310 



NOCTUID-E. 



Avaved brown lines, a curved ininutel}' waved postmedial line, sulj- 

 terniinal series of brownish spots on the veins, and a series of black 

 ]joints Ijefore termen. 



Ab. 1. Paler; wings with the lines less distinct. 



Fig. 78. — Pcricyma albidentaria, J. \. 



Hah. Egypt; S. Russia, Sarepta (Chr/sfoj)Ji), Zeller, Frey, 

 Leech, and Crowlev Colls. ; Armenia, Caucasus ; Cyprus, Larnaka 

 (B. Fletcher), 1 6 ; Syria, Mardin ; W. Tuekestax, Turco- 

 mania, 1 c? , 1 $ , Ferghana, Issvk-Kul ; E. Turkestax, Kashgar, 

 Hi. Fxp. 28-34 miU'im. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 270, pi. 53. f . 4 ; HfTin. Eaup. 

 p. 14.5. 



Long and slender ; greenish yellow ; 1st pair of prolegs rudi- 

 mentary. Food-jilant, Alliagi camellorum. 



8120. Pericyma scandulata. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 13.) 



Homojjtera scandulata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. Ill, f. 22 (1874). 

 Polydesma exarata, Mab. Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 42. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous and some 

 grey ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown, the crests darker, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown suft'used and 

 iiTorated with fuscous and some grey ; a faint sinuous subbasal line 

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

 minutely waved ; medial area with two indistinct doiible waved 

 dark lines, the outer excurved beyond the cell; a minute dark .sjxit 

 in middle of cell; reniform with its centre and outer edge indis- 

 tinctlv defined by brown ; iiostniedial line doul)le, blackish, waved, 

 incurved below vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line double, dark filled in by reddish, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and iiu-urved atdiscal and submedian folds; a waved 



