CLYTIE.— I'KIUCI'.MA. 297 



*8108. Clytie terrulenta. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 6.) 



Pscudophia terrulenta, Christ. Iri?, vi. p. 93 (18'.)3) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. -245. 

 Pseuda/jkia gentilis. Stand. Iris, x. p. cOO, pi. 9. f. 21 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 245. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown and 

 shghtly tinged with reddish ; tar.si fuscous Avith pale rings. Fore 

 wing grey ii-rorated and striated with fuscous brown and slightly 

 tinged with reddish ; subbasal Hne represented by slight black strite 

 froin costa and cell; antemedial line slight, black, oblique, sinuous ; 

 a whitish point defined by black in middle of cell ; reniform whitish 

 defined by black, very small and constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line black, excurved below costa, very slightly incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4 ; the postmedial area strongly irrorated 

 with black and with a diffused black line bej^ond the postmedial 

 line ; subterminal line whitish, obsolescent towards costa, angled 

 outwards below vein 7 to near termen where there is a dentate 

 black mark before it, then defined on inner side by black marks, 

 oblique to below vein o, then slightly sinuous ; a slight waved l)lack 

 terminal line with black points at tlie interspaces. Hind wing 

 greyish suffused Avith brown, the terminal area darker ; a slight 

 waved dark terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule and sinuous 

 subterminal shade. 



$ . Kedder brown, the abdomen and hind wing nifous. 



H((h. Armenia, Lagodechi, Eldar ; Palestine, Jordan Valley 

 in Coll. Piingeler; W. Tukkestan, Turcomania, Merv ; E. Tukk- 

 ESTAjS', Hi. Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus PERICYMA. 



Tvpe. 



Pericyma, Herr.-Schaff. Sclimett. Eur. ii. p. 429 (1845) albid'cntaria. 



Alamis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 3 (1852) nmhriva. 



Diyaria.Wlk. xiii. 1075(1857) glaiwinans. 



Mcepa, Wlk. xxxiii. 915 (1865) albidens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth, with slight 

 tuft ol hair above; eyes large, round; antennre of male typically with fasciculate 

 cilia; tliorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and nietathorax 

 with spreading crests ; fore tibiie of female broadly fringed with hair, the mid 

 and hind tibia; moderately fringed with hair, the fore and hind tibia; not 

 spined ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crests on 3rd and 4th seg- 

 ments large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 hardly 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 the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 

 developed from above angle; 6, 7 fi'om upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



