346 NOCTUIDiE. 



3158. Perigea xanthioides. (Plate CXVII. fig. 3.) 



Perigea xanthioides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 227 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 152. 

 Perigea cnixa, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. ?10 (1875). 

 Hadena trita, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Nat. Ges. xiv. p. 50 (18S8). 



Head and thorax yellow mixed with red ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 frons with black lateral bars ; tegulae with slight brown lines at 

 middle and tips ; prothoracic crests with some fuscous at tips ; 

 metathorax with blackish patch; fore tibiae and tarsi dark brown, 

 the latter banded with reddish ; abdomen pale yellow suffused with 

 brown except at base, the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing orange- 

 yellow suff'used with red, especially on medial and terminal areas, 

 the veins with fuscous streaks ; subbasal line red, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold, a brownish patch on costa beyond it and a point 

 in submedian fold ; a dark point on inner margin before the dark 

 waved antemedial line which is angled inwards to black points on 

 the veins ; orbicular yellow defined by brown and with reddish 

 point in centre, rather small, round ; reniform yellow defined by 

 diffused brown and with black point in lower part, irregularly 

 rounded; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line brown, 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then with double series 

 of prominent black points beyond it on the veins, obliquely incurved 

 below vein 4, some yellow points with brown strise between them 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line diffused, brown with yellow 

 marks beypnd it from costa and below veins 6 and 2, bent outwards 

 between veins 7 and 6 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing yellowish 

 suffused with brown, a terminal series of slight dark points and 

 faint yellowish line at base of cilia ; the underside whitish, the 

 costal half yellowish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot 

 and terminal series of points. 



Ab. 1. eniva. Head, thorax, and fore wing very much paler 

 (? faded), whitish tinged with rufous and fuscous ; hind wing white, 

 the terminal area tinged with pale brown. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., E. States to Florida, N. York (Pacl-ard), 



3 5 , Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrich), 1 c? , Florida 

 (Doubledmj), 'Z ? type, Kansas, 2 ^ , Texas, Dallas (Boll), 2 J , 



4 2 'type enixa ; Jamaica ; Cuba, Baracoa (*Sc^rttw), 1 $ ; Trinidad, 

 Cuparo (Kcci/e), 1 $ ; Brazil, Organ Mrs., Tijuca {Wagner), 2 $ . 

 ^.r/). 28-36' millim. 



*3159. Perigea abstemia. (Plate CXYII. fig. 4.) 



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



(5 . Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 some black ; palpi black at sides except at extremity of 2nd joint ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; tegulas with blackish line near tips ; 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous suffused with 

 brown, pale at base, the crests blackish. Fore wing yellow tinged 



