TEKIGEA. 331 



3137. Perigea confundens. (Plate CXVI. fig. 18.) 



Mamestra confundens, Wlk. Char, undescr. Het. p. 69 (1869). 

 Perigea aroana, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 194 (1906). 



J . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with white and black ; 

 palpi black, the extremity of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; frons white 

 below, black above ; tegulae with medial black line ; tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with fuscons, the dorsal 

 crests blackish, Fore wing ochreous white tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with black, the costal area irrorated with white beyond 

 middle, the veins streaked with black; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled 

 ill with white, minutely waved, oblique ; claviform small, faintly 

 defined by black ; orbicular very small, with black centre and white 

 annulus defined by black ; reuiform white defined by black and its 

 centre by black, its annulus broken up into spots ; a black medial 

 shade ; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to black 

 and white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line defined by 

 fuscous suffusion on inner side, excurved below costa and at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points defined by slight whitish lunules ; 

 cilia whitish and brown. Hind wing pure white with broad fuscous 

 terminal band from costa to vein 2 ; a fine dark terminal lino ; cilia 

 white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area with fuscous from costa to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing slightly tinged with brown. 



Hah. Bpw New Guinea, Sogeri, 1 6 , Aroa E., type t S aroana in 

 Coll. Eethune- Baker; Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 2 J. 

 Ea;p. 30-32 mUlim. 



3138. Perigea sutor. (Plate CXVI. fig. 19.) 



Perigea sutor, Guen. Noct. i. p. 231 (1852). 



Perigea turpis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 232 (1852). 



Perlqea indecisa, Wlk. xi. 733 (^1857). 



Xijl'ina daufacta. Wlk. xi. 760 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 153. 



Perigea oiiosa, Wlk. xv. 1693 (1858). 



Perigea paupera, Wlk. xv. 1693 (1858). 



Xylin.a, detrecta, Wlk. xxsiii. 750 (1865). 



Segetia fahrefacta, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 146 (1874); 



Druce, Biol.-Centr. Am., Het. i. p. 279. 

 Perigea cervina, Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xsii. p. 475 (1900) ; Djar, 



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



Head and thorax pale greyish rufous mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 black at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulaj with faint dark 

 medial line ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen greyish ochre- 

 ous dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing pale greyish rufous 

 slightly tinged with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double 

 blackish striae from costa and cell ; antemedial Ime indistinct, double 

 at coata, then oblique, waved, angled inwards at vein 1 ; claviform 



