eiNl^A.— CABALA, 469 



medial patch from costa, point on vein 6, curved mark between 

 discal fold and vein 2 with its lower extremity more or less forked, 

 and a conical spot on inner margin confluent with the white on 

 termen ; a large apical white patch and narrow terminal band wdth 

 waved inner edge, subterminal black spots on costa and below vein 

 7, the latter oblique, and a terminal series of five spots, the spot at 

 apex larger and the spot above tornus bar-shaped. Hind wing 

 white or faintly tinged with brown. 



Ab. 1. fentoni. Fore wing pale yellow, the white markings much 

 more extensive, the yellow reduced to narrow meandering bauds, 

 the postmedial markings forming an entire band, the black marks 

 on terminal area reduced. 



Ab. 2. clara. Fore wing with the yellow still paler and more 

 reduced, the terminal area quite or almost entirely white, the black 

 entirely or partially absent. 



Ab. 3. unicolora. Thorax and fore wing entirely white. 



Hah. E. SiBEEiA, Ussuri, 1 J ; Japan, Yesso {Pnjer), 1 S , 

 Hakodate {Leech), 1 S , 'd $ , Tokio (Fento7i), 2 c? , 1 $ , types 

 fentoni and clara, Yokohama (Fryer), 2 d", 3 5 ; C, China, 

 Shanghai (Fortune), 3 $ type, Ichang (3Irs. Fraft), 1 $ ; W. CnijrA, 

 Chang-yaug (Fratt), !(?,!$, Omei-shan, 2 $ , Washan (Fratt), 1 6 , 

 Wa-ssu-kow, 1 5 , Moupin (Kricheldorf), 1 $ . Fxj). 32-40 

 millim. 



Genus GABALA. ^ 



Tjpe. 

 Gahak(,W\'k. xxx'ir. 1220(1865) polyspilaHs. 



Proboscis rather small; palpi obliquely upturned, the .3rd joint reaching to 

 far above vertex of bead and witb tuft of hair above at extremity, the 3rd very 

 long with tuft of hair near extremity ; frons smooth, with ridge of scales above ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna of male almost simple; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the metathorax with hump-like crest ; tibiae smoothly 

 scaled; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments; the male with 

 lateral fans of large scales covering the stigmata. Fore wing with the costa 

 highly arched, the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate, veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell • 6 from below 

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

 the termen almost straight to vein 2, then excised to tornus ; veins 3 and 4 

 shortly stalked ; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle ; retinaculum of male a tuft of hair 

 from below median nervuro. 



Sect. I. Abdomen of male with the lateral fans of scales large ; hind wing 

 with the termen very strongly excised below vein 2 ; male with fringes 

 of long hair below tiie cell and vein 2 and on inner area on upperside. 



A. Fore wing with large triangular antemedial white patch ... margarita. 



B. Fore wing with numerous small white spots on basal area . polyspUalis. 



*6818. Galsala margarita. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 22.) 



Gahala margarita, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 198 (1908). 



5 . Head and tegulse yellow mixed with crimson, the palpi red- 

 brown with the 1st joint yellow and white, the tegulae with silvery 



