324 NocxTJii).?-;. 



3127. Perigea dolorosa. 



Mamestra dolorosa, Wlk. xxxii. 667 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Incl. ii. 



p. 211. 

 Hadena taprohanm, FeM. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 3 (1874). 

 Euplexia albomacidata, Semp. Schmett. Phil. p. 615, pi. 60. f. 2 (nee 



Moore). 



Head ;ind thorax fuscous mixed with some ochreous ; palpi black, 

 the 2nd and 3rd joints white at tips ; frons with black bars ; tegulse 

 with black annuli ; prothoracic crest tipped with ochreous, the 

 raetathorax with ochreous patch; pectus and legs ochreous white 

 irrorated with brown, the tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing fuscous ; sub- 

 basal line represented by ochreous striae from costa and cell ; some 

 ochreous and black scales on inner margin before the antemedial 

 line, which is indistinct, waved, black, interrupted, defined on inner 

 side by ochreous strise at costa and inner margin and ochreous 

 point at submedian fold ; orbicular with incomplete whitish annulus 

 defined by black, small, irregularly elliptical ; reniforra with 

 irregular white lunule in centre surrounded by ochreous points 

 defined by black, constricted at middle ; postmedial line with white 

 spot at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then defined by 

 slight ochreous annuli on outer side, dentate and produced to 

 black and white points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a 

 series of Qchreous- white points defined on inner side by small 

 dentate black marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a series 

 of minute white points just before termen ; cilia fuscous, with series 

 of ochreous-white points at base. Hind wing white tinged with 

 brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous brown, a 

 terminal series of black striae defined by whitish on inner side; 

 cilia ochreous white with slight broAvn line through them on apical 

 half ; the underside white, the costal area tinged with ochreous and 

 irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal point, slight diffused waved 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 2, and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. C. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 $ ; Bombay (Wilkinson), 



1 5 ; Madras, Mlgiris (Hampson), 1 cJ, 1 $ ; Ceylon, Kandy 

 (Templefon), 1 c? , 1 $ type ; Philippines, Manila ; Pui (MatJiew), 



2 2 ■ Exp. 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Brown. Food-plant, Comjza hahamifera. 



3128. Perigea galaxia. (Plate CXVI. fig. 9.) 



Perigea galaxia, Eutl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 159 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 211. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey-white ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous and irrorated with white ; 

 subbasal line represented by a while striga from costa ; antemedial 



