306 NOCTUIDiE. 



slight white annuli, the former rather oblique elliptical, the latter 

 constricted at middle ; faint traces of a diffused medial line ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, double, with white spot at costa, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to black and 

 hite points on the veins, somewhat outwardly oblique below 

 ein 3, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 represented by faint diffused dark irroration on the whitish areas; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia whitish with terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous, 

 the veins dark, the terminal half suffused with fuscous from costa 

 to vein 2 ; cilia yellowish white tipped with fuscous at apex ; the 

 underside white, the costal area irrorated with fuscous and with 

 fuscous apical patch, a slight waved postmedial line and diffused 

 subterminal line from costa to vein 2. 



2 . Thorax blue-grey ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous ; 

 fore wing with the white areas replaced by blue-grey and the 

 blackish areas by red -brown ; the grey areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, some red-brown in cell between the stigmata and below 

 cell ; the stigmata blue-grey with their centres defined by brown, 

 the orbicular small elliptical, the reniform figure-of-8 shaped, the 

 claviform a dark patch ; the lines more distinct. Hind wing 

 uniformly suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. confederafa, J . Fore wing with the claviform black, 

 the antemedial line entire, angled inwards on vein l,then excurved, 

 orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the dark mark repre- 

 senting the terminal line more distinct. 



Ab. 2. mfelix, c? $ • Head and thorax red-brown mixed with 

 some grey scales ; fore wing red-brown irrorated with pale scales, 

 the inner area slightly paler, the subapieal patch distinctly paler, 

 the markings indistinct. 



Hab. U.S.A., E. States from Maine to Florida, 2 c? , 1 $ , type 

 coiifederata, New York, 1 5 , Florida {Douhleday, NicoJ), 2 $ type 

 infelix ; Guatemala (Itodrir/uez), 1 (S ; Costa Ktca, Sta. Clara Valley 

 (ZurcJier), 1 cJ , Candelaria Mts. ( Underivood), 1 $ ; Panama, Chiriqui 

 {Champion, Ribhe), 1 c? , 4 5, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Jamaica 

 {Martin), 1 $ , Gordon Town {Kaye), 1 d" , Cinchona {Kaye), 1 2 , 

 Moneague ( Walsingham), 1 c? , 1 § ; Cui5A,Earacoa (ScJuius), 3 c? , 

 25, Alcadro {ScJiaus), 1 d ; Haiti (Tweedie), 1 $; Dominica 

 (Elliott), 1 (5,2$; Sta. Lucia, 3 d ; St. Vincent (B. H. Smith), 

 2 S ; Tkinidad, Cuparo {Kaye), i $ ; Bk. Guiana, Bartica {Kaye), 

 1 ,5 ; Brazil, Amazons, Parana de Buyassu {Austen), Id", 1 $, 

 Organ Mts., Tijuca ( IFa^wcr), 1 5; Peru, Callao (J. J. Walker), 

 1 (5 ; Pakaguay, Sapucay {Foster), 1 d" , 2 § ; hab. ign. 1 d' type 

 jpalpalis. Exp. 36-46 millim. 



3100. Perigea griseirena, n. sp. (Plate CXV. fig. 17.) 



d' . Head and thorax bright red-brown; frons and a bar on 

 vertex of head whitish, the former with lateral black bars ; palpi 

 with the tips of 2nd and 3rd joints whitish ; vertex of thorax with 

 fascia of white and fuscoua scales ; pectus yellow at sides ; legs 



