PERYNEA. 201 



terminal scries of small black lunules defined by white on inner 

 side. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown; cilia whitish 

 tinged with rufous; fhe underside whitish irrorated with dark 

 brown to the indistinct oblique postmedial line, then whitish 

 slightly tinged with rufous and with diffused brown patch on termen 

 at vein 1. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), type tc?i» Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus PERYNEA, nov. 



Type, P. stibrosea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint peaching 

 a-bout to vertex of head and fringed with hair above towards extremity, the 

 3rd short, porrect ; frons with pointed conical prominence; eyes large, round : 

 antenna? of male filiated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and 

 without crests; tibia? slightly fringed with hair, the spurs long; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the 

 termen excised below apex ami excurved at middle, not erenulate ; veins 8 and 

 n from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 1(1 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of discocellulars ; G. 7 

 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with t lie cell near base only. 



5312. Perynea subrosea. 



Rivula subrosea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 580. 



Head and tegulse pale rufous ; thorax and abdomen pale ochreous ; 

 fore and mid legs tinged with crimson. Fore wing pale ochreous 

 or violaceous white faintly tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated 

 with large black scales ; a small ill-defined blackish spot in middle 

 of cell and a blackish discoidal spot ; medial line double, blackish 

 filled in with rufous, excurved from costa to median nervine, then 



Fig. 43. — Perynea subrosea, tf. $. 



oblique; postmedial line double, blackish filled in with rufous, 

 somewhat oblique below vein G, some slight black streak.- beyond 

 it on costa ; a subterminal series of small black spots : a s. re - 

 black points just before termen. Hind wing pale ochreous slightly 

 tinged with rufous, the inner area irrorated with a few Mack 

 scales; an oblique blood-red postmedial line from vein 4 to inner 

 margin; traces of a diffused subterminal line; a series of black 



