295 



Sect. II. Antennre of male with verj long bristles and cilia with slight tufts of 

 sciiles at the joints. 



3094. Perigea semiiim"brosa. 



Hadena semiumbrosa, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 317, f. 230 (1891). 



cT . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and some 

 black ; tegulffi with ill-defined black lines at middle and near tips ; 

 tarsi banded with black; abdomen dorsally fuscous, ventrally 

 ochreous suffused Avith red-brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous 

 irrorated with deep purple-red and dark brown, the basal half 

 suffused with brown leaving the inner area before the antemedial 

 line mostly ochreous ; subbasal line double filled in with ochreous, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold, with some purple-red on its 

 outer edge ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique, angled 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform indistinct, defined by 

 purple-red ; orbicular with ochreous centre and whitish annulus 

 defined by black at sides, rather quadrate ; reniform with ochreous 

 centre and undefined whitish annulus, constricted at middle and 

 extending to well below cell ; an indistinct medial line oblique 



Fig. 50. — Perigea semiumhrosa, r^ . \. 



from costa to median nervure, then waved ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly- double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

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

 veins, some minute dark streaks beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line very indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by small dentate 

 blackish marks below veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 and with black marks 

 beyond it at apex and middle, minutely waved and incurved at 

 discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules ; cilia greyish mixed with red-brown. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the basal inner area pale with an ochreous tinge ; cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside ochreous white, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous, a black 

 discoidal spot, diffused sinuous postmedial line, and terminal series 

 of slight lunules. 



Ilab. Madag^ascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 J . E^xp. 36 millim. 



