PERICTMA. 305 



8114. Pericyma atrifusa. (Plate CCXXXII. %. 9.) 



Homoptera atrifusa, Hrapsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 324 (1902). 



Head and thorax l)lack-bro\vn mixed with some grey; palpi white 

 in front ; pectus white tinged with rufous in front ; legs white 

 in'orated with blackish, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with red-brown, the crests blackish, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing grey suifused and Irrorated with fuscous ; sub- 

 basal line double, black filled in with grey, sinuous, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer 

 black, slightly curved and somewliat incurved at vein 1 ; the medial 

 area with four indistinct double waved lines, the fourfh excurved 

 beyond the cell ; reniform defined by black and with some white 

 points on its outer edge ; postmedial line double, the inner line 

 black, the outer indistinct, oblique and sinuous to vein 6, incurved 

 at discal fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved and slightly 

 sinuous, some minute white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish defined on each side by blackish, dentate, incurved at 

 discal fold and below vein 4 ; a crenulate black line before termen 

 with blackish patches before it at apex and middle and a fine white 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown and 

 slightly irrorated with blackish ; the medial area with traces of 

 three double slio-htlv sinuous lines from discal fold to vein 1 : a 

 black postmedial line from vein 6 to inner margin, followed by a 

 double dentate subterminal line connected by streaks -n-ith a sinuous 

 black line before termen ; a fine white line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas slightly in-orated 

 with brown, a small black discoidal spot, and series of minute black 

 lunules before tei*men. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing red-brown from the antemedial to beyond the 

 postmedial line, the terminal area white with brown patches at apex 

 and middle of termen ; hind Aving tinged with red-brown, the 

 terminal area white. 



Hah. Bechuanalaxd, Lake N'Gami {Lufjard), 1 $ type ; 

 Traxstaal, White R. {Cooke), 1 6 , Rietfontein (Jarise), 1 c? . 

 JSxp. 32-40 millim. 



8115. Pericyma mendax. 



Alamis mendax, Wlk. xiii. 1047 (1857). 

 Dugaria cilipes, Wlk. xiii. 1076 (1857). 

 Homoptera delincosa, Wlk. xv. 1798 (1858). 

 Homoptera disjuncta, Wlk. xxxiii. 885 (1865). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous and some dark 

 scales, the tegulte with two black lines ; pectus and legs white 

 tinged with rufous, the tai-si black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 rufous with the crests darker, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wmg rufous suffused with red-brown, the base and terminal area 



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