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KOCTUID^. 



Sect. I. {Moepa.) Antennre of male bipectinate with short branches encling in 

 fasciculate cilia, the branches shorter on lower side, the apex simple ; 

 the fore tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid tibiae 

 with tuft of long hair above from base, the hind tibiaB with slight 

 tufts of hair at middle and extremity; underside of hind wing 

 without androconia or woolly hair. 



8109. Pericyma albidens. 



Moepa albidens, Wlk. xxxiii. 916 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 476. 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 some grey, the tegulse with black medial line ; palpi white in front ; 

 pectus white ; legs whitish mixed with black-brown, the tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, the crests blackish, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown suffused in parts 

 with fuscous, the antemedial area darker ; subbasal line black, 

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

 black, sinuous ; the medial area with ti-aces of three double sinuous 



Fig. 73. — Pericyma albidens, c? ■ 



lines, the third excurved beyond the cell ; reniform slightly defined 

 by black and wdth some white scales on its outer edge, somewhat 

 constricted at middle ; a black patch in submedian interspace before 

 the postmedial line, which is black, oblique, and sinuous to vein 6, 

 angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then oblique 

 and dentate, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, slightly defined on each side by brown and with a series of 

 black points on it forming slight dentate marks below costa, 

 oblique, sinuous, a dark patch beyond it at middle ; a dentate black 

 line before termen and a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing ochreous tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with red-brown except at apex ; traces of a double slightly sinuous 

 antemedial line and of three Hnes beyond the cell from discal fold 

 to inner margin ; a treble blackish subterminal line obsolescent 

 towards costa and followed by a faint rufous line ; a waved black 

 line before termen ; a white line at base of cilia followed by a 

 blackish line ; the underside ochreous white, the costal and terminal 



