292 jrocTUiD^, 



Geuus PERIGEA. 



Type. 



Perigea, Guen. Noct. i. p. 225 (1852) spicea. 



Cow^/cff, Wlk. ix. 239 (1856) ctqienticc. 



ProspaUa, Wlk. xiii. 1114 (1857) leucospila. 



Bagada, Wlk. xt. 1753 (1858) spicea. 



Gaphara, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 96 (1862) tetera. 



Myrtale, Dmce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 443 (1891) imitata. 



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

 about to vertex of head and smoothly scaled, the 3rd typically rather long; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male typically minutely ciliated ; 

 thorax smoothly clothed with scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the 

 metathorax with slight crest ; tibite moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with slight dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex 

 rectangular, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

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

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. L Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Hind wing white with fine terminal brown line leucoptya. 



E. Hind wing of male mostly suffused with brown, of female 

 wholly suifused. 



a. Fore wing with slight yellow marks on subterminal line 



at diseal and submedian folds apameoides. 



b. Fore wing with prominent yellow patches on subterminal 



line at diseal and submedian folds subaurea. 



*3091. Perigea leucoptya. (Plate CXV. iig. 15.) 

 Ferigea leucoptya, Dogn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 235 (1907). 



c5" . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some yellowish 

 white ; tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen white slightly 

 tinged with rufous, the dorsal crests mixed with brown. Pore 

 wing bright rufous shghtly suffused and irrorated with brown, the 

 veins streaked with brown ; a short white streak below base of cell 

 with two small obliquely placed white spots above its extremity ; 

 subbasal line represented by a faint pale striga irom costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, waved, nearly erect ; orbicular and reniform 

 Avhite defined by brown and with some rufous in centres, the 

 former somewhat triangular, the latter with four white points 

 above, expanding and trilobate below ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 dark, with whitish point at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, incurved below A^ein 3, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined by brown on inner 

 side, very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of blackish points with slight whitish 

 marks before them ; cilia brown with fine pale line at base. Hind 

 wing pure white with fine brown terminal line from apex to vein '1 ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a terminal 

 series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Colombia, Minca ; Peru. Trujillo, typef 6 in Coll Dognin. 

 Ex-p. 30 millim. 



