^^2 ARCTIAD.^. 



below vein 6 and others on termen on each side of vein 3. Hind 

 wing yellow, with medial brown band with waved edges and 

 narrowing or interrupted towards inner margin ; a very irregular 

 subterminal maculate band, expanding to apical part of termen and 

 usually enclosing some yellow points, sometimes touching termen 

 at vein 2 and ending on termen at vein 1. 



Ilab. Bombay, Matheran (Leith), 1 ci" , 3 $ , type. Eojp., S 52, 

 2 60 millim. 



Subsp. 1. rubelliana, Swinh. P.Z. S. 1889, p. 403; Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. 

 viii. p. 6, pi. 143. f. 18 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 19. 



All the yellow areas replaced by scarlet ; hind wing with the 

 medial band reduced to spots or almost absent. 



Fig. 159. — Pericallia ruheUiaiia, (^ . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



Hah. N. Canara ( Wise), 1 S type ; Nilgiris (ffamj^son), 1 $ ; 

 Teavancore, Naganad (FeUows-Wilsoti), 1 cT . 



1899. Pericallia distorta. 



Pangora distorta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 42, pi. 2. f. 14 (1879) ; Hrapsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 19 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 247. 



(S . Head dark brown, the vertex yellowish white with brown 

 spot ; thorax yellowish white, with brown spots on tegulse, patagia, 

 pro- meso- and metathorax ; coxae whitish, femora scarlet above ; 

 abdomen scarlet above, with dorsal and lateral series of black spots, 

 the ventral surface brown with scarlet bands. Fore wing brown, 

 the veins pale ; a whitish mark at base ; two irregular oblique 

 whitish antemedial bands from subcostal nervure to vein 1, 

 conjoined in submedian fold and emitting a spur to base ; an 

 irregular postmedial band, its inner edge dentate at vein 6, emitting 

 an oblique spur into upper angle of cell and another spur in 

 submedian fold, its outer edge dentate at the veins and in sub- 

 median fold ; obliquely placed subterminal spots above and below 

 vein 6, and another on vein 3. Hind wing scarlet ; brown spots 

 on costa at middle and above discoidal spot ; subterminal spots on 

 each side of veins 7, 5, 2, and 1, and some terminal spots towards 

 apex. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Simla, Mussoorie (Hutton), 1 S type. 

 Eocp. 60 millim. 



