PALARA. By W. Warren. 
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P. leucosticta Hmps. (23 k). Forewing bright rufous with slight black and silvery irroration; the costa leucosticta.. 
dark brown irrorated with silvery; subbasal and inner lines represented by white costal dots; cellspot black; 
outer line white, bent outwards below costa, then reduced to a series of fine white points, excurved to vein 4, 
then incurved; subterminal line white, angled inwards below costa, then pale and sinuous; a white subapical 
spot; a waved dark terminal line, with black and white dots in the interspaces; hindwing similar. Singa¬ 
pore. 
P. flavipuncta Hmps. (23 k). Forewing deep rufous with a few black and silvery scales; a black costal flavipuncta. 
dot denotes the inner line; cellspot round, black; outer line dark, marked with black spots on veins pointed 
with yeliow; a stronger black spot on costa and a small yellow spot at inner margin; a row of terminal 
black dots; hinclwing similar. Singapore. 
P. trichogyia Hmps. (25n). Forewing purplish rufous with slight dark and silvery irroration; a black sub- trichogyia. 
basal dot on costa; black dots on costa, median, and submedian vein represent the inner line; cellspot large, 
black and round; a small black sytot on costa above it; a terminal row of black dots; hindwing similar, with an 
outer series of slight white dots. Ceylon. 
P. niveicosta Hmps. (23 1). Forewing bright rufous with slight dark irroration; costa pure white, niveicosta. 
crossed by subbasal, inner, and outer black bars and a short streak towards apex with a white point on it; 
cellspot dark; outer line dark, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and again outbent towards inner margin; a 
fine dark terminal line with black and white dots in the intervals; hindwing paler rufous. Sarawak, Borneo. 
P. albicinctalis Walk. (241). Foi ewing olive brown, the costa pale rufous tinged with crimson, particularly albicindalis. 
towards apex, and irrorated with silvery scales; the base pale rufous; a small elongate white spot below 
middle of costa, and yellowish lunule at end of cell; outer line dark, strongly bent outwards below costa, defined 
by white above, then oblique and punctiform; subterminal line crenulate, blackish, with silvery scales before 
it and a series of white spots beyond it with rufous between them; hindwing similar. Sarawak and Sandakan, 
Borneo; $$ only known. 
P. atrimargo Hmps. (27 h). Fore wing yellowish with red suffusion; the costal and terminal areas atrimargo. 
black brown dusted with silvery scales, broad at apex, inwardly defined by a black line; a dark cell spot; 
hindwing with faint outer line, and terminal band as in forewing. Sandakan, Borneo. 
P. costipicta Hmps. (25 n). Forewing purplish brown with a grey tinge; costa yellow r suffused with crimson; costipicta. 
inner and outer lines dark, wavy, indistinct, starting from small wdiitish costal spots; a small elongate white 
mark on costa at apex; a series of black striae before termen; fringe tipped with crimson, with a fine pale ba¬ 
sal line; hindwing the same. Sikkim. The $ only known. 
P. argyrota Hmps. (23 1). Forewing whitish suffused with pale rufous, and with slight black and sil- argyroia. 
very irroration; the costa white towards base; inner line dark, inwardly oblique, from a black costal spot; cell- 
spot dark; outer line excurved from a black costal spot, slightly marked on the outer side by whitish, to 
vein 4, then incurved; a crenulate pale subterminal line, with dark diffuse marks beyond it between veins; 
fringe orange yellow; hindwing similar. Described from a $ from Sangir. The position of the last 3 species 
is doubtful, as the $<§ are not yet known. 
P. albipunctulata spec. nov. (23 1). Forewing dull redbrown with an olive tinge; costa white to outer albipunc- 
line, the white spots beyond coalescent; inner and outer lines dark, obscure; the outer lunulate dentate, the tulata. 
teeth w'hite-pointed on veins; a dark cellspot; terminal spots white inwardly edged with black; hindwing 
similar; the inner margin and fringe silvery white; underside yellowish luteous, the forewing in costal % suffused 
with reddish; vertex and base of antennal shaft white; face, palpi, pectus, forelegs, thorax, and dorsum deep 
redbrown. Several specimens from the Angabunga River, British New Guinea, 6000 feet, Nov. 1904 to Feb. 
1905 (A. S. Meek). Type in Tring Museum. 
P. squamigera spec. nov. (231). Differs from albipunctulata, with which it agrees in coloration and in the squamigera. 
terminal dots, in having 3 white costal spots at origin of subbasal, inner, and outer lines; vertex only white; 
the shaft of antennae red, in the <$ with a small comb of scales at l / 3 from base. Biagi, Mambare River, 
British New Guinea, April 1906 (A. S. Meek). Type in Tring Museum. 
