PERIGEAPHA. 



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



TcBniocampa pecfinaf a, Sm\th,li^r. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 475(1887); id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 204. • 



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

 rufous irrorated with black, the ventral surface jmle. Fore wiug 

 brownish grey irrorated with black ; subbasal and autemedial 

 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-ochreous discoidal bar, concave 

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

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

 cell ; a curbed 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 irrorated with black, a discoidal 

 lunule, sinuous postmedial line with darker streaks at the veins, 

 and some lunules on apical part of termen. 



Bab. U.S.A., California, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 40 miUim. 



Sect. III. Antenna of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with the inner margin not crimson pi-ceses. 



B. Fore wing with the inner margin crimson traiisparens. 



1731. Perigrapha prseses. 



Perigrapha prases, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. v. p. 202 

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



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

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

 hairs slightly tipped with grey, the metathoracic crest rufous ; 

 pectus purplish ; tibige whitish at extremity ; abdomen purplish red 

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

 white. Tore wing dark brown with purplish reflections and 



Fig. \10. — Peric/rapha presses, (^. \. 



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 ; 



