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AUTOBA. By W. Warren. 
roseonivea. P. roseonivea Walk. Forewing creamy white with a slight rufous tinge except on costal and terminal 
area; black brown subbasal, inner, and median dots on costa; cell spot black; a sinuous median line from 
cell to inner margin; subterminal line preceded by deep rufous suffusion except at costa, acutely angled 
outwards at vein 6, inangled on cell fold, excurved to near termen on vein 2, inangled on submedian 
fold, and ending at tornus, followed by black points between veins 2 and 4; fringe rufous; hindwing similar; 
curvilinea. in the ? ab. curvilinea ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the subterminal line in both wings is more curved and not 
inangled on submedian interval. Borneo and the Philippines. 
vestalis. P. vestalis Btlr. (22 1). Forewing pure white; the costal edge rufous on basal half; two oblique black 
brown striae on costa beyond middle, followed by a line oblique from costa to vein 7 close to termen, 
then inwardly oblique and more or less obsolete, with some rufous suffusion in its angle; a rufous subapical 
patch with tAvo dark striae on costa above it and a small black lunule on its outer edge; a rufous subter¬ 
minal band except towards apex, crenulate on its inner edge and Avith black points at the indentations; ter¬ 
minal line finely redbrOAvn; fringe rufous with white tips; hindAving pure Avhite Avith fine broAvn terminal 
line. Peak Downs, Queensland. 
innocens. P. innocens Btlr. (22 1). F oreAving white with a slight broAvn tinge except on costal area to beyond 
middle; the costal edge orange, towards base dark brown; minute dark median and outer costal points in the 
cj only; from the outer point a slight oblique orange striga; a subterminal row of small black dots; fringe 
yellow, the tips broAvnish; hindwing white, terminally rufous; a fine broAvn terminal line; head and tegulae 
orange. Queensland, Peak Doaatls and Brisbane. 
ctgrapta. P. agrapta Hmps. (221). ForeAving pale pinkish irrorated Avith sparse black scales; the costa whitish 
to beyond middle, its edge broAvn toAvards base; an indistinct punctiform dark outer line, oblique from costa 
to vein 6, then imvardly oblique to middle of inner margin; subterminal black dots; terminal line fulvous; 
hindAving whitish, broAvn along the terminal area. Ceylon. 
conspersa. P. conspersa Btlr. (= acervalis Swinh., quadrinotata Moore). ForeAving ochreous white, sorne- 
what tinged with rufous and except on inner marginal area dusted with brown, leaving more or less 
distinct pale streaks on the veins of terminal area; a slight dark shade in cell fold from before middle to termen; 
obscure black dots in cell and at end; subterminal black dots from costa to vein 3; hinclAving ochreous 
Avith broAvn dusting. India, Ceylon, Formosa. Butler’s conspersa from the last locality; Savinhoe’s acervalis 
from Mhow, Bombay; quadrinotata Moore from the Punjab. 
bulla. P. bulla Swinh. (27 g). $ Head and thorax white; palpi, legs, and antennae tinged with brown; 
the abdomen with ochreous; forewing white, with faint broAvn suffusion and irroration; hindwing pure 
pura. white; in the $ the head, thorax, and Avings are more or less strongly tinged with red broAvn; the ab. pura 
Swinh. is larger; the forewing Avith a faint oblique brown shade from apex. The type from Karachi, Sind, 
N. W. India; the aberration (probably a good species) from Poona, Bombay. 
28. Genus : Autol>a Walk. 
Tongue well-developed; Irons smooth; palpi upturned, stout, thickly scaled, the third segment 
short; antennae of $ shortly ciliated; thorax and abdomen thickly scaled, (the scales often coarse), without 
crests; forewing triangular, the apex prominent, the termen evenly curved; no areole; veins 8, 9, 10 
being stalked and 11 from cell; the retinaculum, somewhat bar-shaped, covered by a tuft of hair; hindwing 
with cell half as long as Aving; veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 from angles of cell. Insects of stouter and stronger build than 
Porphyrinia ; the larvae feed on various low plants and form a small cocoon attached to a leaf or stem; 
? some feAv live on Coccidae. Type A. versicolor Walk. 
olivacea. A. olivacea Walk. (= nebulifera Walk.) (22 d). ForeAving ochreous white, slightly irrorated Avith olive 
green, the costal area with brownish; the lines faint; the inner whitish, slightly excurved; the median pale, 
oblique from costa to loAver angle of cell, then incurved; a slight oblique blackish discoidal striga on 
an olive green spot, Avith a patch from its loAver extremity curved round and up to apex and diffused to termen 
Avhere it extends to vein 2; a reddish tinge beyond upper angle of cell; outer line whitish, excurved 
from costa to vein 5, thence obliquely incurved; a subterminal blackish spot at vein 6; the apex rufous; 
