298 NOCTTJID.^. 



submediau fold, the orbicular and reniform, a patch on medial 

 area below cell and a patch on terminal area from costa to vein 4 

 white, the last with bidentate apical brown spot on it ; subbasal 

 line indistinct, double, black, waved, from costa to submedian fold, 

 with a short diffused blackish streak beyond its lower extremity 

 and a blackish spot below it above inner margin ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, interrupted, double, minutely waved, oblique ; claviform 

 a black patch, large ; orbicular and reniform white incompletely 

 defined by black, the former irregularly rounded, the latter twice 

 constricted and with small blackish spot on lower inner side of 

 centre ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double, filled in with w4aite at costa, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to black and pale points on the 

 veins, rather oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line represented by a white j^oint below costa 

 on the brown apical spot and slight whitish marks on the brown 

 area below middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules with 

 white lunules before them on the brown area ; cilia white Avith 

 small black spots at tips on apical half, chequered white and 

 fuscous at the brown area, wholly white towards tornus. Hind 

 wing with the basal and inner areas yellowish white, the terminal 

 half fuscous narrowing to tornus ; a terminal series of small 

 blackish lunules from apex to submedian fold, defined by whitish 

 lunules on inner side except towards apex ; cilia white ; the 

 underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot and traces of a postmedial line from costa to vein 5, a 

 diffused brown band, terminal from apex to vein 5, then sub- 

 terminal and obsolescent to vein 1. 



5 . Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Trinidad (Kaye), 1 $; Venezuela, Aroa, 3 i^ type; Br. 

 Guiana, Bartica {Knye), 1 2 ; Pakagitay, Sapucay {Foster), 2 2 • 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



C. Palpi of male with the basal joint normal, the 2ncl about as long as in 

 section B, and with tufts of long hair at extremity and on 3rd joint 

 on inner side oidy, no tuft of hair from below base of palpi ; antennae 

 and fore legs normal ; abdomen without lateral tufts of hair and with 

 very large fan-shaped basal crest; hind wing with the inner area 

 clothed with rough hair but without fringes of hair and scales. 



3097. Perigea simulatrix, n. sp. 



5 . Head and tegulse ochreous white mixed with rufous ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; tegulae with brown medial line ; 

 thorax white tinged with grey ; pectus and legs whitish mixed 

 with rufous, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen dorsally 

 grey-white suffused with reddish brown, ventrally yellowish white, 

 sublateral series of small black spots except towards base. Fore 

 wing grey-white, the basal area to antemedial line and submedian 

 fold dark red-brown, the medial costal area red-brown ; the post- 

 medial area to submedian fold and a patch on terminal area between 



