Genera and Species of NoctuiJa?. 4.31 



oblique, sinuous, incurved at vein 1 ; orbicular with yellowish 

 centre and white annulus defined by black, open above, 

 small, oblique elliptical ; renitbrm with yellowish centre 

 defined by black and slight white annnliis, narrow; some 

 deep rufous in cell before and between the stigmata ; medial 

 line faint and rather diffused, oblique to the reniform and 

 sinuous from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved and pro- 

 duced to blackish streaks with white points on them on the 

 veins, incurved below vein 4, some rufous points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line indistinct whitish with some 

 slight blackish points on its inner side, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; a terminal series of slight black lunules. 

 Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown especially on 

 teiniinal area; a fine dark terminal line; cilia ochreous 

 white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 red-brown, a black discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, 

 and terminal series of slight lunules. 



Hub. N.E. Peru^ liuancabaraba^ 2 J" type. Exp. 30 mm. 



3169 a. Perigea pyrocausta, sp. n. 



^ . Head and tegulse fiery red with some yellow on vertex 

 of head and at base of teguhe; palpi red-brown; thorax 

 red-brown mixed with fiery red ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 red-brown. Fore wing fiery red mixed with yellow, the 

 terminal area suffused with grey-brown, some grey-brown at 

 base of inner margin ; subbasal line represented by a faint 

 yellowish bar from costa with point beyond it in cell ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double filled in with yellowish, 

 oblique and sliglitly sinuous to above inner margin where it 

 is angled ; claviforin slightly defined by yellow and brown at 

 extremity ; orbicular represented by an oblique downcurved 

 yellow lunule defined below by blackish and a yellow and 

 black point above its extremity ; reniform with yellow and 

 fiery red centre and yellow annulus defined by brown, con- 

 stricted at middle; medial line brown, oblique and slightly 

 sinuous to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; post- 

 medial line blackish defined on outer side by grey, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, red wuth some yellow on its outer 

 edge towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a fine black terminal line and pale line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; an indistinct 

 dark discoidal bar and traces of a postmedial line; the 



