442 



LTTHOSIAD.E. 



below vein 6 as a wedge-shaped mark, with oblique band from its 

 upper edge to apical part of costa, the outer edge of this band 

 slightly notched at middle ; a creamy white fascia from base of 

 inner margin below median nervure to end of cell with sinuous 

 lower edge, then oblique below vein 3 to termen ; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped mark from termen above middle ; cilia creamy white, 

 black at middle and towards apex. Hind wing creamy white ; a 

 black discoidal lunule, subterminal spots on vein 5, below vein 2 

 and on vein 1, and small terminal spots on vein G and in submedian 

 fold. 



Hah. Formosa, Rantaizan {Wile man), type f J in Coll. 

 Wileman. Exp. 72 millim. 



1888. Pericallia galactina. 

 ah. 1. Should be called trigonalis which has priority over cana. 



1892. Pericallia o'bliquifascia. 

 Larva. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. xlviii. p. 191, pi. vii. ff. 4, 5 (1905). 



Thickly clothed with grey-brown hairs, the ground-colour grey 

 or black mixed with yellow; dorsal and subdorsal lines yellowish 

 white; stigmata white, marked with red above. 



The young larva has the dorsal line white sometimes marked 

 witli small red spots; some of the abdominal somites with sub- 

 dorsal black warts with black haii-s rising from them and with 

 lateral pink patches near them; stigmata marked with orange; 

 head black with small yellow patches. Food-plants : Colocasia 

 antiquorum and Lantana camera. 



Papa dark in a silken cocoon mixed with hair. 



*1802 a. Pericallia villiami. 



Pericallia williami, Koths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 170 (1910), & xviii. pi. :>. 

 ff. 16, 28. 



6 . Head and thorax black, the vertex of head white with a 

 black spot; tegulse and patagia with white stripes; pectus and 

 legs black-brown ; abdomen orange-yellow with dorsal series of 

 black liars and patch on anal segment, lateral series of black soots, 

 the ventral surface black-brown. Fore wing black ; a broad white 

 fascia in submedian interspace from base to beyond middle where it 

 is met by an oblique fascia t'roiu apex, both with sinuous edges; 

 a round white subterminal spot above vein 3 with minute spots 

 above and below it and a minute spot above vein (J. Hind wing 

 yellowish white ; a small blackish spot on discocellulars and small 

 spc-1 helou extremity of vein 1 ; the underside with the costal area 

 black-brown except at base and apex, conjoined to the discoidal 

 spot, a striga at apex. 



$. Fore wing with the oblique band narrower, a small suh- 

 terminal spot above vein 3 only; hind wing yellow, the discoidal 

 -pot larger; a black-brown patch on apical part of termen, round 



