syrdaja. 
arenosana. 
nabaiaea. 
euryphaea. 
rufescens. 
leucoptera. 
dispar. 
disparella. 
disparoides. 
sabulij era. 
assimilis. 
218 PERICYMA; CORTYTA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
Cl. syrdaja Hmps. ( B.-H . i. 1.) (23 e) differs from the similar arenosa by the whitish, faintly brownish 
hindwings with wide black marginal band. Forewings brownish grey dusted with black-brown. The very faint 
thin dark transverse lines are barely indicated. Orbicular stigma is faint and punctiform and there are discal 
lunules. The pale brownish subterminal line has a dark outer edge on both sides. In $ the transverse lines 
are somewhat more distinct, reniform stigma with pale centre. Hindwings more suffused with reddish brown. 
West Turkestan (Aulie Ata), also in Algeria (Guelt es Stel. El Mesrane). 
Cl. arenosa Rothsch. (Vol. 3, p. 338, pi. 63 a). — arenosana Strd. has more distinct transverse lines, 
whilst the subterminal line is less distinctly edged with black. Algeria. 
Cl. nabataea Hmps. (Pglr . i. 1.) (23 e) resembles syriaca being paler but more heavily irrorated. Subter¬ 
minal line with very sharply angulated black point to the margin on vein 6 and with roundish projection between 
3 and 4, almost straight subanally; edged with white outwardly and black inwardly. Hindwings yellowish 
with wide brown marginal band. A 1 mm wide yellow band before the deep brown undulate marginal. Fringes 
whitish. Palestine. 
Cl. euryphaea Hmps. Head and thorax ochreous whitish, dusted with sepia. Abdomen yellowish white. 
Forewings yellowish white, dusted with grey and speckled with black. Marginal area inclined to bluish grey. 
Anterior transverse line blackish, interrupted, undulate only extending to sub median fold. Posterior line 
indistinctly double. Orbicular stigma white, punctiform, with dark brown surround. Reniform shaped like an 
“8”, brownish grey, whitish at bottom, circumscribed by deep brown. The whitish subterminal line bilaterally 
brown, undulate. Before it there is a blackish shade on costa, curving outwards below vein 7 and having a black 
spot inwardly. Marginal line undidate, black. Hindwings yellowish white, with fulvous veins and wide brown- 
black marginal area with narrow yellowish white subterminal band. Fringes yellow-white. Wing expanse: 
58 mm. Arabia (Sdkal Rhamis). 
35. Genus: B*erlcyma H.-S. 
P. albidentaria Frr. (Vol. 3, p. 338, pi. 62 d). — pallidior Strd. is synonymous with rufescens Warr. Syria. 
36. Genus. (lortyta Wkr. 
The views as to the homogeneousness of the various species in this Genus vary considerably. Whilst 
Hampson in his Cat. Lep. Phal. included 7 species, Rothschild considers them all to be forms of a single highly 
variable species. Until exact anatomical examinations have clarified the position, we deem it best, to accept 
Hampson's subdivision into species. The “species”: balnearia Dist., impar Hmps., and eremochroa Hmps. are 
however certainly not palaearctic. 
C. leucoptera Hmps. is very close to the following dispar, differing by the paler ochreous whitish ground 
colour. There is no darker brownish colouration of the outer half of median area. Further the marginal area 
is grey-white, in dispar it is more densely dusted with sepia. Only very little grey dusting is present before 
the black antemedian. Median area faintly suffused with fulvous. A blackish spot at apex posterior to whitish 
subterminal line. Hindwings as in dispar but with darker intersecting line at fringe. Wing expanse: 30 mm. 
West Algeria. 
C. dispar Pglr. (Vol. 3, p. 339) (23 e). We are now able to give illustrations of this pretty species. —• 
disparella Strd. On forewings antemedian and postmedian areas are dusted with brownish black. — disparoides 
Strd. Forewings more unicoloured pale fulvous, also hindwings have a brown hue. — sabulifera Warr. is illu¬ 
strated on pi. 63 of Main Volume, but was omitted from text. Possibly it is the $ of bifasciata, which Warren 
classified with fasciolata (Vol. 3, p. 339, pi. 62 e 63 a <^), but which is more likely to belong to dispar, all the 
more as Warren mentions “= ab. 2 Hmps.'’ , whilst however Hampson does not in fact mention an “ab. 2” 
under fasciolata. On the other hand he does under dispar, which would then be identical with disparella Strd. 
In this case bifasciata would have priority. It will be necessary to examine the types and then’ genitalia, sabuli- 
fera is described as being sandy grey, dusted with brownish in basal half. Basal area and central area darker 
at costa. Lines very indistinct, double, with paler interfilling. The outer one much less crenelated than in fascio¬ 
lata, not curved inwards under the reniform stigma, terminating nearer the anal angle on inner margin, so that 
the median area is wider. Reniform stigma extinct. Subterminal line paler, sharply bent under the angulation 
on vein 7. Hindwings paler, the lines less distinct. The width of the median area and the marking of the 
lines agree with those of dispar, but the colouration is entirely different. Lower Egypt, Atbara River; only 
1 $ is known. 
C. fasciolata Warr. (Vol. 3, p. 339, pi. 62 e 63 a <J). Nothing is said in the text as to — assimilis (pi. 63 b), 
perhaps it should be subsimilis Warr., although the illustration does not really agree with the description. 
