350 AECTIADiE. 



Genus PERICALLIA. 



Type. 



Fericallia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 182 (1827) matronula. 



Pleretes, Led. Terb. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, ii. p. 77 (1853) ... matronula. 



Alope, Wlk. iii. 619 (1855) ricini. 



Areas, Wlk. iii. 658 (1855) galacfina. 



Satara, Wlk. xxxi. 160 (1864) miuata. 



Mthalkla, Wlk. xxxi. 320 (1864) distingucnda. 



Arctioneura, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 2 (1874), non descr (equata. 



yieringocera, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 6 (1874) distinguenda. 



Tatargina, Butl. Trans. Ent. Sec. 1877, p. 366 picta. 



Taiigora, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 42 (1879) distorta. 



Melanareas, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 29 (1899) imperialism 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just, or well, beyond the frons ; 

 head and thorax smoothly scaled ; tibia; with the spurs short. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 6 from above angle, abnormally 4, 5 shortly 

 stalked; 6 from upper angle; 7,8,9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



Sect. I. (Alope). Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches, of 

 female serrate. 



A. Hind wing black with orange medial band aquata. 



B. Hind wing crimson or yellow ricini. 



C. Hind wing pale brownish. 



a. Fore wing with small black spots at lower angle of cell ... transversa. 



b. Fore wing with large black patch from costa to below 



lower angle of cell sjostedti. 



1877. Pericallia sequata. 



Satara cequata, Wlk. xxxi. 160 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 33. 

 Arctioneura lorquinil, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 107. f. 16 (1874). 



Black-brown ; tegiihie orange ; abdomen orange, with dorsal series 

 of short black bands and sublateral series of spots ; wings with the 

 veins paler. Fore wing with nearly erect medial orange band 

 varying in width and with waved edges. Hind wing with broader 

 orange medial band with small black discoidallunule on it, its outer 

 edge crenulate, its inner sinuous. 



Bab. Celebes (Wallace), 1 d" , 1 $ type. Eaj}., 6 46, § 5-4 

 millim. 



1878. Pericallia ricini. 



Bomhi/x ricini, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 583 (1775) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii.p. 70, 

 pi. 106. ff. 2 a, c; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 17; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 247. 



Bombyx zerah, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 397, G (1782). 



Alofc ocellifera, Wlk. iii. p. 620 (1855). 



Alope clavaius, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 295. 



Head and thorax dark grey-brown ; tegulas and patagia with 

 grey-edged black spots ; abdomen scarlet, with dorsal series of black 

 spots and lateral bands. Fore wing dark grey-brown, sometimes 

 paler or reddish with series of grey-edged black-brown spots ; a 



