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line - the subterminal oblique from close to apex, white, deeply indented and lunulate outwards, with a few 
scattered black scales on its outer edge, and forming between veins 1 and 3 two larger white spots black-edged 
outwardly; terminal area olive; the terminal line darker; fringe olive with a pale line at base; hindwing whitish 
tinged wholly or terminally with grey in $, narrowly in <$. Guenee’s cochylioides was described from 
specimens from He Bourbon and lie de France; his rosita from Australia; phoenissa Led. from Syria; derogata 
Walk, from Ceylon; all apparently are one and the same species; in the ab. calida Rbl. (22 b) from the Canaries calula. 
and Syria, as also in the majority of Australian $$, the rosy tinge of fore wing is almost or altogether obso¬ 
lete; in the Indo-oriental region the species occurs at Formosa, in S. India and Ceylon, the Andamans, Java, 
Sumbawa, Queensland and N. S. Wales in Australia, and the Fiji Islands. 
P. confuscata spec. nov. (24 b). Forewing pale ochreous, tinged in places with yellow and grey; confuscaia. 
basal third of costa brown; inner line oblique outwards and fine to end of cell, then oblique inwards preceded 
by a broad brown shade, the basal area before it yellowish; outer line oblique outwards and angled on vein 
8 close before termen, then obliquely waved inwards to inner margin close to inner line, followed by a pale 
band from apex, traversed by a yellowish brown shade; subterminal line marked by 3 or 4 black dots below 
apex, and followed below vein 5 by an olive brownish terminal space, which is inwardly edged with blackish 
between veins 1 and 2; terminal line dark; fringe pinky grey; hind wing grey, whiter towards base; terminal 
line dark; fringe white; underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous, of hindwing white; face, palpi, and pro¬ 
thorax white; rest of thorax and dorsum tinged with pinkish grey. 2 S3 from Dawson district, Queensland. 
Allied to P. cochylioides , but without any pink, and the hindwing grey. 
P. roseana Moore (= ? pusilla Btlr.) (22 c). Forewing yellowish white, the area between the median roseana. 
and outer lines purplish pink, except at costa; median line diffuse, pale rufous, very oblique, the costa 
pale rufous before it; outer line deep purplish pink, externally slightly whitish, very oblique from costa to 
vein 7 near termen, incurved below vein 4; an oblique rufous bar from apex, and a subterminal rufous 
patch between veins 3 and 1; hindwing yellowish white, tinged with rufous towards termen. An Indian 
species, found in the North in the Punjab, and in the South in Bombay, Madras, and Ceylon; in Hainan; and 
Queensland. 
P. exigua Walk. (= nuga Snell., parvula Moore). Forewing ochreous white; costa rufous towards exigua. 
base; median line oblique and slightly sinuous, brown with rufous suffusion before it; two black dots on disco- 
cellular; outer line rufous defined externally by whitish, oblique to vein 7, excurved to vein 4, then strongly 
incurved; subterminal white, denticulate, towards costa with black points externally, oblique to outer line at 
vein 4, and between veins 3 and 1 forming a dentate black mark with a whitish mark before it below 
submedian fold; terminal area rufous; hindwing whitish, tinged with dark, especially terminally; in the 
ab. intensa ah. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the rufous suffusion before median and outer lines is much darker. Re- intensa. 
corded from Bombay, whence the type of parvula, Madras, and Tonkin; occurs throughout South and 
Central Africa. 
P. parva Hbn. (= minuta Dup., chalybaea Swinh., nymphodora Meyr.) (Vol. 3, PI. 51 d). Forewing parva. 
pale ochreous, tinged with yellowish; the median shade preceded by brown suffusion, inwardly diffuse, 
outwardly concise, sinuous, projecting on each fold and edged with white; outer line brown, somewhat quadrately 
projecting between 6 and 4, edged with pale, and followed by a brown cloud running into apex; a black 
dot on discocellular; subterminal line pale, hardly marked, containing a black speck below apex; hindwing 
brownish grey, whiter towards base; in typical specimens the space between median and outer lines remains 
pale ochreous or brownish; in the ab. griseata Warr., especially in the $$, from Morocco, Spain, and Syria, griseata. 
this space is finely dusted with pearl grey; in the subsp. rubefacta Mab., from Corsica and Sicily, the basal rubefacta. 
and terminal areas of forewing are dark brown tinged with rosy; the brown median shade and its pale edging 
are very prominent; the hindwing dark. Found in most of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea 
and extending through Asia Minor to Turkestan, this species occurs in India, where it is recorded from 
Kangra, Allahabad, and Ferozepur in the Punjab; from Karachi, Sind, whence the type of chalybaea', 
from Pusa and Nainpur, Bengal; and from Bombay; while Meyrick’s type of nymphodora, if really the same 
species, came from Carnarvon, West Australia. The larva of the subsp. rubefacta is said to feed in the flowers 
and seedheads of Inula montana and viscosa and Centaurea calcitrapa in late autumn; while in India the spec¬ 
ies is said by Hampson to feed in the flowers of Kukraunda in July. 
P. rivula Moore (22 c). Forewing ochreous white, the costal area at base and the terminal half ex- rinilci. 
cept at costa suffused with rufous; an oblique ochreous brown median band, with slightly ^sinuous outer edge; 
