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PSEUDOZARBA. By W. Warren. 
mianoides. 
opella. 
obscurata. 
pauper. 
obsolela. 
orthopctes. 
semicolor. 
rufigrisea. 
leucopera. 
excavata. 
P. mianoides Hmps. (26 k). $ Forewing a mixture of dark red brown and grey; a broad ochreous white 
band tinged with rufous beyond median line; subbasal line double, waved, with some black at lower end; 
inner and median lines double, black; the inner waved; the inner arm of median waved, indistinct, the outer 
black, bounding the dark area, angled outwards below costa, bent inwards on sub median fold; cell spot black; 
outer line indistinct, excurved from below costa to vein 4, bent inwards to lower angle of cell and sinuous 
to inner margin; subterminal line pale, incurved on the folds, followed by short dark streaks at veins 5 and 3; 
terminal black lunules; hindwing fuscous brown; fringe whitish, brown at base; the $ has the outer area of 
forewing white with a grey patch beyond the cell, and the outer line more distinct. Ceylon; also recorded from 
British East Africa. 
P. opella Swinh. (26 k). Forewing greyish ochreous, basal area irrorated with dark brown, median area 
with black brown band, the terminal area, except towards apex, black brown; costal area at base black brown, 
interrupted by a pale subbasal striga; inner line blackish, obliquely curved; the dark median band diffusely 
streaked with silvery scales on the veins, bounded by black lines, the inner somewhat dentate, the outer 
excurved from below costa to submedian fold; a black discoidal bar; outer line dark brown, inwardly edged 
with silvery scales, excurved above incurved below vein 4, defined outwardly by a pale line followed by an 
olive brown band; subterminal line silvery, defined on inner side by black except towards costa; terminal 
black dots; fringe silvery grey and fuscous; hindwing greyish suffused with fuscous; a fine dark terminal 
line; fringe with the tips pale; the species varies greatly; in the ab. obscurata ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) 
the basal half of forewing and the whole hindwing are blacker; -—■ in ab. pauper ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) 
(26 k) the silvery markings are absent and the outer area is darker; perhaps a distinct species; — while in the 
ab. obsoleta ab. nov. (= ab. 4 Hmps.) the dark median band is represented only by a black spot in cell on its 
outer edge. Found in the Punjab, Sikkim, Sind, Bombay, and Madras, in India; also recorded from Mashona- 
land, S. Africa. 
P. orthopctes Meyr. (26 k). Forewing olive ochreous, dusted and tinged with light brickred; inner line 
double, reddish, angled outwards on subcostal vein and submedian fold and outcurved below vein 1, both 
arms blackish at costa; the median area deeper red, marked with blackish only just before the black median 
line and wider at inner margin; outer line and reniform mark rufous on a pale undusted pinkish ochreous 
space bounded by a straight rufous band; subterminal line pale grey preceded by blackish scaling; terminal 
area dark brown except at costa; a black terminal line thickened into a spot below costa; fringe iron grey; 
hindwing brownish grey; underside of fore wing grey speckled with blackish brown along costa; of hindwing 
paler speckled with brown along costa and tinged with fuscous at apex; head and thorax pinkish ochreous with 
a grey tinge; the dorsum grey; in the ab. semicolor ab. nov. (26 k) the inner half of wing is browner, the outer 
half pale whitish ochreous without the pink tinge. Queensland and S. Australia. 
P. rufigrisea spec. nov. (26 k). Forewing ochreous tinged with dark grey; the broad median fascia 
and narrow terminal area with the fringe dark grey; space between subbasal and inner lines and the band 
before subterminal line rufous; terminal grey area with short longitudinal dark streaks in the interspaces; 
outer line and reniform stigma dark grey; hindwing dark grey, paler base wards; underside glossy grey, the costa 
of both wings speckled with dark; head, thorax, and abdomen rufous grey. 1 $ from Sumba, December 1896 
(Everett). Type in Tring Museum. 
P. leucopera Hmps. Forewing with base and median area black, the antemedian area ochreous, 
the postmedian area white shading into yellow before the terminal area, which is blackish with a white patch 
at apex; an antemedian black dot above vein 1 and some on the inner edge of the black median area, 
representing the inner line; a black dot in middle of cell and small black lunule at its end; a black dot 
on costa beyond middle and a triangular patch towards apex with a fine black line from it limiting the blackish 
terminal area; terminal black dots and oblique white striae below middle and at tornus; hindwing greyish 
suffused with fuscous. Madras. 
P. excavata Walk. (26 1). Fore wing with basal half grey thickly irrorated with dark red brown, ter¬ 
minal half chocolate red mixed with some grey; lines double, redbrown; inner line sinuous, with a red brown 
rather diffuse line before it: outer line filled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique and 
edged outwardly with whitish; subterminal line grey, sinuous and waved; reniform with grey annulus preceded 
below by a black curve followed at middle by a black spot; terminal lunules brown; hindwing reddish brown 
tinged with grey; fringe grey at base and tips. Taken in the Nilgiri Hills and at Coimbatore, Madras. 
