440 LTTHOSIAD-E. 



with the 2nd joint Hack ahove ; abdomen pale orange-yellow 

 banded with black ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 greyish ochreous slightly irrorated with black ; femora orange 

 above ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen with lateral 

 and sublateral series of small black spots. Fore wing thickly 

 irrorated with black, whitish with the marginal areas pale orange- 

 yellow ; some slight black marks below basal part of eosta ; a black 

 antemedial bar from costa and two diffused slightly waved narrow 

 blackish bands from cell to inner margin ; a narrow diffused 

 blackish medial band, angled outwards at median nervure, then 

 incurved ; a diffused black discoidal spot with the discocellulars 

 pale; a narrow diffused waved blackish postmedial band, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa and inwardly oblique between veins 3 

 and 2 ; two narrow diffused dentate blackish subterminal bands; 

 a terminal series of rather diffused black lunules. Hind wing 

 pale orange-yellow ; some blackish irroration on basal part of vein 1 

 and on inner margin ; a small black spot on upper discocellular ; 

 a slightiy waved black line from lower angle of cell to above inner 

 margin ; rather diffused and somewhat bifid subterminal black 

 spots on veins 5 and 2 and above tornus ; the underside with 

 diffused sinuous blackish medial line, the postmedial line oblique 

 to discal fold, then waved, 



Hab. Br. E. Afjuca, Kcdai {Feather), type f J in Coll. Faw- 

 cett. Exp. 50 millim. 



1S79. Pericallia transversa. 



Head and thorax brownish white, the palpi, sides of Irons, and 

 antennas blackish ; the tegulae in female and the patagia in both 

 sexes with black spots, the dorsum of thorax and shoulders with 

 black stripes ; femora crimson above, the tibiae with black stripes 

 and the tarsi banded wit i black; abdomen crimson with dorsal 

 and lateral series of black spots, anal tuft and ventral surface 

 whitish, the medial segments with sublateral series of black spots. 



Punjab, Mui-ree, d\ 2 in Coll. Rothschild. 



*1S79 a. Pericallia puella. 



Spilosoma puella, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. 85 (1SS7) ; id. Oat. 

 Lop. pal. p 365 ; Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. pi. (J. f. 20 ; Seitz, Gr.-Schm. 



pal. ii. p. 446, pi. 56 (j. 



J. Head and thorax white; palpi towards tips, lower part of 

 frons, and antennae blackish; patagia with blackish patches; 

 pectus and legs suffused with blackish, the femora scarlei above, 

 the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen scarlet with dorsal series of 

 black bars, patch on terminal segment and lateral and sublateral 

 series of spots, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused witii in-own; a subbasal black spot on eosta ; an 

 antemedial curved series of four spots and two sjxds on inner 

 margin : a spot at middle of cell conjoined to a spot on costa, 

 three conjoined spots above and below median nervureand a double 



