338 A L AMIS; PERICYMA. By W. Warren. 



line; subterminal line pale, irregularly crenulate. preceded by a pale brownish shade; a dark spot in apex; a 

 row of black terminal points; fringe pale with yellowish line at base; reniform stigma pale with black out- 

 line; hindwing paler, with diffuse dark terminal border. Described from 2 ?? from Transcaspia. 



luteonigra. C. luteonigra spec. nov. (62 d). Forewing pale grey, washed with darker and speckled with blackish; 



inner and outer lines black, often interrupted, conversely edged with pale ochreous; outer line inbent at costa 

 and followed by a black comma-shaped mark; subterminal pale, marked by the black praesubmarginal shade, 

 which is blackest towards each extremity and more or less interrupted between, forming an acute angle out- 

 wards above vein 6 and a blunt, less prominent one below 4 ; terminal points large, white, in a whitish 

 festooned line; hindwing luteous whitish in basal half with dark scales on the veins; outer half deep black, 

 the fringe white, and termen narrowly blackish grey; underside whitish, thickly grey speckled; both wings with 

 dark fuscous terminal border; head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the last more whitish. 2 ?? from Seffr Kuh, 

 Afghanistan, and 1 ? from West of Dinan, Amu Darya. 



armosa. C. arenosa Eothsch. (63 a). c? Forewing sandy cinnamon, powdered with grey scales: inner and outer lines 



blackish, faintly indicated; subterminal band zigzag, black; terminal line finely lunulate; reniform stigma 

 8-shaped; hindwing with a broad black discal band and terminal dark lunules; the ? has the inner and outer 

 lines of forewing sooty black and strongly marked; the subterminal line obsolescent; the discal band on 

 hindwing less intensely black. South Oued Mya, Northern Sahara. Slightly larger than, but very close to, 

 luteonigra from Afghanistan and Turkestan. 



34. Genus: A lam is Guen. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, with a tuft of hair above; palpi upturned, the second segment well 

 scaled, the third short and smooth: antennae of cf with short fasciculate cilia; metathorax and dorsum slightly 

 crested; mid tibiae spined; pectus, venter, and tibiae of cf densely haired; wings with termen evenly curved 

 and strongly crenulate; underside of forewing of cf with the basal half, of hindwing with the whole, clothed 

 with silky androconia. Type: A. umbrina Guen. 



umbrina. A. umbrina Guen. (= hypophaea Guen,, continua Walk., plumipes Walk.) Forewing dark red brown 



the inner and outer lines black and sinuous; the outer excurved beyond cell and slightly angled at veins 4 

 and 6, and followed by an irregular fuscous band; the basal half of wing crossed by many indistinct waved 

 dark lines; an irregular fuscous subterminal line; hindwing with numerous fuscous waved lines and a sinuous 



albicinctu. black outer line ; the ab. al bicincta Guen, (62 d) has prominent white suffusion beyond the inner line and 



marginata. across the outer area; in ab. marginata ab. nov. (= ab. 1 limps.) the whole forewing is dark except the ter- 



perfusa. minal area beyond subterminal line: -- in ab. perfusa ab. nov. (= ab 2 Hmps.) both wings are dark brown 



seminigra. throughout; and in ab. seminigra ab. nov. ( = ab. 3 Hmps.) the basal half of forewing is fuscous black. Larva 

 green, with the dorsal area whitish; lateral line yellow with blue specks on it; the first two pairs of abdominal 

 prolegs aborted or rudimentary. An Indian insect, which is found also in Kashmir. 



35. Genus: Pericyina H.-Sch. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upturned, smooth, the second segment thick, the third slender, 

 fairly long; antennae of c? ciliated with fascicles and bristles; thorax and abdomen smooth, the dorsum with 

 slight tufts only; mid tibiae only spined; pectus, venter, and femora only slightly woolly; forewing triangular, 

 covered with waved transverse lines; the termen crenulate; insects of grey and inconspicuous coloration, adapted 

 to the sandy wastes which the perfect insects frequent. Type: P. albidentaria Frr. 



albidentaria. P. albidentaria Frr. (= albidens H.-Sch.) (62 d). Forewing ashgrey slightly tinged with brown; inner 



and outer lines finely black; the inner oblique inwards, the outer indented in cell, slightly toothed on veins 4 

 and 3, and forming below three nearly equal curves, followed by an ash grey band before the pale subterminal 

 line; median area traversed by alternate pale and dark grey lines or bands; reniform stigma very obscure; a 

 crenulate black terminal line; fringe grey with a fine white middle line; hindwing with the outer black line 

 only; the rest as in forewing. Larva very slender, greenish yellow, with a reddish tint at extremities; dorsal 

 line finely pale; spiracular line red and yellow, swollen on segments 8 and 9; feeds in spring on Alhagi 

 camelorum. Found at Sarepta, N. Caucasia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Transcaspia, Ferghana and Kashgar; also in 

 N. Africa; a single cf in the Tring Museum from Haifa, Syria is pale brownish luteous in colour, with obscure 

 markings, the inner and outer lines and the terminal line brown, not black; the reniform stigma pale, = ab. 

 rufescens. rufescens ab. nov. (62 e) ; probably a distinct species. 



