Pl-.RIGRAPHA, 407 



♦1730. Perigrapha pectinata. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 32.) 



T(Bmoca7)ipa pectinafa, Sm\ih,'Pr. U.S. Nat. Miis. x. p. 475(1887); id. 

 Cat. Noct. A'. Am. p. 204. 



(5 . Head and thorax ochreous-grey and brown ; abdomen 

 rufous irrorated with black, the ventral surface pale. Fore wing 

 brownish grey irrorated with black ; subbasal and antemedial 

 lines, claviform and orbicular obsolete ; an indistinct medial line 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then sinuous ; reniform 

 represented by a curved reddish-oehreous discoidal bar, concave 

 towards base and defined on inner side by a slight blackish bar 

 arising from cnsta and joining the medial line at lower angle of 

 cell ; a curved postmedial series of black points on the veins ; 

 traces of a pale sinuous subterminal line ; a series of black points 

 just before termen ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing grey-brown with a faint rufous tinge ; cilia white tinged with 

 rufous ; the underside whitish iri'oi-ated with black, a discoidal 

 lunule, sinuous ^wstmedial line with darker streaks at the veins, 

 and some lunules on apical part of termen, 



Uab. U.S.A., California, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. III. Anteunae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with tlie inner margin not crimson prases. 



B. Fore wiug with the inner margin crimson tranajiarens. 



1731. Perigrapha prseses. 



Perigrapha ^jrtyses, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Sury. Terr. t. p. 202 

 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 206. 



S . Head purplish, the sides of palpi and frons black ; antennae 

 and tegulae bright rufous ; thorax deep purple-brown, some of the 

 hairs slightly tipped with grey, the metathoracic crest rufous ; 

 pectus purplish ; tibise whitish at extremity ; abdomen purplish red 

 irrorated with dark brown, the dorsal crest at base mixed Avith 

 white. Fore Aving dark brown with purplish reflections and 



T^ig.WO. — PerUjntphapraHes, (^ . \. 



irrorated with a few white scales ; traces of a waved rufous sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold : antemedial line indistinct, 

 slightly defined by rufous on outer side towards costa, on inner 

 side below cell, oblique from costa to median nervure, then waved ; 



