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Sect. III. Antennas of male ciliated. 



A. {Myrtale). Palpi of male with the basal joint long and fringed with hair 

 above, the 2nd joint very long with large tufts of hair at extremity on 

 inner and outer sides and on 3rd joint, a tuft of hair from below 

 base of palpi ; antennae with the basal joint dilated and with tuft of 

 hair behind, the shaft distorted just before middle ; fore legs with 

 tufts of hair on inner side at extremity of tibife and tarsal joints ; 

 abdomen with lateral tufts of red hair from base and large fan-shaped 

 crest at base ; hind wing with fringe of long hair and scales on inner 

 margin. 



3095. Perigea imitata. 



Myrtale imitata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ara., Het. 

 '(1891). 



p. 44,3, pi. 36. ff. 6, 7 



S . Head and tegulse ochreous white, the latter suffused with 

 rufous excej)t at base ; palpi suffused with rufous : frons with 

 lateral black bars ; antennae tinged with rufous ; thorax white 

 tinged with grey, some dark brown in prothoracic crest ; pectus 

 and legs ochreous mixed Avith brown, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the lateral tufts 

 blood-red, sublateral series of small blackish spots except towards 

 base. Fore wing grey-white, the costal area rufous irrorated with 

 black to below cell and to middle of wing with oblique outer edge. 



Fig. 51. — Terigea imitata, S ■ \- 



the postmedial area rufous to submedian fold, an apical rufous 

 spot, and the terminal area suffused with rufous between veins 4 

 and 1 ; subbasal line black, indistinct, double, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line very indistinctly double, angled 

 outwards below costa, then inwardly oblique and minutely waved, 

 almost obsolete on inner area, with black point on its outer edge 

 at vein 1 and diffused black streak before it below cell ; claviform 

 a rather diffused black mark extending obliquely to origin of vein 2 

 at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform grey-white slightly and 

 irregularly defined by brown, the former irrorated with grey, 

 rounded, the latter with its centre slightly defined by grey, 

 somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; faint traces of a 

 somewhat waved medial line, oblique from costa to vein 2 ; post- 

 medial line double, filled in with white at costa, then very 

 indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, then produced to a 

 double series of black points on the veins with whitish points 



