TERICALLIA. 



851 



basal spot ; a subbasal series of four spots ; an antemedial scries 

 with the spot below the cell displaced outwards ; two medial series 



Fig. 155.— Pericallia ricini, (^ . \. 



excurved at median nervure and bent outwards to inner margin ; 

 four spots beyond the cell ; a postmedial series of spots which are 

 larger except the spot above vein 3 ; a subterminal series of double 

 dentate spots ; a terminal series of small triangular spots. Hind 

 wing scarlet, with maculate black subbasal band ; a maculate medial 

 band angled outwards at lower angle of cell and vein 1 ; a maculate 

 subterminal band expanding greatly above sabmedian fold and vein 

 4 ; a terminal band dentate inwards at veins 2 and 3. 



Ab. 1. zerah. Abdomen and hind wing yellow. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Simla {Harford), 2 c^ ; Assam, Silhet, 



2 2 ; Calcutta, 1 2 ; Punjab, Jubbulpore (F. Butler), 1 d' , 1 $ ; 

 Eajpootana, 2 (S , 12 ; Bombay (Leith, Swinhoe), 5 S , ^ 2 , type 

 clavatus, Poona, 2 cj" , 2 5 , Mhow (Siuinhoe), 1 2 > Canara ( Ward), 

 1 S , 2 2> Mysore, Shimoga (Watson), 1 $; Nilgieis {Hampson), 



3 c?, 4 2 ; Ceylon (TempJeton, Yerhury), 2 (S , 7 2 - Exp., S 32- 

 50, 2 60-68 millim. 



Larva. Dark brown speckled with white, and with dorsal and 

 lateral tufts of long dark hair. Eood-plants, Notonia, Fagrcea. 



1879. Pericallia transversa. (Plate XLYII. fig. 5.) 



Cycnia transversa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 398 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 18 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 908. 



2 . (Head and abdomen wanting.) Pale brown. Fore wing 

 with whitish-edged black markings ; four obliquely-placed points at 

 base, below costa, in cell, and above vein 1 ; an antemedial series of 

 iive spots oblique from costa to median nervure, then incurved ; a 

 similar medial series conjoined into an irregular band interrupted 

 in submedian fold ; clusters of small spots and points at the angles 

 of cell, with a spot on costa above them ; an incurved postmedial 

 series of small spots between vein 5 and inner margin ; a subter- 

 minal series with the spots between veins 5 and 2 obsolescent ; 

 some points below costa towards apex ; a terminal series of small 

 spots, except towards tornus. Hind wing with discoidal spot ; 

 subterminal spots on costa and vein 5 and from above 2 to near 

 tornus ; some points at apex. 



Hal, N.W. India, 1 2 type. Exp. 40 millim. 



