PERICALLT\. — ECP.^NrnERIA. 365- 



*1905. Pericallia distin^enda. 



Mthalida disfinguenda, Wlk. sxxi. ^I'l (l.S(i4): Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. 

 Oxon. p. 175 (part), pi. 4. f. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 278. 



S . Very dark chocolate-brown ; palpi .scarlet except at tips ; 

 antenna? scarlet at base ; sides of frons and vertex of head whitish ; 

 teguhe narrowly edged with scarlet ; patagia Avith the basal part 

 whitish, with a large brown spot on shoulders ; legs whitish, scarlet 

 and brown ; a])flomen with scarlet lateral .stripe except on terminal 

 segment, emitting segmental bands nearly or quite joining on dorsum 

 and with a lateral series of black spots on it, a conjoined series 

 of ventral whitish bands, the terminal segment with scarlet sub- 

 lateral and whitish ventral spots. Fore wing witli white point at 

 base, a subbasal spot below the cell, and an elliptical spot in end of 

 cell. Hind wing with scmihyaline fascia above and below median 

 nervui'e ; a yellowish-white fascia just below costa and in cell from 

 near base to middle, followed by a spot beyond middle ; subter- 

 minal scarlet points above veins G and 3. 



JIab. Celebes, Menado ( Wallace), type t S in Mus. Oxon. 

 Eocp. 50 millim. 



Genus ECPANTHERIA. 



Type. 



Ecpantkcria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 183 (1827) ocularia. 



Catenina, Burrn. Ann. Mus. B. Ayres, iii. p. 42 (1883) heterogena. 



Proboscis aborted, slight ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frons ; head 

 and thorax smoothly scaled; hind tibite with the medial spurs absent; abdomen 

 with a little rough hair at base of dorsum. Fore wing with vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 4, .5 from angle; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 

 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 5 from 

 just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. {Catenina). Antenna of male bipectinate with short branches. 



A. Abdomen with the base white, in male extending to middle, mus. 



B. Abdomen with the base dark, the hair at base only white ... heterogena. 



1906. Ecpantheria mus. 



E<ypaniheria mus, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 109, pi. 1(5. f. 1 (1881) ■ Kirby 

 Oat. Het. p. 216. ^' 



S . White ; head and thorax slightly tinged with grey ; palpi, 

 lower part of frons, and a patch below antennae black; anteniuc 

 with the shaft at middle and extremity and the branches black ; 

 tegulae with two black streaks ; patagia with two streaks meeting 

 at extremity ; legs banded witli Idack ; abdomen with large dorsal 

 black patch on subterminal segments, a sublatcral series of black 

 spots. Fore wing hyaline from median nervure before middle to ter- 

 men at apex and submedian fold; five black-ringed spots on costa, four 

 above vein 1, and four on inner margin ; a terminal series of black 

 stria). Hind wing almost hyaline, the inner area more tliickly 

 scaled; some black points on costa and termen near apex and often 

 towards tornus which is slightly produced. 



5 . Thorax darker grey ; abdomen dorsally black except at base. 



