PERTCTMA. 807 



Ab 4. Similar, but fore wing witli tlie medial area suffused 

 witb violaceous white. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 5 ; S. Nigeria, 

 Lagos, Ibadau (Di/df/eoii), 1 $ , Old Calabar {Cronqjfon), 1 S, 

 Olokemeji (Biidt/eon), 1 $; Co]S'GO (Ciirror), 1 $ type ciUpes ; 

 SuDAX, White Nile {Dunn), 1 c^ , Blue Nile (Fhicer), 1 ? ; 

 Br. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Befton), 1 $ ; Natal, Durban 

 {Plant, Giieinzitis, Burrows, Boivker, Ease, Leigh), 1 S , Q 5 , 

 type and types disjinicfa and delineosa. Exjj. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Pale yellow ; the dorsal area with three slight white lines 

 interrupted by pale red bars at end of somites 4, 5, 6 ; subdorsal 

 stripe white partly defined by red below and internipted at the 

 incisures, some white and red streaks below it on thoracic somites 

 and small white spots on somites 8, 9, 10, 11 ; lateral white streaks 

 defined by black above and red below on thoracic somites, then a 

 sinuous white sti'ipe to somite 8, oblique stripes on somites 9, 10 

 and streaks on terminal somites similarly defined by black and red ; 

 sublateral and inteiTupted ventral red streaks ; claspers pale red ; 

 head pale red Avith pale yellow lines above the eyes and oblique 

 lines across and beloAV them. 



8116. Pericyma detersa. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 10.) 



Homopfera detersa, Wlk. xxxiii. 888 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 474. 

 Alamis yendola, Swinli. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 150. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged Avith brown, the fringe of hair on fore tibiae of male 

 darker, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen brown mixed 

 with grey, the crests darker, the ventral surface whitish irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and in parts 

 with fuscous brown ; the basal area suffused with brown, with 

 indistinct sinuous gi'ey lines and two slight subbasal dark striae 

 from costa ; antemedial line dark, inwardly oblique, sinuous, a pale 

 band beyond it, then the rest of medial area dark ; the medial area 

 with tAvo indistinct dovible waved dark lines, oblique beloAv the cell ; 

 a minute broAvn spot in middle of cell ; reniform A'ery faintly 

 defined by blackish ; postmedial line double, black, filled in Avith 

 greyish and defined on each side slightly ])y greyish, Avaved, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then oblique, a dark patch beyond it on costal 

 area with some Avhite points on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, incurved at discal fold and beloAV vein 3 ; a fine waved black 

 line before termcn and a fine Avhitish line at base of cilia. Hind 

 Aving greyish suff'used Avith i-ed-broAvn and slightly irrorated Avith 

 black except on terminal area ; traces of a double sinuous dark 

 antemedial AA-aved line and of two similar lines beyond the cell ; 

 a treble sinuous blackish subterminal line from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; a fine waved black line before termen and fine Avhitish 

 line at base of cilia ; the underside Avhitish tinged and irrorated 



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