346 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepictoptera 



line commencing upon the costa in a more or less defined 

 triangular patch of red scales ; it approaches P. citrinata 

 of Snellen, from Jamaica. 



10. Perusia maculata, n. s. 



<? , ? . Primaries above gamboge-yellow, sprinkled 

 with very minute red-brown scales (only visible with a 

 lens), and divided into three areas by a slightly curved 

 series of three red-bordered blackish spots across the 

 basal third, and a discal transverse series of eight similar 

 spots just beyond external third, and inangied near the 

 costa, the third and last of these spots large in the 

 female, in which all the spots are larger and more 

 strongly defined than in the male ; the basal and apical 

 areas and inner margin in the female sometimes irre- 

 gularly mottled with similarly coloured spots and dots ; 

 a small black disco-cellular spot ; secondaries pure 

 sericeous-white, with sulphur-yellow fringe ; a few 

 lilacine-grey spots on the abdominal border ; thorax 

 gamboge-yellow, sometimes crossed by a grey-spotted 

 reddish band ; antennae and abdomen pearly white ; 

 wings below sericeous-white, with broad diffused yellow 

 costal areas and fringe ; male with an oblique lilacine 

 dash near the base of the costal border of primaries ; 

 the blackish spots of the upper surface more or less 

 strongly represented by lilacine-grey spots, but many of 

 them wholly wanting ; secondaries with a discal series 

 of from three to six blackish dots upon the veins, the 

 first three being always present ; body below pearly 

 white. Expanse of wings, <? 21 mm. ; ? 30 mm. 



Var. Jiava. 



(? , ? . Differs from the typical form in the absence of 

 all the red-bordered blackish spots on the wings, ex- 

 cepting the disco-cellular and the third discal spots, 

 which are represented by minute blackish dots ; on the 

 under surface the third discal alone is present, but some 

 examples show slight indications of the dots on the veins 

 of the secondaries. Expanse of wings, 25 mm. 



I think there can be little doubt but that this is a 

 genuine variety or sport of P. maculata. 



