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LYMANTEIID.E. 



Genus PERINA. 

 Perina, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 966 (1855). 



Type, P. nuda, Fabr. 



Range. China ; and throughout India and Ceylon. 



3 . Palpi extremely minute ; antennae with the branches long. 



Mid and hind tibiae with minute terminal pairs of spurs. Fore 



wing with the outer margin extremely oblique ; vein 3 from before 



angle of cell ; 4 and 5 on a short stalk ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 



9, 10 stalked, 7 and 10 being given off towards apex. Hind wing 



with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4 and 5 stalked ; 6 absent. 



2 Antennae with the branches shorter ; fore wing with the 



outer margin not so oblique. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 from 



angle of cell ; 6 present and stalked with 7. 



1108. Perina nuda, Fabr. M ant. Ing. ii, p. 117; Moore, !>;>. Ctyl. ii, 



pi. 114, fiff8. 1, la, 6 (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 867. 

 Stilpnotia subtincta, Wlk. Cat. iv, p. 843. 

 Perina basalis, '//,-. Cat. iv, ) 

 Euproctis combinata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. :J7 



rf . Head and legs orange ; antennae black ; thorax grey and 



brown ; abomen brown, the seg- 

 ments fringed with white ; ;m;il 

 tuft orange. Foro wing hyaline, 

 with a patch of brown scales on 

 inner basal area. Hind \vin.i; 

 dark brown, with the apical aivu 

 hyaline. 



$> . Pale ochreous ; the anal 

 tuft orange ; fore wing irrorated 

 with brown scales below the cell. 

 Ldrvd givyixh uiven, with short 

 dorsal tufts of black hair and 

 long anterior and posterior tufts ; 

 lateral tufts of grey and black 

 hair ; a dark sap-green dorsal 

 band broken by a white line on 

 thoracic somites and with red spots on its edge; 5th to llth 

 somites with subdorsal blue tubercles. 



Pupa greenish; all the somites, except the two medial, red- 

 brown below with paired black spots. 



Hab. China and throughout India and Ceylon. Exp., rf 38, 

 $ 50 millim. 



1109. Perina pura, Wlk. Char, undew. H,-t. p. 17. 



cj 1 . Differs from nuda in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 whitish ; the scaled areas of wings white, suffused with fuscous. 

 $ . Much whiter than in nuda. 

 ffab. N. India/' K.vp., 3 30, $ 40 millim. 



Fig. 323. Perina nuda. \. 



