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vein 5, and another in submedian fold; a terminal series 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 wing. Hind wing orange-yellow, 

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



Fig. 157. — Pericallia galactina, (^ . ]. (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 wholly scarlet.— Sumatra. 



ffah. W. China, Chia-kou-ho, 1 c? , Omei-shan, 1 2 » Moupin, 

 1 S ; N.W. Himalayas, Simla, Kulu ; Sikhim, 1 c? 2 $ , type 

 orientalis ; Assam, Khasis, 1 2 ? Nagas ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wal- 

 lace),! (5, 2 $ ; SuMATRi^, type t ca;na in Coll. Druce. Ea^j^., 

 6 66, $ 90 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Vertex of head and legs orange. 



Bab. Java {Horsfield), 1^1$, Arjuno, 3000 feet (DoJierty), 1 c^ . 



1889. Pericallia melanopsis. 



Arctia melanopsis, Wlk. xxxi. 280 (1864); Moore, Lep. Ceyl, ii. p. 75, 



pi. 108. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Hefc. p. 254. 

 Aloa caliisoma, Feld. Eeis. 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 coxse 

 at sides and femora above crimson ; the tibiae 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 beyond 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 suffused 

 with crimson ; cilia pure white. 



Eah, Ceilon, 1 05* , 2 $ , type. Exp., S 56, $ 86 millim. 



