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red-brown, the crests dark tipped with white, the two terminal 

 segments with brown bands, the ventral surface pale ochreoixs. 

 Fore wing violaceous grey tinged and slightly irrorated with pale 

 red-brown ; a slight oblique waved black subbasal line from costa 

 to vein 1, the area from just beyond it to just beyond the ante- 

 medial line suffused with red-brown and some black-brown and 

 grey ; the antemedial line slight black, inwardly oblique, sinuous ; 

 orbicular a minute ^^ellowish spot defined by red-brown ; reniforni 

 indistinctly defined by brown and with red-brown in centre, oblique, 

 its upper extremity somewhat produced ; the medial area with two 

 faint oblique waved red-brown lines defined on outer side by whitish, 

 and a similar line excurved beyond the cell then incurved, the area 

 between these lines filled in with red-brown suffusion on costal 

 area ; postmedial line black, dentate, rather oblique to vein 6, 

 angled inwards at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, the costal 

 area beyond it suffused with red-brown narrowing to a point at 

 apex and with some pale points on costa ; subterminal line indis- 

 tinct, diffused, rufous, oblique and waved, defined on inner side by 

 white from costa to vein 5 ; a waved black line before termen and 

 fine waved red-brown terminal line ; cilia with a red-brown line 

 through them and whitish tips. Hind wing violaceous grey tinged 

 and slightly irrorated with pale red-brown ; two indistinctly double 

 minutely waved medial lines filled in with whitish and two similar 

 postmedial lines except on costal area ; a slightly sinuous black 

 subterminal line with a fine line before it, obsolescent towards 

 costa, with an indistinct rather diffused rufous line beyond it ; a 

 fine sinuous blackish line before termen ; cilia with a fine pale line 

 at base ; the underside clothed with oclireous wdaite woolly hair, a 

 slight crenulate blackish terminal line. 



Hal. KoDEiGUEZ {Gulliver), 1 S type. Exp. 50 millim. 



8112. Pericyma umbrina. 



Alamis umhrina, Gruen. Noct. iii. p. 4 (1852), 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths lucl. ii. 



p. 474. 

 Alamis albicincta, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 4 (18.52). 

 Alamh hypophaa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 4 (1852), c?. 

 Alanus continua. Wit. xxxiii. 877 (1865). 

 Homoptera j^lumijpes, Wlk. xxxiii. 888 (1865). 



6 . Head and thorax deep red-brown slightly irrorated Avith 

 grey, the tegulse with blackish medial line; antennae with the basal 

 joint white at outer side ; palpi black-broAvn ; pectus och]'eous 

 white ; legs brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 greyish suffused with red-brown, the dorsal crests darker, the 

 ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing red-brown mixed with, 

 greyish ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double, black, waved, rather inwardly 

 oblique ; the medial area with three indistinct double waved lines, 

 the two first outwardly oblique, the third excurved beyond the cell, 

 then oblique ; a minute pale point defined by black in middle of 



