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costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved helow 

 vein 4 ; the subterminal line ochreous, mijuitely Tvaved, exeurved 

 at vein 7 and middle and with a series of small prominent dentate 

 black marks on its inner side ; a series of ochreous and black points 

 just before termen ; cilia intersected with ochreous. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, the veins brown, the terminal halt' 

 suffused with fuscous ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with reddish brown, the terminal area with dark 

 brown, a dark discoidal point and postmedial punctiform line except 

 on inner area. 



Hah. EcuAnoE, Loja, typef S in Coll. Dognin; Pertj, Oconeque 

 (Ockenden), 2 c'' , 1 $ . Ex^). 40 millim. 



3126. Perigea roxana, 



Mamestra roxana, Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 476, pi. 93. f. 17 



(1898). 

 Perigea hccetta. Smith, Pi-oc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xsii. p. 474 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 112. 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with fuscous : 

 palpi with some black at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; 

 tegulse with black an null : tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen 

 dorsally brown suffused with fuscous, ventrally ochreous. Fore 

 wing purplish red-brown ; subbasal line represented by a dark striga 

 from costa and patches of black and white scales below cell and on 

 inner margin ; antemedial line double at costa, then waved, some- 

 what oblique ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular with 

 whitish annulus defined by black, small, elliptical; reniform 

 ochreous, slightly defined by black, and with some white points on 

 its edges and a small white spot in lower part defined by black on 

 inner side ; an indistinct, diffused medial line, oblique from costa 

 to median nervure ; ^^ostmcdial line black, bent outwards below 

 costa, then very minutely waved and with series of black and white 

 points beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of diffused yellowish-white 

 lunules, reduced to points between veins 4 and 2, defined on inner 

 side by small dentate black spots and by small spots on outer, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a series of 

 yellowish-white points before the terminal series of black points; 

 cilia fuscous, with pale yellow lines at base and middle. Hied 

 wing yellowish brown, rather paler at base ; the cilia yellowish 

 white ; the underside yellowish white irrorated with fuscous, a 

 black discoidal spot, strong curved postmedial line, broad sub- 

 terminal band except towards tornus, diffused and shading to red 

 on inner side, and terminal series of points. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado; 'Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo'), 1 $ type,, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll,, Orizaba. Exp. 46 millim. 



