220 PORPHYRINIA. By W. Warren. 
in spun together shoots of low plants, pupating in a cocoon formed among rubbish on the ground. Type P. 
ostrina Hbn. 
trifasciata. p, trifasciata Moore (= demba Swinh.). Forewing white suffused with brown, except on costal area; 
the costa with 5 small fuscous spots; inner, median, and outer lines indistinct, pale and oblicpie from costal 
area to inner margin; subterminal line whitish, incurved below costa and excurved at middle and tor- 
nus, with black scales on its outer edge, and some small black spots towards costa on a bright ruf¬ 
ous apical patch, which has a small dark mark on termen below apex; fringe white tinged with brownish, 
rufous at apex; hindwing white, suffused with brownish except at base; an ill defined oblique white 
median line. The type from Sarawak, Borneo; also from Pusa and Calcutta in Bengal, and Gooty in 
Madras; the proves to be without a fovea, and the insect must be placed in Porphyrinia. 
ostrina. P. ostrina Hbn. (= purpurata Led.) (Vol. 3, PI. 51 d). Forewing cream white, slightly tinged with 
pale brown in basal half and in terminal area; median shade diffuse, slightly outcurved, followed immediately 
by a black dot representing the reniform stigma; just beyond it on the costa an oblique purplish bar 
to vein 6 represents the outer line; subterminal line whitish, sharply indented on each fold and outcurved 
between, the interval between the two lines filled with purple except at costa beyond median line; the 
interspaces between the veins often streaked with deeper purple; a purple spot, at apex with a blackish 
speck in it below; a purplish streak from base below cell; terminal line brown, inwardly edged with 
white; fringe white brownish in middle; hindwing brownish grey, darker along termen; terminal line 
aestivalis, dark; fringe white; — in aestivalis (Vol. 3, PI. 51 d) Guen., probably the early summer brood, the purplish 
tint is restricted to the shade immediately before the subterminal line; the hindwings are paler, in the $ almost 
carthami. white, and the examples are smaller in expanse; — in carthami H.-Sch. .(= numida Luc.) supposed to be a 
later summer brood, the creamy ground is faintly tinged with pale brown along median line and on each side 
of the submarginal, which is sometimes accompanied externally by a few isolated black scales; apical patch 
grey brown; hindwing creamy, tinged with brown before termen; fringe white. Larva greyish yellow, with 
pale yellow dorsal line, prominent at the segmental incisions, and similar subdorsal and spiracular lines; head 
brown; feeding on Helichrysum and Carlina. This very widely distributed palaearctic species has been taken 
at Deesa, Bombay, in southern India. 
seminivea. P. seminivea Hmps. (22 b). Forewing pure white in basal half, bloodrecl in the terminal; subbasal and 
inner black costal points; an erect blackish median line dividing the two areas, very faintly angled 
outwards on each fold; a white patch on costa before apex; traces of a sinuous whitish subterminal line with 
minute black points on its outer edge; fringe white powdered with rufous, except at base and tips; hindwing 
white; the terminal area brown tinged. The type, a from Aden in Arabia; another $ from British East 
Africa; and 5 from Gooty, Madras, are recorded by Hampson. 
albipur- P. albipurpurea spec. nov. (24b). Forewing pure white; outer line purple, erect, just beyond the 
pnrea. middle; subterminal line close before termen, dentate lunulate; the space between them except at costa, greyish 
purple; fringe purplish grey; hindwing and fringe pure white; underside of forewing dull purplish grey, of hind¬ 
wing white with the costa grey; head, thorax, and abdomen white; middle segments of dorsum purple grey; palpi 
purple. Kumasi River, British New Guinea, July 1907 (A. S. Meek); $$ only. Type in Tring Museum. 
anachoresis. P. anachoresis Wlngrn. (= accedens Fldr., divisa Moore, leonata Btlr.) (22 b). Forewing with basal 
half yellow, terminal half purplish pink, with rufous tinge before subterminal line; a pinkish tinge in base 
of cell; the yellow basal area is limited by the fine oblique black median line, the subbasal and inner 
lines being represented by black costal dots; two minute black dots on discocellular; outer line brown, oblique 
to vein 7, and inangled on both folds; subterminal line very close to termen, sinuous, white with black 
points on the outer edge; terminal line pink; hindwing ochreous yellow, tinged with dark terminally. A 
widely distributed insect, occurring in the Punjab, Bengal, and Bombay in India, Ceylon, the Andamans, 
Java, and Queensland; also common throughout Africa, whence the types of anachoresis and accedens; the 
derufata. ab. derufata ab. nov , (24 b) is without any pink tinge, the broad outer band being brown with 
the edges darker; this is quite as common as the typical form in Queensland. 
cochylioides. P. cochylioides Guen. (= rosita Guen., phoenissa Led., derogat.a Walk.) (22 b). Forewing in basal 
half ochreous yellow, tinged with olive along costa and before an oblique median line, beyond which to the 
subterminal line the ground colour is rosy, with sometimes an outAvardly angled deeper rosy outer 
