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surface o£ abdomen brownish white, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white. Fore wing white tinged with brown and sHghtly irrorated 

 with blackish ; subbasal line Hne, black, excurved below costa, then 

 oblique and ending at vein 1 ; a brown shade before the antemedial 

 line, which is blaclf , excurved, and waved ; the medial area with three 

 indistinct double waved brown lines, the third excurved beyond the 

 cell ; a whitish discoidal patch ; postmedial line strong, black, angled 

 outwards below costa, then sinuous, acutely angled outwards at veins 

 4, 3, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and erect and sinuous to 

 inner margin, followed by a brown shade before the diffused whitish 

 subterminal line which is excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards 

 below vein 4 ; some brown suffusion at apex and a waved black 

 line before termen ; cilia with a waved brown line through them. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with brown and slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the medial area with traces of four double slightly waved 

 lines ; postmedial line black, slightly waved, obsolescent towards 

 costa, followed by a brown shade before the slightly sinuous 

 diffused whitish subterminal line ; a waved black line before termen, 

 and fine white line at base of cilia ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal point, ti'aces of three 

 minutely waved lines on medial area, curved minutely waved post- 

 medial line, slight subterminal shade, and series of black points 

 before termen. 



Hah. Armenia; Ctpri's, Larnaka {B. Fle/cJier), 1 5; Syria, 

 Mardin ; Palestine. Exj). 36 millim. 



8119. Pericyma albidentaria. 



Acidalia alhidcnfaria, Frr. Neue Beitr. Scbmett. iv. p. 115, pi. 354. 



f. 1 (1841); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. l'41. 

 Vcricyina albidens, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 2do (1845); 



Mill. Icones, ii. p. 468, pi. 98. ff. 9, 10. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; abdomen 

 whitish mixed Avith brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing grey 

 suffused with pale red-brown ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black, inwardly oblique, waved ; 

 the medial area with four indistinct double inwardly oblique sinuous 

 brown lines ; a white discoidal bar with curved brown striga on it ; 

 postmedial line black, slightly excurved below costa and incurved 

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

 sinuous ; a fuscous shade with a fine whitish line on it before the 

 faint pale subterminal line slightly defined on outer side by brown, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at luiddle, then incurved ; a sinuous 

 black line before termen and fine white line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing grey suffused Avith pale ed-brown and slightly irrorated with 

 blackish ; the medial area w^th traces of five waved lines from 

 discal fold to inner margin; a sinvious blackish postmedial line from 

 vein 6 to inner margin ; a slightlj' sinuous whitish subterminal line 

 faintly defined on each side by brown ; a waved black line before 

 termen and fine white line at base of cilia ; the underside white 

 irrorated with pale brown, the medial area with tlirce min\ile!y 



