no. 2372. NEW SPECIES OF LEPWOPTERA—SCHAUS. 363 



cilia yellow. Hind wings greenish white at base shading to brown 

 on outer half; a wavy fuscous postmedial line; a terminal black line; 

 cilia greenish white. Fore wings below silky brown, the inner margin 

 greenish white; cilia pale green, tipped with black lunulcs on inter- 

 spaces. Hind wings below greenish white, thickly irrorated with pale 

 red except on base and inner margin; a large black discal spot; a 

 minutely wavy fuscous postmedial line; a fine dark brown terminal 

 line. 



Expanse. — 48 mm. 



Habitat. — Huancabamba, Peru. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23445, U.S.N.M. 



PERIGEA BAALBA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi laterally reddish brown fringed with gray in front. 

 Head mottled brown and gray; a white shade between antennae. 

 Collar reddish brown mottled with gray in front. Thorax gray white. 

 Abdomen dark brown with a dorsal and segmental white lines. Fore 

 wings grayish white; a little less than basal third on costa mottled 

 dark and lighter brown, this color extending only a little below median 

 vein and crossed by a gray basal fine, limited by a fine black ante- 

 medial line, oblique and curved below cell and upbent to a narrow 

 oblique medial brown shade from costa, which crosses the end of cell 

 to vein 3 ; reniform small mottled with brown, its inner edge pure white; 

 a small brown spot on costa above reniform, from which a very in- 

 distinct postmedial line is deeply outbent, curved, and vertical below 

 vein 6; the line is fine, black, and well defined from veins 6-4 -where it 

 is followed to termen by a reddish brown shade, with a shorter similar 

 streak above and below it on termen; a small brown postmedial spot 

 below veins 2 and 3; brown points on costa before apex; terminal 

 black points, largest on brown portion. Hind wings fuscous gray, the 

 veins mostly darker. Fore wings below : The costa and termen reddish, 

 the former with alternate white and dark spots on outer half; inner mar- 

 gin white, disk grayish; cilia gray with reddish spots. Hind wings 

 below: Costa and termen reddish, the latter broadly so at apex; wing 

 otherwise white to termen before anal angle. 



Expanse. — 38 mm. 



Habitat. — Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23384, U.S.N.M. 



PERIGEA PARISTA, new species. 



Female. — Palpi dark brown fringed with white. Head, collar, and 

 thorax dark gray with some reddish brown shading. Abdomen above 

 dull gray, underneath with large sublateral brown spots. Fore tarsi 

 fuscous with white rings; midtarsi paler with fainter rings; hind tarsi 

 and tibiae whitish with brown irrorations. Forewings: Veins slaty 

 gray, irrorated with white on terminal third; a pale red streak above 

 subcostal irrorated with darker red; basal third of wing in cell, below 



