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P. ragusana Frr. (= cinerina Ghil., psilogramma Led., quinquelinealis Moore, polygramma Hmps. ragusana. 
nec Dup.) (Vol. 3, PL 51 g). Forewing white tinged with rosy grey, the costa and base remaining 
white; lines slightly darker grey outwardly pale-edged; inner line sharply angled on subcostal and again 
bluntly on submedian fold, inwardly oblique below the angles; median line projecting beaklike outwards 
on vein 7 and outer line more bluntly just beyond it; subterminal line white edged outwardly with dark; 
apex white with a chestnut brown blotch containing two black dots; terminal line reddish; fringe white; hind¬ 
wing white, tinged with grey and with traces of lines; terminal line dark and distinct; the $ is larger 
and paler with only slight rosy tinge; the fringe simply grey; in the <$ the grey fringe is strigulated with dark. 
Ragusana Frr. was described from Dalmatia; psilogramma Led. from Syria; quinquelinealis Moore from 
the Andamans; the species occurs in the Punjab, Bhutan, Bengal, Madras in India; in Burma, Sin¬ 
gapore, Java, New Guinea, and Queensland; also in S. and E. Africa.— The form virginea Guen. (24 b) from virginea. 
Java is almost entirely suffused with deep pink; the subsp. dividens Lucas (24 b) from Australia is dividens. 
larger and paler. 
P. bilineata Hmps. (24 b). Forewing grey, thickly and minutely irrorated with white except bilineata. 
on basal area; costal area white to beyond middle; costal edge yellow at base; a black dot at middle 
of costa; median and outer lines black at costa, then brown, acutely angled outwards on vein 6, then ob¬ 
lique inwards; some orange yellow on costa towards apex, and a quadrate black brown spot at apex defined 
by white; a fine dark terminal line; fringe brown, with fine yellow lines at base and near tips; hindwing whitish 
suffused with fuscous; dark outer and terminal lines. Recorded only from the Punjab: Simla, Kulu, Kangra 
Valley. 
P. ignefusa Hmps. (25 1). Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous and irrorated with sparse black ignefusa. 
scales; some fiery red scales on base of inner margin; inner line ill-defined, fiery red, bent inwards 
below subcostal vein, then oblique to inner margin; a fiery red cell spot, with its lower extremity produced 
as a patch to outer line, which is indistinctly double, denticulate, excurved to vein 2 and inangled in 
submedian fold; a large fiery red apical patch; a series of fiery red terminal dots; hindwing whitish 
suffused with rufous, with some sparse black scales; a fiery red cellspot, with lower extremity produced; 
a pale crenulate outer line; terminal dots black. Singapore, Malay peninsula; described from a single <$. 
P. rhodocraspis Druce (24 c). Forewing creamy white; small rufous subbasal and inner dots on rhodocras- 
costa; a diffuse rufous bar from middle of costa; a black cell striga; a round rufous spot beyond pis ' 
lower angle of cell, with curved pinkish band from it to inner margin just before tornus; the apical area 
and termen tinged with rufous; subterminal line whitish, outwardly defined by a few black scales, 
angled outwards below 7, excurved at middle, ending on termen above tornus; terminal line rufous; 
fringe white tinged with pink; hindwing creamy white to beyond middle, the cellspot marked by some black 
scales; terminal area pale pink, its inner edge straight and marked with blood red scales; a series of spots 
of loose black scales from apex to tornus above which they are mixed with white. Elopura, Borneo; described 
from a single $. 
P. carneola Hmps. (24 c). Forefaing creamy white, tinged with red brown; the space between cameola. 
end of cell and subterminal line pale reddish brown with a purplish tinge except towards costa; redbrown 
inner and median dots on costa; an obscure sinuous line from ‘yell to inner margin; a black dot in middle 
of cell and small spot at its end; a very oblique outer redbrown streak from costa; stibterminal line white, 
internally defined by red brown, excurved below 7 and inangled on cell fold, then again excurved to near 
termen, followed by red brown at costa; hindwing with basal area creamy white tinged with red brown; an 
oblique wavy redbrown median line from cell to inner margin, becoming purplish red towards the white 
subterminal line, which is somewhat dentate and outwardly defined by blackish scales towards costa. Only 
known from Borneo. 
P. amabilis Moore. Forewing creamy white; the space between median and subterminal lines pale amdbilis. 
rufous except towards costa; inner line marked only by a few dark scales from middle of cell to inner margin; 
median line rufous, indistinct, angled outwards below costa, then oblique; outer line rufous, oblique from 
costa to vein 6, followed by a white bar and rufous patch beyond; subterminal line white, preceded by 
deep rufous suffusion, strongly sinuous; terminal area rufous except towards apex; hindwing creamy white, 
suffused, except on costa and at base, with pinkish rufous; a diffuse rufous median line marked with black 
scales; the rest as in forewing. Larva white with a dark head; feeding on the Lac insect, Tachardia lacca, 
under the resinous coating of which it forms a web connected by a silken tube with the open air. Recorded 
from the Punjab, Sikkim, and Madras; Ceylon; and Singapore. 
