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LYMANTRIID^E. 



Genus PERINA. 

 Perina, Wlh. Cat. iv, p. 966 (1855). 



Type, P. nuclei, Pabr. 



Range. China ; and throughout India and Ceylon. 



3 . Palpi extremely minute ; antennas with the branches long. 

 Mid and hind tibiae with minute terminal pairs of spurs. Pore 

 wing with the outer margin extremely oblique ; vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 4 and 5 on a short stalk ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 

 9, 10 stalked, 7 and 10 being given off towards apex. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4 and 5 stalked ; 6 absent. 



2 . Antennae with the branches shorter ; fore wing with the 

 outer margin not so oblique. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 from 

 angle of cell ; 6 present and stalked with 7. 



1108. Perina nuda, Fair. Mont. Ins. ii, p. 117 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, 

 pi. 114, figs. 1, la, b (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 867. 

 Stilpnotia subtincta, Wlh. Cat. iv, p. 843. 

 Perina basalis, Wlh. Cat. iv, p. 966. ^ 

 Euproctis combinata, Wlh. Cat. xxxii, p. 347. 



3 . Head and legs orange ; antennae black ; thorax grey and 



brown ; abomen brown, the seg- 

 ments fringed with white ; anal 

 tuft orange. Pore wing hyaline, 

 with a patch of brown scales on 

 inner basal area. Hind wing 

 dark brown, with the apical area 

 hyaline. 



§ . Pale ochreous ; the anal 

 tuft orange ; fore wing irrorated 

 with brown scales below the cell. 

 Larva greyish green, with short 

 dorsal tufts of black hair and 

 long anterior and posterior tufts ; 

 lateral tufts of grey and black 

 hair ; a dark sap-green dorsal 

 band broken by a white line on 

 thoracic somites and with red spots on its edge ; 5th to 11th 

 somites with subdorsal blue tubercles. 



Pupa greenish ; all the somites, except the two medial, red- 

 brown below with paired black spots. 



Hah. China and throughout India and Ceylon. Exp., 3 38, 

 $ 50 millim. 



1109. Perina pura, Wlh. Char, undescr. Het. p. 17. 



3 . Differs from nuda in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 whitish ; the scaled areas of wings white, suffused with fuscous. 

 5 . Much whiter than in nuda. 

 Hah. " N. India." Exp., 3 30, $ 40 millim. 



Fig. 323. — Perina nuda. 



