Areas galactina inouei Dubatolov, Haynes & Kishida, 2009

van der Hoeven, J. (1840). Beschrijving eeniger nieuwe of weinig bekende
uitlandsche soorten van Lepidoptera. Tijdschrift voor natuurlijke
Geschiedenis en Physiologie 7: p. 280, pl. 6, fig. 5 a, b. Described in the
genus Chelonia. Translated from the Dutch original (Latin diagnosis
translated as well).

4. Chelonia galactina nob.
Fig. 5, a, b.

Fore wings variegated with red and white, hind wings yellowish; abdomen red,
with a median band of black spots; thorax blood-red beneath.

The wingspan is about 7 centimetres. The veins of the upper wings are
reddish brown, and along them this colour spreads between the milk-white
ground colour; the lower wings are yellow. On the underside all the wings
are orange-yellow.

This species of moth comes from Brazil. It has some resemblance to Noctua
Astrea Fabr., figured in Drury, Illustrations, II, pl. 28, fig. 4.

Hampson, G. F. (1901). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 3: pp. 356-357, text-fig. 157. As Pericallia galactina.

1888. Pericallia galactina.

Chelonia galactina, Hoev. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Phys. vii. p. 280, pl. 6.
f. 5 (1840); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 25; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 253.
Areas orientalis, Wlk. iii. 658 (1855).
Numenes trigonalis, Voll. Tijdschr. Ent. vi. p. 140, pl. 10. fig. 1 (1863).
Areas cana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 234 (1899).

Palpi crimson, black at tips; frons black; antennae black, the shaft white
above towards extremity; vertex of head white, more or less suffused with
crimson; thorax white; tegulae, shoulders, and patagia with black-brown
spots, the vertex of thorax with broad brown stripe; tegulae edged with
crimson; pectus and legs crimson, the latter striped with black-brown, the
fore coxae with brown spots; abdomen scarlet above, with dorsal, lateral,
and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral surface orange, often
tinged with scarlet. Fore wing black-brown, with white spot at base;
elongate subbasal spots below costa, in cell, and on inner margin, and a
triangular spot below the cell with another beyond it; an elongate spot
below middle of costa, with a wider spot below it and beyond cell; spots
below the cell above and below vein 3; a triangular postmedial spot on
costa, with a small spot below it above 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 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.

Hab. W. China, Chia-kou-ho, 1 ♂, Omei-shan, 1 ♀, Moupin, 1 ♂; N.W.
Himalayas, Simla, Kulu; Sikhim, 1 ♂, 2 ♀, type orientalis; Assam, Khasis,
1 ♀, Nagas; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 ♂, 2 ♀; Sumatra, type cana in
Coll. Druce. Exp., ♂ 66, ♀ 90 millim.

Subsp. 1. Vertex of head and legs orange.
Hab. Java (Horsfield), 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Arjuno, 3000 feet (Doherty), 1 ♀.

Seitz, A. (1910). Areas. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 2, The Palaearctic Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 91, pl. 17 b.
(German edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 2: 91.)

A. galactina Hoev. (= orientalis Walk., trigonalis Voll.) (17 b). Large,
forewing ivory with black-green veins and stripes, hindwing orange with red
base and usually with a few black spots. Abdomen scarlet with black dorsal
spots. In ab. cana Druce the hindwing is purple-pink. Kashmir, through North
India to West China, usually rare.

Rothschild, W. (1914). Pericallia. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera
of the World, vol. 10, The Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 257,
pl. 25 c. As Pericallia galactina.

P. galactina Hoev. (25 c). Antennae dark brown; head orange-yellow, forehead
black; tegulae white with black spots and a yellowish-red posterior margin;
shoulder-covers white with a black median spot; thorax black, at the sides
white; abdomen bright carmine, with black median dots on the rings 2 to 7,
the anal valves are strongly indented in the middle, turned upward, and
project far beyond the anus. Forewing white, with chocolate veins; the
proximal margin far beyond vein 1 of the same colour, two oblique, brown
lines connect the base and the cell like a V with these broad
inner-marginal areas, two much broader, large, oblique, brown bands extend
from the apex and the costa of the wing and are united in the shape of a V
with the inner-marginal area at the tip of vein 2, a branch of one of these
bands runs from the base of vein 6 to the costa. Hindwing yellow, the base
and anal fold are haired pink with some blackish spots. Length of forewing:
♂ 35, ♀ 45 mm. Island of Java. -- orientalis Wkr. differs from the type by
its white head and carmine margining of the head and tegulae and its larger
size, and by larger blackish-grey spots on the hindwings. Length of
forewing: ♂ 40, ♀ 50 mm. Sikkim and the Indian alpine districts. -- The
Khasia Hill specimens of this subspecies partly have red heads, and this
being nowhere else the case in India, I denominate these specimens ab.
(loc.) khasiana ab. nov. As to further particulars on orientalis vid. Vol.
II, p. 91. -- trigonalis Voll. (= cana Druce) (25 c) differs from the type
by its yellowish-red head, black antennae with a white terminal third,
almost black markings on the forewings and carmine hindwings with a yellow
touch towards the distal margin. Malacca and Sumatra.