PEKICALLIA. 



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vein 5, and another in submedian fold : a terminal scries of 

 elongate quadrate spots between veins 2 and apex, towards which 

 they decrease ; the markings sometimes very largely developed and 

 covering the greater part of Aving. Hind wing orange-yellow, 

 sometimes tinged with scarlet at base or to near termen ; a black 



Fig. 157. — Pericalliagalactina, (^ . 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



discoidal spot or lunule usually present, sometimes a postmedial 

 spot on vein 2 ; subterminal spots below vein 2 and on vein 1, and 

 sometimes one above vein 5. 



Ab. 1. cana. Hind wing whoUy scarlet.— Sumatra. 



Hah. W. China, Chia-kou-ho, 1 S , Omei-shan, 1 $ , Moupin, 

 1 S ; N.W. Himalayas, Simla, Kiilu ; Sikhim, 1 J 2 $ , type 

 orientalis ; Assam, Tvhasis, 1 $ , Niigas ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wal- 

 lace),! J, 2 5 ; Sumatra, type t cana in Coll. Druce. Ewji., 

 cS 66, $ 90 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Vertex of head and legs orange. 



Bab. Java {Jlorsfield), 1^1$, Arjuno, 3000 feet {Doherty), 1 S . 



1889. Pericallia melanopsis. 



Arctia inelanopsi.t, Wlk. xxxi. 280 (18(U); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 75, 



pi. 108. f. 2 ; Ilnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 254. 

 Aloa callisoma, Feld. Reis. Nov. iv. pi. 101. f. 4 (1874). 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; 3rd joint of palpi and 

 frons blackish ; shoulders and patagia with black points ; fore coxa) 

 at sides and femora al)ove crimson ; the tibite and tarsi fuscous ; 

 abdomen crimson above, with dorsal and lateral series of black 

 spots and sublateral series of points, the ventral surface ochreous 

 white. Fore wing brownish ochreous, with nearly straight oblique 

 fuscous line from costa l)cyond middle to middle of inner margin ; 

 cilia pure white. Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner area tinged 

 with crimson in male, in female the greater part of wing suftused 

 with crimson ; cilia pure white. 



Ilah. Ceylon, 1 d j 2 2 , type. Exp., S 56, 5 86 millim. 



