P5ECD0LIGIA. SCOTOC.VMPA. 171 



3768. Pseudoligia similiaria. 



Llqia siniiliaria. Men. Mem. Ac. Iinp. Sei. St. Petersb. vi. p. 296, pi. R. 



■f. 12 (1849) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 242, & Add. p. 256. 

 E-pinie-cia argilkwea, Christ. Eoui. Mem. iii. p. 81, pi. 4. f . 6 (1887); 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with pale reddish brown and 

 black ; palpi with blackish marks at sides of joints ; tibiaa at 

 extremities and tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen white tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing grey-white suffused with reddish and 

 fuscous brown aud with some dark irroratioii, the veins with dark 

 streaks, on terminal area with whitish streaks; subbasal and 

 anteniedial lines represented by oblique dark striae from costa ; the 

 medial area with black streaks above and below submedian fold 

 with a whitish mark between them representing the claviform ; 

 orbicular and reniform absent ; postmedial line represoiited by au 

 obscure oblique dark band from costa towards apex to inner 



Fig. 2i. — Pseudoligia similiaria, cf. |. 



margin, diffused on inner side and dentate on outer, and with 

 whitish suffusion beyond it from costa to vein 2 ; subterminal Hue 

 faint, whitish, defined on inner side by slight dentate dark marks ; 

 a terminal series of black strige defined on inner side by whitish 

 marks ; cilia white mixed with black at base and tips. Hind wing 

 white, the veins brownish ; a diffused brown discoidal lumile ; the 

 area beyond the cell irroratcd with brown and with faint diffused 

 subterminal band from costa to vein 2 ; a strong brown terminal 

 line ; the underside white with black discoidal spot and terminal line. 

 Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Tedsheu Oasis (Hmcser), 1 d, 

 Bokhara. Exj). 40 millim. 



Genus SCOTOCAMPA. ^ 



Type. 



Scotocampa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 36 iudigesta. 



Proboscis aborted, mimite ; palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the 

 froiis, the 2nd joint fringed with lung hair below, the 3rd short; frons with 

 Terticjil ridge ; eyes large, round ; antennai of male minutely serrate and 

 witli fascicles of long cilia ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibifB moderately fringed witli 

 hair, the fore tarsi with cnrved claw-like spines on 1st joint ; abdomen witii 

 some rough liair at base, but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 iiiosing with the cell near base only. 



