852 AECTIADJi:. 



*1880. Pericallia sjostedti. (Plate XLYII. fig. 24.) 

 Spilosoma sjostedti, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. 1899, p. 240. 



5 . Pale reddish brown ; palpi with the 3rd joint black ; antennaB 

 whitish ; black patches on frons, vertex of head, tegiilce, patagia, and 

 shoulders ; legs blackish in front ; abdomen dull orange, with dorsal 

 and lateral series of black spots, the ventral siirface whitish. Fore 

 wing with white-edged black spots ; a point at base ; an antemedial 

 series of live spots, the three towards costa elongate ; a medial spot 

 on costa ; a large irregular patch from costa to below lower end of 

 cell, with the veins crossing it whitish ; two pairs of small spots 

 above and below base of vein 2 ; an oblique patch from apex to 

 below vein 6, followed by small spots on veins 5, 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of points. Hind wing with discoidal lunule ; points on termen 

 between apex and vein 3 and small indistinct subterminal spots 

 above 5, below 2, and above 1 ; underside with small medial and 

 postmedial spots on costa. 



Hab. Cameroons, type t $ in Mus. Stockholm. E.vp. 46millim. 



Sect. II. (Areas). Antenna; of male bipectinate, with very short branches. 



A. Abdomen doi-sally crimson or tinged with scarlet. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour scarlet picta. 



b. Fore wing with the ground-colour not scarlet. 

 a\ Hind wing crimson. 



d^. Fore wing with two postmedial and subterminal 



bands forming an X -niark ellioti. 



b'. Fore wing without X -mark on terminal area. 

 a^. Fore wing with double oblique series of spots 

 or maculate band from lower angle of cell 



to inner margin sipahi. 



b^. Fore wing with irregular white fascia from 

 b::se to beyond cell. 

 a*. Fore wing with tlie fascia continued 



obliquely to termen below apes j)'^"''>^osa. 



h^. Fore wing with the fascia joined by a band 



from costa before apex dentata. 



b^. Hind wingwhitish geometrica. 



0^. Hind wing yellow, often partly suffused with 

 crimson. 

 a-. Fore wing with white fascial in cell and sub- 



median interspace iiniyeriaiis. 



b"^. Fore wing with white spots in cell and sub- 

 median interspace galaciina. 



c~. Fore wing with narrow oblique medial fuscous 



band melanopsis. 



B. Abdomen orange above. 



a. Fore wing with postmedial white band arising from 



costa well before apex tripartita. 



b. Fore wing with oblique band from apex. 



a^. Fore wing with basal and antemedial white spots 

 below cell, 

 a^. Fore wing without white patch on apical part 



of termen oLliquifascia, 



h-. Fore wing with white patch on apical part of 



termeu conjoined to the oblique band conjuncta. 



b^. Fore wing with white fascia below the cell bent 



up obliquely to apex Integra. 



c. Fore wing without band melaniiiwn. 



