THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 885 



1721«. Perigea dolerosa. 



Mamestm dolerosa, Wlk. XXXII. 667 (I860). 

 Hadena tafirobawv, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 3 (1874). 

 Euplexia albomaculata, Semp. Schmett. Phil. p. 515, pi. 60. f . 2 

 (nee. Moore). 

 Head and thorax fuscous mixed with some ochreous ; palpi black ; the 

 2nd and 3rd joints white at tips ; frons with black bars ; tegulse with black 

 annuli ; prothoracic crest tipped with ochreous, the metathorax with 

 •(jchreous patch ; pectus and legs ochreous white irrorated with brown ; 

 the tarsi black with pale tinge ; abdomen ochreous suffused with fuscous 

 brown. Forewing fuscous : subbasal line represented by ochreous strife 

 from costa and cell : some ochreous and black scales on inner margin before 

 the antemedial line, which is indistinct, waved, black, interrupted, defined 

 on inner side by ochreous stride at costa and inner margin and ochreous 

 point at submedian fold ; orbicular with incomplete whitish annulus 

 defined by black, small, irregularly elliptical ; reniform with irregular white 

 lunule in centre surrounded by ochreous points defined by black, constricted 

 at middle ; postmedial line with white spot at costa, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then defined by slight ochreous lunules on outer side, 

 dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, oblique 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of ochreous white points defined on inner side by 

 small dentate black marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a series 

 of minute white points just before termen ; cilia fuscous with series 

 of ochreous white points at base. Hindwing white tinged with brown, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous brown, a terminal series of 

 black strife defined by whitish on inner side ; cilia ochreous white, with a 

 slight brown line through them on apical half ; the underside white, the 

 costal area tinged with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 point, slight diffused waved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, and 

 diffused subterminal band. 



Habitat. — C. China ; Bombay ; Madras, Nilgiris ; Ceylox, Kandy ; 

 Philippines, Manila ; Fiji. Exp. 36-40 mill. 

 Larva, Brown. Food plant, Conyza balsamifera. 

 \~21b. Perigea galaxia. 



Perir/ea f/ala.ria, Butl., P. Z. S. 1883, p. 159; Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. 

 Phal. B. M. vii, p. 324, pi. 116, f. 9. 

 Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey-white ; tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous. Forewing grey 

 suffused with fuscous and irrorated with white ; subbasal line represented 

 by a white striga from costa ; antemedial line black, defined on inner side 

 by white towards costa, waved, somewhat oblique ; orbicular white defined 

 by black, small, round ; reniform a white lunule with some black points on 



