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indistinct exterior dentate line composed of tiny crescents, the dents on the veins marked black and white. 
Fringe with white dots at the base and apex. The apices of the 2nd and 3rd palpal joints, the base of the 
antennae, 2 spots on the collar, 2 at the tegnlae, and the metathoracal comb white; abdominal dorsum greyish 
brown. Sikkim in North India. A large species. 
P. albomaculata Wr. (30 f). Forewing coppery blackish brown, a bluish white subbasal streak from albomacu- 
the costal margin, 1 or 2 spots behind it; interior line indistinctly darker, proceeding from a light costal-marginal 
spot, and with few light tiny scales on the inside; ring-macula round, inside with somewhat greyish white 
scales; the reniform macula is a large white spot, with a whitish lunule before it and with tiny white dots at 
the angles, 2 above and 1 below inside, and 1 above and 2 below outside. Exterior and subterminal lines badly 
marked, the denticles of the former with few small grey scales, the spots at the costal margin larger. Small 
white marginal dots at the base and small spots at the apex of the fringe. Metathoracal comb white. Hind¬ 
wing bronzy dark brown. Sikkim in North India. 
P. africuprea Hm.ps. (30 g /Ms atricurvea] and Vol. 3, pi. 45 1). Forewing lustrous blackish brown strewn atricuprea. 
with small white scales. Interior and exterior lines black, the former obliquely undulated, small white scales 
before it, the latter dentate with a white streak at the costal margin. Subterminal line indistinct, dark, with 
a white costal-marginal streak. Ring-macula and reniform macula surrounded by black, the former round, 
the latter with a distinct small white moon at the exterior edge, slightly bent inward on the median vein. Hind¬ 
wing greyish dark brown with a dark cellular spot and an exterior line, somewhat whitish along the margin 
through the submedian area. Khasia Hills in Assam; also near Yatong in Sikkim, and Tibet. 
P. dolorosa Wkr. (= taprobanae Fldr., albomaculata Semp. nec Mr.) (30 f). Forewing dark brown, dolorosa. 
lines and markings dark, accompanied by ochreous scales; interior and exterior lines of small crescents, alter¬ 
nately dentate, will ochreous markings before the interior line, the exterior line is followed by small black 
crescents and black and white dots on the veins. Subterminal line formed by small whitish ochreous spots 
and black dents before them. Hindwing brownish grey, veins and marginal band dark brown. — Larva brown, 
on Conyza balsamifera. It occurs in South India in Bombay and Madras, in Ceylon; the Philippines and the 
Fidji Is. Also from Kin Kiang in South China. 
P. galaxia Btlr. (30 g). Like atricuprea, but dark blackish brown, dusted light, lines and markings galaxia. 
blackish. Interior and exterior lines of small crescents and alternately dentate, the dents marked with white 
dots. Ring-macula of the ground-colour, surrounded by black; reniform macula narrow, white with some 
black dots and lunules inside. Subterminal line whitish, undulate, with 3 deeper and whiter indentations, 
one at the costal margin, the 2 others at the folds, the space before them darker. A chain of small black cres¬ 
cents at the margin. Hindwing as in atricuprea. In the Punjab in North West India; also found in Kashmir. 
P. ochrisquamata sp. n. (30 f). Forewing dark brown, tinged with red; 2 or 3 white dots at the base; ochrisqua- 
a subbasal white dot at the costal margin; interior line marked by a white dot at the costal margin and a 
light dot on the submedian fold on vein 1. Ring-macula oblique, almost square, with a white border on the 
sides, which is sometimes divided into dots, and a few small white scales in the centre. The reniform macida 
is a large whitish lunule enclosing a brown line and surrounded by 7 irregular white dots, 3 at the apex and 4 
below. Exterior line indistinct, of small crescents, dentate; the dents and partly also the lunules marked white. 
Subterminal line double, the interior one composed of small irregular white spots, the exterior one of small 
round white spots touching the small black marginal lunules; the latter are pierced by ochreous spots on each 
vein. Fringe with ochreous tips and rays, and an ochreous line at the base. Hindwing brownish green in the 
basal half, the marginal half diffusely blackish; a thick black marginal line of little crescents, with small och¬ 
reous lunules before it. Fringe white; head, tegulae and patagia dark brown, finely dotted ochreous; thorax 
and a large metathoracal tuft ochreous; abdominal dorsum dark grey, the brown hair-tufts tinged with ochre. 
In the Khasia Hills in Assam. 
P. praesecta ,sp. n. (30 g). Forewing dark brown; the lines bordered with dark rust-colour, rusty brown praeseda. 
behind the subbasal line and before the interior line. Coniform macula short and blackish with a small rusty 
spot at the base; ring-macula oblique, oval, rust-coloured, feebly bordered with black behind a pierced ochreous 
ring. The interior half of the reniform macula is a round white spot bordered with brown, and then pierced 
ochreous bows, outside of 2 white spots, strangulated in the middle, and obsolete above. Exterior line black, 
of small crescents, dentate, the lunules filled with rusty yellow. Subterminal line represented by a series of 
ochreous spots with black wedges before them. A series of ochreous dots directly before the margin, also with 
black marks before them. Fringe brown with ochreous dots at the base. Hindwing brownish grey with a broad 
dark brown marginal band. A series of large ochreous spots at the margin; fringe ochreous. Tegulae and 
patagia dark brown. Prothorax and metathoracal tufts yellowish ochreous red. Abdominal dorsum grey, its 
base lighter with dark hair-tufts. 
P. immatura sp. n. (30 g). Forewing dark brown, partly with a lighter tinge; veins partly dark; few immatura. 
bluish white scales at the base. Interior line dark, inwardly dentate on the median vein, then outwardly cur- 
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