PERTCALLTA. ECP.^ NTIIEHTA . 365 



*1905. Pericallia distinguenda. 



Mthalida distmguenda, Wlk. xxxi. 3:21 (1804) ; Swinli. Cat. Het. Mu3. 

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



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

 antennae scarlet at base ; sides of frons and vertex of head whitish ;, 

 tegulsD narrowly edged with scarlet ; patagia with the basal part 

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

 and brown ; abdomen 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 with white point at 

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

 cell. Hind wing with semihyaline fascia above and below median 

 nervure ; 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 6 and 3. 



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

 Ea^j). 50 millim. 



Genus ECPANTHERIA. 



Type. 



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



Catenina, Burm. 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 tibiae 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. 1. {Catenina). Antennae 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. 



Ecpantheria mus, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 109, pi. 16. f. 1 (1881); Kirby,. 

 Cat. Het. p. 216. 



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

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

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

 tegulee with two black streaks ; patagia with two streaks meeting 

 at extremity ; legs banded with black ; abdomen with large dorsal 

 black patch on subterminal segments, a sublateral 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 

 striae. Hind wing almost hyaline, the inner area more thickly 

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

 towards tornus which is slightly produced. 



$ . Thorax darker grey ; abdomen dorsaily black except at base. 



