widening towards apex; subterminal line reddish, irregularly crenulate, preceded 
by a band of dark ground colour narrowing at each end; claviform stigma small, violaceous, with thick 
black outline; orbicular and reniform conversely oblicpie, with violaceous centres and rufous annuli, the 
former elongate, narrow; the latter with outer edge ochreous, produced inwardly along median vein to 
below orbicular; dark lunules along termen; fringe with a pale basal line; hindwing pale olive fuscous 
with darker outer and subterminal shades. This species occurs only in the Khasia Hills, Assam; the <$ 
only is known at present. 
P. flammifera Warr. (18 e). Larger than erythriris, the violaceous grey suffusion wider and paler; flammifera. 
the edges of the stigmata ochreous, tinged with rufous, the lower half of reniform flame-yellow; hind¬ 
wing olive fuscous, darker terminally; the veins dark, thickened terminally into spots in the terminal 
line. Sikkim, N. India; described from a single $. 
P. nigritula Warr. (18 e). Forewing deep purple black on a dull red-ground, which shows only nigritula. 
in a postmedian band, in the spots of the subterminal line, in the outlines of the stigmata, and at 
base of each fold; lines obscure, double, intensely black; the outer dentate lunulate, the teeth black 
along .veins, which are themselves dark; claviform stigma black, pointed; a deep black line above it 
below median; orbicular elongate, narrow, with red outline; reniform with central lunule and inner edge 
red, outer half a yellowish white semicircle with a small dot above and one or two below it; terminal 
intervals as well as the veins purplish black; fringe concolorous, with pale basal line; hindwing olive 
luteous suffused with pale fuscous, with darker outer line and subterminal shade. Khasia Hills, Assam. 
P. dissimulans Warr. (18e). Resembles nigritula, but cpiite distinct; purplish black but with dissimulans. 
a bluer tinge; the two folds streaked obscurely with dull red brown, and the subterminal line interrup¬ 
tedly marked with rufous ochreous, but no red postmedian band; the claviform stigma broad and blunt, 
thickly outlined with black, and with no black line above it; orbicular stigma rounded, purple black 
with a deep black outline; reniform with large black outline except externally, where it is interrupted 
across the middle by the brown streak of the cellfold and marked by some ochreous scales, with two 
white dots in the black outline at lower outer end; subterminal line obscurely preceded and followed 
by black dashes; fringe dark powdery fuscous, with a faintly paler crenulate middle line; hindwing bronzy 
olive fuscous, paler basewards, with only a dark submarginal shade shown; fringe fuscous with pale 
line at base. Hazara, N. W. India. 
P. metallica Walk. (18 e). ForeAving dark brown black on a ground of dull red brown, mwah metallic a. 
as in nigritula , but not nearly so dark; the claviform stigma Avith some red broAvn in it and black edged, 
broad and blunt at end, without a dark line above it; orbicular broader and shorter, broAvn at centre 
Avith the outline rufous ochreous; the reniform with inner edge ochreous not rufous, the outer white 
spots as in harfordi\ a dark blotch on inner margin before inner line, and another in submedian interval 
betAveen median shade and outer line; hindwing as in nigritula. Sikkim; Subathu, Kulu, in the Punjab. 
P. harfordi Hmps. (18 f). This may be a form of metallica-, it may be distinguished by the harjordi. 
redbroAvn streak of outer band being produced inwards to touch the reniform stigma. Subathu, Punjab. 
P. humilis Warr. (18f). ForeAving purplish fuscous; the cell and a blotch on submedian fold humilis. 
between median shade and outer line darker; also the toav of wedge-shaped marks before subterminal 
line; the lines as in metallica, but the upper stigmata both larger, purplish grey; the orbicular black- 
edged, the reniform with fulvous ring, interrupted by a pale smear across the middle, without any pale 
dots; hindAving olive fuscous Avith darker central line and subterminal border, folloAved by a distinct 
narrow subviolaceous band; fringe with a pale line at base. Khasia Hills, Assam. 
P. rufistigma Warr. (18 f). Forewing deep purplish fuscous, darkest in cell and submedian inter - rufisligma. 
val, and along the praesubmarginal band, thickly dusted with lustrous blue scales in basal area, along 
the lines and margins of stigmata, and beyond outer and subterminal lines; claviform diffusely black 
edged; the upper stigmata with blue annuli; the outer edge of reniform Avith a large rufous patch; 
the praeapical costal spots silvery white; hindwing bronzy olive fuscous, the fringe and terminal line 
darker. Sikkim. 
P. luteistigma Warr. (18f). Smaller than rufistigma, the blue scales deeper; the annulus of luteistigma. 
orbicular stigma showing pale beneath the blue scales; the reniform A\ r ith a pale dull ochreous patch 
in middle of outer edge instead of rufous; the hindwing much paler basewards and with darker terminal 
border; fringe with the tips whitish. Darjiling, Sikkim. A form of this last, intermediate in size be- 
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