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3092. Perigea apameoides. 



Perigea apameoides, Griien. Noct. i p. 229 (1852). 



CelcBna plagiata, Wlk. s. 268 (1856). 



Perigea onobilis, Wlk. x. 277 (1856). 



Celsna indinata, Wlk. si. 732 (1857). 



Perigea suhaurata, Wlk. xxxii. 681 (1865). 



Perigea icole, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 414 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 152. 

 Perigea stibaurea, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 277, nee Guen. 



Head and thorax yellow mixed wilh rufous and a few fuscous 

 scales ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; tegulse with 

 slight dark medial line ; tarsi black ringed with j-ellow ; abdomen 

 pale yellow mixed with red-brown, the dorsal crests darker. Fore 

 wing golden yellow suffused with rufous and dark brown, the inner 



Fig. 49. — Perigea apameoides, S ■ \- 



area less suffused, the veins streaked with brown ; blackish points 

 at base of costa and cell ; subbasal line indistinct, double, filled in 

 with yellow, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, red-brown, filled in with yellow, waved, angled inwards to 

 white points on the veins ; claviform a minute red-brown mark ; 

 orbicular and reniform with yellow annuli defined by brown, the 

 former rounded, the latter constricted at middle and with white 

 spot in lower part ; a rather diff'used minutely waved brown 

 medial line; postmedial line brown with yellow spot at costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, incurved 

 below vein 4 to loAver edge of reniform, a series of black and white 

 points beyond it on the veins and some yellow points on costa ; 

 subterminal line defined by dark brown on inner side, angled 

 outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, and incurved at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a terminal series of minute black luuules with yellowish 

 lunules on their inner edges. Hind wing yellowish white, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; a slight dark 

 terminal line ; cilia white with a slight brown line through them 

 towards apex ; the underside yellowish, the costal area tinged with 

 red, a slight dark discoidal lunule, and postmedial points on the 

 veins towards costa. 



Ab. 1. mohilis. Fore wing with the white spot on reniform 

 obsolescent. 



Ab. 2. icole. Fore wing more uniform red with very little yellow 

 except filling in the lines, the white spot on reniform present or 

 absent. 



