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Perixera, n. g. 



Face smooth. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint shortly 

 rough-scaled above, terminal joint very long, as long as second, 

 slender, filiform, obliquely drooping. Antennae two-thirds of fore 

 wings, in male very strongly bipectinated, apical one-fourth simple, 

 in female thickened with scales towards base. Posterior femora in 

 male with dense brush of long hairs above, tibiae in male with 

 median spurs absent. Fore wings with vein 6 widely remote from 

 9, 10 and 11 both rising out of 9 between 7 and 8. Hind wings 

 with veins 3 and 4 almost from a point, G and 7 separate, 8 anasto- 

 mosing with 7 at a point near base. 



Besides the species described below, I have two or 

 three from Australia. 



29. Perixera ceramis, n. s. 



? , 32 mm. Head and palpi deep fuscous-crimson, band between 

 antennie white. Antennse ochreous-white. Thorax and abdomen 

 pale reddish brown, towards anal extremity more whitish. Legs 

 light pink. Fore wings moderate, triangular, hind margin rounded, 

 waved ; pale reddish brown, finely irrorated with dark grey ; costal 

 edge whitish ochreous ; three indistinct obscitre greyish lines, first 

 at one-fourth, somewhat curved, second in middle, tolerably 

 straight, third from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner 

 margin, unevenly curved, dotted with darker on veins; a hind- 

 marginal row of dark grey dots on veins ; ciha pale reddish brown. 

 Hind wings moderate, hind margin rounded, waved, slightly bent 

 in middle ; colour and ciha as in fore wings ; middle line obscurely 

 indicated, others obsolete ; a blackish oval discal spot, containing 

 a white dot. 



Solomon Islands (Mathew) ; one specimen. 



30. Perixera prionodes, n. s. 



(J , 40 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs 

 whitish ochreous, with scattered dark fuscous scales ; second joint 

 of palpi blackish above ; antennal pectinations 14 ; tuft of posterior 

 femora light purplish. Fore wings triangular, moderate, costa 

 somewhat sinuate, hind margin rounded, crenate ; whitish ochreous, 

 irregularly irrorated with purplish fuscous ; a black dot near costa 

 at one-fifth ; first line represented by four black dots in a rectan- 

 gularly angulated series, fourth above inner margin at one-fourth ; 

 a black discal dot; a very faintly indicated irregular fuscous 



