Genera and Species r/Xoctuidie. 151 



3105 a. Perigea gypsina, sp. n. 



? . Head and tegulae rufous mixed with wliitisli, the 

 latter with slight rufous medial line and blackish tips; 

 antennre ringed brown and wliitish towards base; thorax 

 and abdomen white ; legs suffused with rufous, the fore 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore wing white ; some pale 

 rufous on base of costa and below the cell ; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped rufous antemedial patch from costa to median 

 nervure with traces of an oblique sinuous line from it to 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform represented by con- 

 fluent white patches, the former with curved rufous mark 

 below it and rufous above it on costa ; a rufous striga defined 

 on each side by white from middle of costa ; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped postmedial patch from costa to vein 2, above 

 which it is connected with the termen by a diffused fascia ; 

 postmedial line indistinct and dark on the rufous area, then 

 almost obsolete, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to a double series of blackish points with whitish 

 points between them, some white points beyond it on costa; 

 an oblique wedge-shaped rufous patch from termen below 

 ajjcx and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 white suffused Avitli brown except at base and on inner area, 

 darker towards termen ; a terminal series of blackish striai 

 defined on inner side by white ; cilia white, brown towards 

 apex ; the underside white, the costal area and terminal area 

 to vein 2 irrorated with pale rufous, a bright rufous apical 

 patch and terminal series of small black lunules from apex 

 to vein 2. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Kumasi {S<mders), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 40 mm. 



3141 a. Perigea cnjnica/ora, sp. n. 



^ . Head and thorax cupreous red slightly mixed with 

 blackish ; palpi with some black at side ; tarsi blackish with 

 j)alc rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface red- 

 brown. Fore wing cupreous red-brown, the base and costal 

 half to the postmedial line with some fuscous sufi'usion, the 

 veins with dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by two 

 dark striie from costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 double, waved; elaviform a minute black spot; orbicular 

 very faintly defined by l)row'n ; reniform very faintly defined 

 by brown and some black points, irregular, extending to 

 below the cell ; an oblique sinuous line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dark, slightly waved, 

 excurved to vein J, then incurved, a series of minute black 



