PERICTMA. 307 



Ab 4. Similar, but fore wing with the medial area suffused 

 with violaceous white. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, 

 Lagos, Ibadau {Dudgeon), 1 $, Old Calabar {Crompton), 1 6, 

 Olokemeji {Dudgeon), 1 $; Congo {Gurror), 1 5 type cilipes ; 

 SuDAif, White Nile {Dunn), 1 6 , Blue Nile {Floiver), 1 $ ; 

 Be. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe {Betton), 1 $ ; Natal, Durban 

 {Plant, Gueinzius, Durrows, BowJcer, Hose, Leigh), 1 S , Q $ , 

 type and types disjimcta and delineosa. JExp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva. Pale yellow ; the dorsal area with three slight white lines 

 interrupted by pale red bars at end of somites 4, 5, 6 ; subdorsal 

 stripe white partly defined by red below and interrupted at the 

 incism-es, some white and red streaks below it on thoracic somites 

 and small white spots on somites 8, 9, 10, 11 ; lateral white streaks 

 defined by black above and red below on thoracic somites, then a 

 sinuous white stripe to somite 8, oblique stripes on somites 9, 10 

 and streaks on terminal somites similarly defined by black and red ; 

 sublateral and interrupted ventral red streaks ; claspers pale red ; 

 head pale red with pale yellow lines above the eyes and oblique 

 lines across and below them. 



8116. Pericyma detersa. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 10.) 



Homoptera detersa, Wlk. xxxiii. 888 (1865); Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 474. 

 Alamis yendola, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 150. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with brown, the fringe of hair on fore tibia? of male 

 darker, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen brown mixed 

 with grey, the crests darker, the ventral surface whitish irrorated 

 with brown. Pore wing grey suffused with red-brown and in parts 

 with fuscous brown ; the basal area suffused with brown, with 

 indistinct sinuoiis grey lines and two slight siibbasal dark striae 

 from costa ; antemedial line dark, inwardly oblique, sinuous, a pale 

 band beyond it, then the rest of medial area dark ; the medial area 

 with two indistinct double waved dark lines, oblique below the cell ; 

 a minute brown spot in middle of cell ; reniform very faintly 

 defined by blackish ; postmedial line double, black, filled in with 

 greyish and defined on each side slightly by greyish, waved, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then oblique, a dark patch beyond it on costal 

 area with some white points on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; a fine waved black 

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

 wing greyish suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with 

 black except on terminal area ; traces of a double sinuous dark 

 antemedial waved line and of two similar lines beyond the cell ; 

 a treble sinuous blackish subterminal line from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; a fine waved black line before termen and fine whitish 

 line at base of cilia ; the tmderside whitish tinged and irrorated 



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