PHJEOPYHi.— PERIXJEXIA. 21 



base; subbasal line slight, blackish, waved from ccista to sub- 

 median fold, with some red-brown suffusion before it ; antcmedial 

 line double, blackish, verj^ indistinct and much interrupted, oblique, 

 waved : claviform represented by a small tuft of raised blackish 

 scales ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and whitish 

 aunulus slightly defined by raised blackish scales, the former round, 

 the latter with small white spot in lower extremity ; faint traces 

 of a waved medial line ; postmedial line blackish, indistinct and 

 interrupted, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa; au 

 oblique whitish apical patch, with the indistinct, diffused, waved, 

 whitish subtermiual line defined on inner side by slight blackish 

 marks from it to inner margin ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunulas : cilia whitish, with diffused red-brown lines at middle and 

 tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the inner margin tinged with, 

 pale rufous ; cilia white mixed with red-brown from apex to 

 vein 2 ; the underside white, the costal area tinged with rufous, 

 the terminal area blackish from apex to submedian fold. 



Hab. Br. Xew Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), 1 S, Ekeikei (Pr«<0, 

 6 2 . Ex2y. 42-44 millim. Type t in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



Genus PERINJENIA. 



Tvpe. 



PeriiKsnia., Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 289 (1878) lignos^a,. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and broadly rounded with scales in front, the 3rd long and 

 broadly scaled in front ; frons smooth, with large tuft of scales ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with sealea 

 and without crests ; tibiaj thickly scaled ; abdomen dorsally flattened, with 

 some rough hairs at base but without crests. Fore wing with the costa and 

 inner margin subparallel, the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing witli cell near base only. 



2750. Perinsenia lignosa. 



Perhi(s?tia lignosa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 289 (1878); id. 111. Het. 

 B. M, li. p. 37, pi. 32. f. 7. 



Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with blackish ; abdomen 

 greyish brown, the ventral surface pale olive irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing pale olive mixed with brown and sparsely irrorated with 

 black ; the base with some blackish suffusion ; a slight dark streak 

 in submedian fold near base usually present ; antemedial line dark, 

 more or less distinct, waved ; orbicular represented by a white point, 

 the reniform by a whitish spot usually placed on a more or less 

 prominent black streak in discal fold extending to postmedial line, 

 which is dark, minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 4 and 

 slightly incurved at submedian fold, often with whitish point on it 



