298 



>ocTriD.T;. 



Sect. I. {Moepa.) Antennrc of male Li pectin at e witli sliort branches ending in 

 fasciculate cilia, (lie branches shorter on lower side, the apex simple ; 

 the fore tibiae friiifjed with long hair on outer side, the mid tibise 

 with tuft of long hair above from base, the hind tihia^ with sligl't 

 tufts of hair at middle nnd extremity; underside of liiud whig 

 without audroconia or woolly hair. 



8109. Pericyma albidens. 



Mcppa albidens, Wlk. xxxiii. 916 (1865) ; Ilnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 476. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed witli dark brown and 

 some grey, the tegulaj with black medial line ; palpi white in front ; 

 jiectus white ; legs whitish mixed with black-brown, the tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, the crests blackish, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore .wing reddish bro\\n suffused in 2>ai-ts 

 with fuscous, the antemedial area darker ; subbasal line black, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 black, sinuous ; the medial area with traces of three double sinuous 



Fig. 73. — Tericyma albidens, S • 



lines, the third excurved beyond the cell; reniform slightly defined 

 by black and with some white scales on its outer edge, somewhat 

 constricted at middle ; a black patch in submedian interspace before 

 the postmedial line, which is black, oblique, and sinuous to vein 6, 

 angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then ohlicpie 

 and dentate, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 wliitish, slighth' defined on each side by brown and with a series of 

 black points on it forming slight dentate marks below co.sta, 

 oblique, sinuous, a dark patch beyond it at middle ; a dentate black 

 line before termen and a tine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing ochreous tinged with red-brown, the terminal area sufFused 

 w itii red-brown except at apex ; traces of a double slightly sinuous 

 antemedial line and of three lines beyond the cell from discal fold 

 to inner margin ; a treble blackish subterminal line obsolescent 

 towards costa and followed by a faint rufous line ; a waved black 

 line before termen; a white line at base of cilia followed by a 

 lilackish line; the underside ochreous white, the costal and terminal 



