CLYTIE.— PEEICYMA. 297 



*8108. Clytie terrulenta. (Plate CCXXXII. %. 6.) 



Pseudophia terrulenta, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 93 (18'J3) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 246. 

 Fsetidophia geiitilis, Staud. Iris, x. p. SOO, pi. 9. f. 21 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 245. 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown and 

 slightly tinged with reddish ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings. Fore 

 wing grey irrorated and striated with fuscous brown and slightly 

 tinged with reddish ; subbasal line represented by slight black striae 

 from costa and cell; antemedial line slight, black, oblique,. sinuous ; 

 a whitish point defined by black in middle of cell ; reniform whitish 

 defined by black, very small and constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line black, excurved below costa, very slightly incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4 ; the postmedial area strongly irrorated 

 with black and with a diffused black line beyond the postmedial 

 line ; subterminal line whitish, obsolescent towards costa, angled 

 outwards below vein 7 to near termen where there is a dentate 

 black mark before it, then defined on inner side by black marks, 

 oblique to below vein 5, then slightly sinuous ; a slight waved black 

 terminal line with black points at the interspaces. Hind wing 

 greyish suffused with brown, the terminal area darker ; a slight 

 waved dark terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule and sinuous 

 subterminal shade. 



2 . Redder brown, the abdomen and hind wing rufous. 



jlab. Armenia, Lagodechi, Eldar ; Palestine, Jordan Valley 

 in Coll. Piingeler; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Merv ; E. Turk- 

 estan, Hi. SJsj). 32 millira. 



Genus PEEICYMA. 



Tvpe. 



Perici/ma, Herr.-Scbaff. Sehiuctt. Eur. ii. p. 429 (1845) albidentaria. 



Alamis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 3 (1852) umln-ina. 



Dugaria, Wlk. xiii. 1075 (1857) glaucinans. 



Ma?joa, Wlk. xxxiii. 915(1865) albidens. 



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

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth, with slight 

 tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennas of mule typically with fasciculate 

 cilia; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax 

 with spreading crests ; fore tibiae of female broadly fringed with hair, the mid 

 and hind tibise moderately fringed with hair, the fore and bind tibite not 

 spined; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crests on 3rd and 4th seg- 

 ments large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 aiiastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully 

 developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



