PSEUDOLIGIA.. — SCOTOCAMPA. I, I 



37GS. Pseudoligia similiaria. 



Ligia simiUaria, Men. Mem. Ac. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. vi. p. 290, pi. S. 



f. 12 (1849); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 242. & Add. p. 256. 

 Epimecia argillacea, Christ. Rom. Mum. iii. p. 81, pi. 4. f . 6 (1887); 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 



<S . Head and thorax white mixed with pale reddish brown and 

 black ; palpi with blackish marks at sides of joints ; tibiae at 

 extremities and tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen white tinged 

 with brown. Fore win" "rev-white suffused with reddish and 

 fuscous brown and with some dark irroration, the veins with dark 

 streaks, on terminal area with whitish streaks; subbasal and 

 antemedial lines represented by oblique dark striae from costa ; the 

 medial area with black streaks above and below submedian fold 

 with a whitish mark between them representing the claviform ; 

 orbicular and reniform absent ; postmedial line represented by an 

 obscure oblique dark band from costa towards apex to inner 



Fig. 24. — Pseudoligia similiaria, <$ . f. 



margin, diffused on inner side and dentate on outer, and with 

 whitish suffusion beyond it from costa to vein 2; subterminal line 

 faint, whitish, defined on inner side by slight dentate dark marks ; 

 a terminal series of black striaa defined on inner side by whitish 

 marks ; cilia white mixed with black at base and tips. Hind wing 

 white, the veins brownish ; a diffused brown discoidal lunule ; the 

 area beyond the cell irroratcd with brown and with faint diffused 

 subterminal band from costa to vein 2; a strong brown terminal 

 line; the underside white with black discoidal spot and terminal line. 

 Hab. W. Turkestax, Turcomania, Tedshen Oasis (Hauser), 1 J, 

 Bokhara. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus SCOTOCAMPA. 



Type. 

 Scotocampa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 30 indigesta. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the 

 frons, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below, the 3rd short; irons with 

 vertical ridge; eyes large, round; antenna; of male minutely serrate and 

 with fascicles of long cilia; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiaa moderately fringed with 

 hair, the fore tarsi with curved claw-like spines on 1st joint ; abdomen with 

 some rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



