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ved, bordered inside with bluish white scales. Coniform macula small, narrow, surrounded with black. Ring- 
macula coroniform with few small bluish white scales in a ring, laterally thickly bordered with black; reniform 
macula somewhat 8-shaped, surrounded by bluish white scales, bordered with black inside. Exterior line of 
small crescents, dentate, dark, the dents with scanty whitish scales; submarginal line dark, marked white only 
at and below the costal margin. White dots along the margin. Hindwing dingy grey, veins, cellular spot and 
the exterior curved line dark. Marginal band dark brownish grey. Fringe dark, with a rusty line at the base, 
forewing beneath brown, the hindwing dingy grey with a brown marginal band; both wings with a black 
cellular spot. Head and thorax blackish brown. Metathoracal comb whitish. Abdominal dorsum brownish 
grey. 1 $ from Sikkim, from an altitude of 10 000 ft., 1889 (0. Moller). Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Type 
in the Tring Museum. 
subalbida. p. subalbida sp. n. (30 h) resembles immatura, but the brown tinge is more prominent. Ho white 
scales at the base or along the lines. A broad blackish band between the subbasal and interior lines. Ring- 
macula dark, irregular with a black border; reniform macula 8-shaped, with small spots of white scales at 
each end inside and outside, the whole surrounded with black. Exterior line black, of small crescents, dentate, 
marked with a greyish white costal-marginal streak, the dents feebly scaled white. Subterminal line chiefly 
marked by the blackish shadow before it. Marginal line black, thick; fringe brown. Hindwing bronzy dark 
brown, darker towards the margin. % of the costal-marginal area white. Forewing beneath dark brownish 
grey with a large whitish reniform macula; hindwing white with a dark cellular spot and exterior line; marginal 
band narrowly blackish, vanishing before the anal angle. Head and thorax brown, patagia brown mixed with 
whitish scales; metathorax blackish, abdominal dorsum grey. 1 G from Bhutan, expanse: 35 mm. Type in 
the Tring-Museum. 
pallidipen- P. pallidipennis sp. n. (30 g). Like capensis Gn. (30 h and Vol. 3, pi. 18 k), but lighter, greyer. Hind- 
ms - wing white, marginal band and veins dark brown. Mostly somewhat smaller than capensis. It occurs in the 
Khasia Hills, the Punjab, the Nilgiris, in Madras (type, J 1 ), and Queensland. 
capensis. P. capensis Gn. (= apameoides Gn. part., conducta Wkr., serva Wkr., pauperata Wkr., prodita Wkr., 
inexacta Wkr., canorufa Wkr., illecta Wkr.. leonina Wkr., spargens Wkr., funesta Wkr., centralis Mr. nec Wkr., 
meleagris Saalm.) (30 h, and Vol. 3, pi. 18 k). Forewing dark brown on a reddish yellow ground, dusted grey 
along the costal margin below and behind the lower cell-angle and along the distal margin; veins dark. Interior 
and exterior lines alternately dentate, of small crescents, the dents marked with black and white small points, 
the lunules yellow. Subterminal line whitish, dentate, small dentiform black spots before it. Coniform macula 
small, surrounded with black. Ring-macula small, strangulated in the middle, the centre brown and the ring 
light. The centre of the reniform macula is yellowish in the upper half, white in the lower half, this lower 
lobe surrounded by small white dots encircled by black. Hindwing dull white, veins and margin suffused with 
brown, or quite brown in the $. — Larva smooth, light green, the anal segment with a hump, a series of purple 
brown, white-speckled spots across the dorsum and on the sides; a sublateral row of white dots. Pupa greenish 
with reddish ring-indentations; it is said to live on Acanthus. This widely distributed species which is common 
throughout South Africa and occurs also in China lias been reported from the following Indo-Australian places: 
India, Ceylon, Burma, the Andamans, the Malay Peninsula, Formosa, Borneo, Java, the Philippines, the Ta- 
laut Is., New Guinea, the Salomons Is., the Marshall Is., the Fidjis, and Queensland. 
aroana. P. aroana B.-Bak. (30 k). Forewing light grey, dusted dark grey, tinged with red along the folds; all 
the lines and maculae well dusted with small whitish scales. Subbasal and interior lines black, undulate, filled 
with whitish, exterior line strongly dentate, of sail crescents, powdered white. Ring-macula roundish or 
oval, whitish with a black ring. Reniform macula white, with a black figure inside and surrounded by black; 
coniform macula black, sometimes with small white scales in it; subterminal line white or grey, notched on 
each fold, small black wedges before it. Black, white-pointed spots at the margin, and small white dots at 
the base of the fringe. Hindwing of white, veins and exterior line dark. A dark brown band at the margin 
stops suddenly at vein 2, hindwing of $ quite dark brown. Antennae of almost serrate. Described from 
New Guinea, but widely distributed, occurring in the Malay Peninsula, in Java, Borneo, Bali, Banda, Am- 
boina, the Tenimbar Is., Larat, the Key Is., St. Aignan, Rossell I., the Salomons, and in Queensland. — The 
ochreata. subspecies ochreata subsp. nov., 1 $ from the Lesser Key I., is large and exhibits all the white markings along 
the folds ochreous. 
sublucens. P. sublucens sp. n. (30 h). Forewing blackish brown on an ochreous ground; subbasal and interior 
lines indistinctly double, filled with dull yellow. Coniform macula indistinct, filled with black at the end; ring- 
macula dark with a yellowish grey ring; reniform macula large, strangulated in the middle, with an interior 
black border, yellowish grey, partly bordered with black. Exterior line black, distinctly double, of small 
crescents, dentate, filled with dull yellow; the dents marked blackish and yellowish. Subterminal line bordered 
with dull yellow, notched and lighter on each fold, black markings before it; black dots bordered with dark 
