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Genus PULCHERIA. 

 Pulcheria, Alph. Slett. enfc. Zeifc. 1887, p. 170 



Tvpe. 

 catomelas. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about vertex of head and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd short, porrect ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; aiitennse of male bipeutinate with moderate 

 branches, the apex simple ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the 

 prothorax with sharp triangular crest ; the metathorax without crest ; tibiae 

 fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments and 

 literal tufts of hair on terminal segments. Fore wing with the apex rect- 

 angular, the termeii crenulate, oblique towards tornus ; 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; 

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

 tomosing with the cell near base only. 



3825. Pulcheria catomelas. 



P^dchcria catomelas, k\Y>\\. HiM: ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 170; id. Rom. M6m. 

 V. p. 173, pi. 7. ff. 10, a, b; Staid. Cat Lep. pal. p. 212. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with some 

 brown, the last dorsally tinged with fuscous leaving faint pale 

 segmental lines. Pore wing whitish tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal 

 line indistinctlj' double, angled outwards in and below cell and 

 eiidin^j at submedian fold ; aiitemedial line indistinctly double and 

 somewhat dentate, oblique from costa to middle of cell, then 



Fig. 42. — Pulcheria catomelas, <$ . \. 



inwardly oblique ; orbicular with faint whitish aunulu.^!, its centre 

 tinged with fuscous, oblique elliptical ; reniform slightly defined by 

 fuscous and with fuscous line in centre, an indistinct medial shade, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double, minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 6, then 

 oblique; subterminal line represented by a slight dark mark on 

 costa, an oblique shade from vein 7 to 5 and slight marks in the 

 interspaces from below vein 4 to inner margin ; a fine waved 

 terminal blackish liue. Hind wing black-biown, the base grey; 

 cilia white slightly tinged with brown at base. Underside of fore 

 wing sufi'used with black-brown leaving the costal and terminal 

 areas grey ; hind wing black-brown, the base grey with irregularly 

 diffused outer edges, the costa and inner margin grej'. 



Hah, E. Turkestan, Kashgar, 2 J • Ex'p. 38-42 millim. 



