crythro- 
glauca. 
minuta. 
flavicincla. 
purpuras- 
cens. 
nivciceps. 
rubrifus- 
caria. 
albitegulata. 
rosea. 
parva. 
208 PENISA. By W. Warren. 
Larva feeding on lichen with fragments of which, spun on to its body or a web over it, it conceals itself; 
pupates in a small lichen-covered ball suspended by a thread. 
P. erythroglauca Hmps. (22 h). Fore wing pale olive, suffused with deep blood red, except at base 
and along costal and terminal areas; a black costal dot close to base; inner line deep red, indistinct 
excurved from a black costal dot; cellspot small, deep red; outer line deep red, from a black costal 
dot, finely edged outwardly with white, excurved above middle, then incurved; subterminal whitish; fringe 
yellowish; hind wing blood red, slightly dusted with silvery; whitish inner and outer bands; cellspot red; 
termen and fringe yellowish. Larva green, without ventral claspers; feeds on a minute lichen with bits of 
which it covers the web under which it lives; cocoon suspended by a thread. Ceylon. 
P. minuta Hmps. (22 e). Forewing with a silky gloss, pale purplish red; the costal area paler; inner, 
median, and outer black costal dots; a slight oblicpie dark striga from the median; outer line oblique to vein 6, 
then obscurely punctiform; a fine bloodred terminal line; fringe yellowish; hindwing with a bloodred discoidal 
bar, and a waved yellowish white median line; the rest as in fore wing; vertex and shaft of antennae 
white. Ceylon. 
P. flavicincta Hmps. (22 g). Forewing purplish brown; the costal area and termen yellow with 
a silvery gloss; cellspot black; outer line whitish, curved and minutely waved; terminal black points; 
fringe yellow; hindwing purplish brown dusted with black and silvery scales; cell spot blackish; a pale 
outer line; termen yellowish with a row of black dots and yellow fringe. Described from a $ from 
Singapore; also from Biagi, Mambare River, New Guinea; these specimens have all three lines dark, 
outwardly pale-edged; the fringe of inner margin of hindwing yellow. 
P. purpurascens Hmps. (22 h). Forewing deep purple red glossed with silver; costal edge white, 
except at base and middle; postmedian area rather paler; termen and fringe bright yellow; inner line dark, 
erect, minutely waved, obscure; outer more distinct, oblique to vein 6, then minutely waved, and incurved 
below vein 4; hindwing similar. Ceylon. 
P. niveiceps Trnr. (22 m). Forewing pink; the costa and terminal half suffused with blackish, 
dusted with silvery scales; lines pink; a pink costal striga near base; inner line sinuous; outer obscure, 
excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved, whitish edged externally towards inner margin; 
cellspot and terminal line black; fringe pinkish orange; hindwing similar. Kuranda, Queensland. 
P. rubrifuscaria Hmps. (22 m). Forewing deep purplish red suffused with brown, especially on ter¬ 
minal area; an indistinct minutely waveel outer line; termen and fringe orange yellow, with deep red scales 
beyond the dark area; hindwing similar; vertex and base of antennae white. Ceylon. 
P. albitegulata spec. nov. (24 a). Very close to rubrifuscaria Hmps. from Ceylon, but the vertex 
like the face is purplish and the tegulae are snow white; the inner and outer lines on both wings are distinct, 
deeper red, both wavy and slightly outcurved in middle. Several examples from the Kliasia Hills, Assam. 
Type in the Tring Museum. 
P. rosea Hmps. (22e). Forewing deep purplish pink dusted with dark; terminal area tinged with whit¬ 
ish, the costal edge pinker, the termen'deep purple; inner and median lines barely traceable; outer 
line distinct, minutely waved, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved; fringe orange yellow, 
deep red at base and apex; cellspot dark; hindwing similar; vertex and base of antennae pure white. 
Ceylon. 
P. parva Beth.-Baker (22 e). Forewing whitish, tinged and irrorated with pink; the costa deep blood 
red with scattered silvery scales; inner line curved, red, slender; outer excurved to vein 4, thence incurved; 
termen blackish with some silvery scales; fringe pinkish white; cellspot deep red; hindwing similar; 
indistinct diffused red outer and subterminal lines. The type, a from the Aroa River, British New 
Guinea; recorded also from Mackay, Queensland. 
