310 NOCTUIDJ-. 



waved brown lines, a curved minutely waved postmedial line, sub- 

 terminal series of brownish spots on the veins, and a series of black 

 points before termen. 



Ab. 1. Paler ; wino-s with the lines less distinct. 



Fig. 78. — Pericyma alhidentaria, (^ . }. 



Hah. Egypt; S. Russia, Sarepta {Christopli), Zeller, Frey, 

 Leech, and Crowley Colls. ; Armenia, Caucasus ; Cypkus, Larnaka 

 {B. Fletclier), 1 6 ; Syria, Mardin ; W. Turkestan, Turco- 

 mania, 1 c? , 1 $ , Ferghana, Issyk-Kul ; E. Turkestan, Kashgar, 

 Hi. Exp. 28-34 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 279, pi. 53. f . 4 ; Hffm. Raup. 

 p. 145. 



Long and slender ; greenish yellow ; 1st pair of prolegs rudi- 

 mentary. Food-plant, Alhagi camellorum. 



8120. Pericyma scandulata. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 13.) 



Homoptera scandulata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 111. f. 22 (1874). 

 Folydesma exarata, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 42. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous and some 

 grey ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the tarsi black 

 rino-ed Avith white ; abdomen reddish brown, the crests darker, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown suifused and 

 irrorated with fuscous and some grey ; a faint sinuous subbasal line 

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

 minutely waved ; medial area with two indistinct double waved 

 dark lines, the outer excurved beyond the cell ; a minute dark spot 

 in middle of cell ; renif orm with its centre and outer edge indis- 

 tinctly defined by brown ; postmedial line double, blackish, waved, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line double, dark filled in by reddish, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a waved 



