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P. rubrescens spec. nov. (24 a). Forewing grey suffused with dull red; the costa deep red; lines rubrescens. 
indistinct; the inner curved, reddish; the outer lunulate dentate, marked darker on the veins; a faint sub- 
terminal line, sometimes ending in a grey shade on inner margin; cellspot a narrow black lunule; a fine 
dark terminal line; fringe reddish; hindwing with outer line marked; the tips of fringe yellow; underside 
grey; the fringes red; face, palpi, and tegulae deep red; thorax and abdomen grey tinged with red. 2 
4 $$, from Biagi, Mambare River, and the Angabunga River, British New Guinea. Type in Tring Museum. 
Allied to P. parva Beth.-Baker , but larger and duller. 
P. poliorhoda Hmps. (22 g). Forewing pale purplish pink mixed with whitish and irrorated with silvery poliorhoda. 
and deep purple scales; the costa rather redder, the termen deep purple with silvery irroration; inner 
line dark, inwardly oblicpie; a waved median line from cell to inner margin; outer line oblique from 
costa to vein 6, then minutely waved, indistinct; terminal line blackish; fringe orange yellow; hindwing similar, 
with a blackish cellspot and diffuse outer line excurved at middle; the orange yellow fringe with some 
red scales at base. Ceylon. 
P. atricincta Hmps. (22 e). Forewing pale purplish pink mixed with whitish; the costa and termen atridncta. 
blackish; an inwardly oblique inner line with dark points on the veins; a dark bar at end of cell; 
outer line punctiform, oblique from costa to cell fold, then incurved; subterminal line whitish, indistinct, 
slightly dentate and excurved at middle, with some dark scales on its inner edge, and a dark patch before it on 
costa dotted with white; fringe orange yellow; hindwing similar, but the outer line edged outwardly with 
whitish and marked with black dots towards inner margin. Ceylon. 
P. oblataria Walk. (= violacea Lucas) (22 e). Forewing rufous with slight black irroration; the costa oblafaria. 
and termen blackish with a silvery gloss; inner line slight, dark, inwardly oblique, with whitish scaling on 
its inner edge; outer line oblique to vein 6, incurved and denticulate below vein 4, outwardly whitish 
edged; subterminal indistinct, pale and waved; cellspot black; fringe yellowish tinged with red; hindwing 
similar; two forms of variation occur; in ab. conversa ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the median and post- converse 
median areas of forewing and the basal half of hindwing are deeper red; the ab. mediopicta ah. nov. mediopicta-. 
{= ab. 2 Hmps.) has the median area of both wings blotched with black on inner margin. The larva 
is smooth and cylindrical, covered with fragments of the lichen on which it feeds, arranged in tufts on 
different segments; cocoon covered with lichen and suspended by a thread. Ceylon, Malay peninsula, 
and Queensland. 
P. regulata Walk. (22 e). Forewing white, sparsely dusted with rufous and large black scales; the costa regulata. 
rufous with silvery scales; black points at base of cell and costa; a diffused black band from costa before middle 
to near base of inner margin; median line blackish, oblique towards costa and inner margin, and outwardly 
angled on subcostal nervure and submedian fold; cellspot round and black; outer line blackish, out- 
bent from costa, angled inwards on both folds, and incurved below 4; subterminal line blackish, denticulate, 
twice excurved; fringe deep rufous, yellowish at tips; hindwing similar; with a black mark at base of inner 
margin; an irregular black subbasal line; some terminal rufous striae; the rest as in forewing; head 
and thorax white; the palpi, frons, antennae, thorax, and legs tinged with rufous; abdomen white, with fine 
black segmental lines on dorsum and some black scales at base. The type fromMoulmein, Burma; also found in 
Ceylon. 
P. algae Hmps. (22 g). Forewing white partly tinged with rufous and irrorated with black; black algae. 
subbasal and antemedian dots on costa; median line blackish, oblique from costa to the small round black 
cellspot, then inwardly oblique and dentate; outer line black, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved 
below 4, and angled outwards on vein 1; subterminal line blackish, dentate, with redbrown suffusion on inner 
side; a maculate black brown terminal line confluent with subterminal line on the two folds; fringe white 
mixed with rufous and black brown; hindwing rufous, dusted with blackish; outer line blackish, out¬ 
wardly edged with white, except towards costa, and irregularly dentate; terminal black dots. 
Recorded only from Belgaum, Madras. 
P. lichenostola Hmps. (22 g). Forewing white irrorated with black; the median area suffused with lichevostola. 
fuscous; basal and subbasal black dots on costa; inner line wavy, black; outer line dentate, black, oblique 
to vein 4, strongly inangled on submedian fold; subterminal line defined only by a blackish costal patch before 
it and reddish brown patches at middle and tornus beyond it; terminal line black and waved; fringe rufous; 
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