NOVITATES ZOOiOGICAE XXV. 1918. 131 



2949a. Trachea perfumosa n. sp. 



Trachea fumeola Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. vii. p. 186. pi. 112. f. 23. ? r.ec g. Male in Coll. 



WoUey-Dod. 

 U.S.A., California (Walsingham), 1 $ type. Gilroy Hot Springs, 2 ?. Exp. Zd va\\\. 



.3006rf. Euplexia argyrosemastis n. sp. 



?. Head and tegulae red-brown mixed with white, the latter with some 

 silvery scales at tips ; thorax red-brown, the patagia with some white scales 

 at base, silvery scales near upper edge and golden cupreous patch at middle ; 

 antennae dark brown, ringed with wliitish towards base, the basal joint white 

 in front ; frons with lateral white spots below ; palpi red-brown, with white 

 point at extremity of 1st joint and the extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; 

 abdomen red-brown with some whitish at sides towards base ; pectus white and 

 red-brown ; legs red-brown, the tibiae and tarsi banded with white. Forewing 

 red-brown glossed with golden cupreous and sUghtly irrorated «ith whitish ; a 

 white subbasal point on costa, silvery scales below costa and bar to vein 1 with 

 a point before it ; antemedial line dark brown with white point at costa, silvery 

 spot before it below costa, triangular spot in submedian interspace and small 

 spot at inner margin with elongate mark well before it, slightly excurved below 

 costa and bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform silvery, large, a 

 silvery mark below it on inner margin and another beyond it in submedian 

 fold ; orbicular and reniform silvery defined by dark brown, the former rather 

 obhque elliptical, the latter with curved brownish striga on inner side of centre ; 

 an obhque brownish hne from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line dark brown with white point at costa, bent outwards and with silvery marks 

 on it below costa, then dentate, with silvery spot on its outer side below vein 5, 

 patch at submedian interspace and spots before and beyond it at inner margin, 

 obhque below vein 4, some white points, beyond it on costa ; a subterminal 

 series of small silvery spots, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and with 

 erect bar from vein 2 to tornus ; a terminal series of dark-brown spots ; ciUa 

 with white Une at base and some white at tips. Hindwing white, the veins 

 beyond the cell brownish ; a brownish discoidal bar ; a shght postmedial hne, 

 excurved at vein 4, then obhque ; the apical area suffused with red-brown and 

 a faint diffused subterminal line to vein 2 ; a red-brown terminal Une to below 

 vein 2, and red-brown Une through the cilia to vein 2 ; the underside with the 

 costal area suffused and irrorated with red-brown except towards base, a small 

 discoidal spot and cUffused patch above it, the postmedial Une distinct, waved 

 to vein 3, the subterminal line dentate to vein 5. 



Hob. Dutch N. Gninea, Mt. GoUath (Meek), 1 $ type. Exp. 40 miU. 



3119o. Perigea niphosticta n. sp. 



<J. Head and thorax red- brown with some white and black scales, the 

 dorsum of thorax with all the scales tipped with white ; basal joint of antennae 

 white ; frons with white spots at sides ; palpi mostly black, the extremities of 

 the joints white ; abdomen red-brown mixed with grey and with sUght dark 

 segmental Unes, the tips of crests white ; pectus whitish tinged with red-brown ; 

 tarsi black, the extremities of tibiae and the tarsal joints ringed with white 



