326 jsrocTuiD^. 



3130. Perigea pimctirena. (Plate CXVI. fig. 11.) 



Hadena ■puneUrena, Wlk. xi.. 586 (1857). 



Hadena prcecellens, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Nat. Ges. liv. p. 49, f. 21 (1886). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with fuscous ; palpi whitish 

 in front and with brown patch on 2nd joint; pectus with some 

 white ; the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen greyish 

 suffused with fuscous brown, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral 

 surface whitish sutfu&ed with rufous. Fore wing bright rufous 

 tinged in parts with fuscous and with slight dark irroratiou ; sub- 

 basal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; a blackish 

 patch on inner margin near base ; antemedial line double, oblifiue, 

 dentate, bent inwards in cell ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round, the latter 

 somewhat constricted at middle, the inner part of centre darker and 

 with some white points on outer edge ; an indistinct medial line, 

 oblique waved from costa to below angle of cell, then incurved; 

 postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, angled inwards below vein 7, 

 oblique below vein 5 and angled outwards on vein 1, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line greyish defined on inner 

 side by fuscous brown suffusion emitting: streaks to postmedial line 

 above veins 7, 5, 4, 2, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; the terminal area dark brown with black 

 streaks in the interspaces ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia 

 dark browii with slight punctiform pale line at base followed by a 

 dark line. Hind wing white ; the veins streaked with brown 

 towards termen which is suffused with red-brown from apex to 

 submedian fold ; cilia white, tinged with rufous to vein 2 ; the 

 underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated 

 with red-brown, a postmedial series of minute dark streaks on the 

 veins and a terminal series of slight black lunules. 



Hah, Jamaica; Haiti (^'ifeecZ2e), 1 ^,1 $ type, iili;^:). 34 millim.. 



3131. Perigea dentistrigata. (Plate CXYI. fig. 12.) 



Mamestra denUstrigata, Wlk. xv. 1685 (1858). 



Head and tegulse reddish ochreous mixed with black ; palpi and 

 frons black at sides, the tegulse with black annuli ; thorax black 

 irrorated with grey ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with fuscous, the crests black. Fore wing fuscous slightly 

 tinged with ochreous and irrorated with black ; a faint curved black 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line very 

 indistinct, double filled in with greyish, waved; claviform large, 

 defined by black ; orbicular with faint pule annulus defined by black, 

 round ; reniform with faint pale annulus defined by blade, its lower 

 pait filled in by a white patch typically broken up into dentate 

 marks; an indistinct waved medial line; postmedial line slightly 

 defined by ochreous on outer side, beyt outwards below costa, then 



