PYRRHIA; C'ALLOECIA. By W. Warren. 
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A palaearctic genus of which one species occurs also in India. 
Sect. VII. Antennae of <$ with short sessile fascicles of cilia. 
H. basalipursctata Graes. ( = intermixta Swinh.) (Vol. 3, pi. 46 g 20 a shows a $ from the Khasia basali- 
Hills). Forewing deep yellow, irrorated with orange red; inner and outer lines finely black, single, not double; punctata 
median line strongly and uniformly excurved in middle; the fascia before inner line interrupted below 
middle, meeting the dark shade beyond outer line on inner margin; stigmata thickly filled with orange 
red and showing yellow only along the brown outlines; the spot at base of sub median fold snow white; 
hindwing dark brown. An Amurland insect, occurring also in the Khasia Hills, Assam, whence Swinhoe’s type 
of intermixta. 
50. Genus: Pyrrhia Hbn. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth, bearing a thick tuft of hair; palpi upturned, the second 
segment densely rough haired beneath, the third minute; dorsum crested; foretibia with a strong spine be¬ 
neath, concealed by a tuft of hair; antennae of ^ subserrate, with short fascicles of cilia; forewing 
with apex prominent, termen slightly sinuous, the inner margin lobed at base. Insects of bright co¬ 
loration, emerging in early summer, often swarming on flower heads. Larvae slender, marked with long¬ 
itudinal lines and stripes, feeding up in autumn on the flowers and seeds of their foodplants, pupating in the 
ground before winter. Type P. purpurina Esp. 
Like the last a palaearctic genus with one species also Indian. 
P. umbra Hiifn. (= umbrago Esp., conspicua BTch., marginago Haiv., tibetana Moore, vexilliger umbra. 
Christ., aconeti Holtz) (Vol. 3, pi. 46 g). Forewing deep olive yellow, faintly dark dusted, from base to outer 
line, beyond which the terminal area is purplish grey, paling towards termen; the lines bright brown; 
the inner angled inwards on the veins and outwards between them; the outer stronger, oblique and 
slightly sinuous from the subcostal bend, generally followed by a purplish grey shade; median shade bent 
on median vein; subterminal line lunulate dentate, dark brown, the area beyond it often golden brown: 
orbicular and reniform of the ground colour, with brown outlines and brownish centres; the clavi- 
form outlined only; hind wing straw yellow, with broad black terminal border, dark cellspot, and pale fringe; 
—• ab. marginata F. (Vol. 3 pi. 46 g) is a paler yellow form, with the termen of both wings paler marginata. 
and the dark centre of the reniform prominent; — a rare aberration, in which the base of forewing is 
darkened, is called rutilago Haw. Larva green to reddish brown, mottled with yellowish, and dotted rutilago. 
with black; dorsal line dark, white-edged; subdorsal lines fine, yellowish white; lateral lines white or 
yellow; head pale brown; feeds ou flowers and seeds of Ononis spinosa, and is often cannibal. 
51. Genus: C-alloecla Hmps. 
Tongue well developed; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges, of which the lower 
is developed into a plate with a groove in front, and with a corneous plate below; palpi obliquely 
upturned, the second segment thickly haired, the third short and smooth; antennae of E lamellate, 
simple; thorax crested in front and behind; forewing with apex blunt and termen rounded; hindwing 
yellow, with broad black border; neuration normal. Type C. swinhoei Btlr. 
C. swinhoei Btlr. (20 a). Forewing rufous brown with slight black irroration; subbasal line dark swinhoei. 
and waved; inner line indistinct, blackish, waved, preceded by dark scaling on inner margin; outer 
line indistinctly double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, and incurved below 4; subterminal line with 
brownish patch at costa, then, like the others, indistinct and waved; an angled dark median line; stig¬ 
mata not represented; hindwing orange yellow with broad dark terminal border; fringe yellow intermixed 
with brown; abdomen, pectus, and legs yellow mixed in parts with brown. Asirgarh and Poona, Bombay, 
S. India. A small species standing by itself. 
