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<j>. Head and thorax dark-brown ; palpi crimson at base; vertex of head 



white with brown spots ; teguloc 



white with brown spots and 



^M^ ^fT"" ^^^ j^ slightly edged with crimson ; 



§^MWi ^=^==^ §^ patagia with the lower half 



white with brown spots on 



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shoulders ; femora whitish to- 

 Eatigmene vittata $ \. wards base, crimson above ; 



abdomen crimson above with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of brown 

 spots, the ventral surface white with brown bands on terminal segments. Fore- 

 wing dark-brown, with irregular white marks at base and small pink marks on 

 inner margin, the basal marks conjoined to two irregular white antemedial 

 conjoined spots extending from middle of cell to vein 1 ; two conjoined, curved, 

 postmedial bands from lower end of cell to vein 1, with a small spot below 

 them on inner margin and another above their outer extremity ; points below 

 middle of costa and on discocellulars ; two postmedial points from costa and 

 three obliquely placed from just before apex ; a curved series of six spots 

 on terminial area between veins 6 and 1, and some points on termen. Hindwing 

 crimson ; the costal area brown to beyond middle, with white point at middle 

 and conjoined to spots at middle and end of cell ; a subterminal bar from 

 costa to vein 5 ; a spot on vein 2, and a terminal spot on vein 1. 

 Habitat— Ceylon, Hambantota. Exp. 32 mill. 



12206. Estigmene irregularis, Moore Lep. Ceyl., II., p. 72, pi. 107, f . 2 (1882). 

 $ Head and thorax black-brown ; basal joint of antennae pink ; pinkish 

 white fasciae meeting on vertex of head, thence diverging on tegulse and patagia, 

 which last have black spots ; femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson above 

 with dorsal series of short black bands, the ventral surface black. Forewing black 

 with white fascia from base below the cell, its lower edge excised at middle, at 

 vein 2 bent upwards to apex, its edges waved and emitting a small tooth at 

 lower angle of cell. Hindwing pale crimson, the costal area black ; a black 

 discoidal spot ; a subterminal band from costa to vein 5, a spot on vein 2 and 

 a terminal spot on vein 1. 



Habitat— Ceylon. Exp. 32-36 mill. 



1220. Alphcm biguttata, insert Estigmene perrotteti, Guer. Icon. R. Amin. 

 Ins. p. 514 (1844), which has precedence and del. Rajendra irregularis and 

 Spilosoma lativitta. 



1235. Estigmene lactinea, insert (syn.) Rhodogastria frederici, Kirby, Cat. 

 Het., p. 223 (1892). 



Genus Pericallia. 



Type. 



Pericallia, Hiibn. Vera., p. 182 (1827) matronula. 



Pleretes, Led. Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. I]., p. 77 (1853)... matronula. 



Alop», Wlk. III. 619 (1855) ricini. 



Anas, Wlk. III. 658(1855) , galactina. 



