168 Mr. J. H. Leech on 



Genus Callarctia, nov. 



Palpi porrect, hairy, third joint minute. Antennae fully ciliated. 

 Proboscis of moderate length. Primaries rather long and narrow ; 

 veins 3 and 4 from lower angle of cell, 5 from above angle or some- 

 times from middle of the discocellulars ; 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked. 

 Secondaries with veins 3 and 4, also 6 and 7 stalked. Hind tibiae 

 with two pairs of spurs, the terminal pair short. 



In the female vein 3 of primaries is from angle of cell, 

 and 4 and 5 from just above angle. 



Type, C. hieti, Oberthiir. 



537. Callarctia hieti. 



Chelonia hieti, Oberth., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., (6) iii, p. xliii, 

 (1883); Etud. d'Entom., ix, p. 20, pi. ii, fig. 11 

 (1884). 



Arctia hieti.. Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 260 (1892). 



I have twenty-five examples from the following localities 

 — Ta-chien-lu, Omei-shan, Wa-shan, Pu-tsu-fong, and 

 Wa-ssu-kow. 



Some of the specimens have very pale yellow secondaries 

 and are referable to var. sulphurea, Oberth., but none of 

 them seem to quite agree with var. alhescens of the same 

 author. In some specimens the costal band of primaries 

 is quite separate from the oblique band beyond, and the 

 subapical is almost round. On the secondaries the discal 

 sjDot is not always present, and there is considerable aber- 

 ration from the type, as figured, in the black marking of 

 outer margin. In one example from Pu-tsu-fong the 

 secondaries are devoid of marking, whilst another from 

 Wa-ssu-kow has an almost uninterrupted black outer 

 marginal border and an irregular central band of the same 

 colour. 



Hahitat. Western China. 



538. Callarctia pratti. 



€helo7iia hieti, var. pratti, Leech, Entom., xxiii, p. Ill 

 (1890). 

 I find that this insect, which I formerly considered to 

 be a form of C. hieti, difiers in some slight structural 

 details from that species. In both sexes vein 6 of primaries 

 is not stalked with 7, 8, 9, and 10, but has independent 



