350 NOCTtJID^. 



areas irroratcd with brown, a brown discoidal spot, minutely 

 crenulate postmedial line excurved from below costa to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more strongly suffused with rufous and with 

 hardly a trace of the brown shade between below and beyond the 

 stigmata. 



Hah. Br. N. Gcjinea, Dinawa (Pratt), types t J in Coll. Eethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 30 millim. 



3164. Perigea pyrostigma, n. sp. (Plate CXVII, fig. 8.) 



(5 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with yellowish ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tarsi black ringed with yellowish ; abdomen 

 yellowish dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing yellowish suffused with dark brown leaving 

 some yellow on antemedial area below the cell, beyond postmedial 

 line below costa and above inner margin and at apex ; subbasal 

 line yellow, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 defined by yellowish on inner side, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular yellow with red centre and defined by brown, small, round ; 

 reniform a small yellow spot defined by red with four yellow points 

 round it and small white spot below it ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 dark, with yellowish spot at costa, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to a double series of black points 

 on the veins, incurved at submedian fold, some yellow points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line diffused, brown, excurved at vein 7 

 and middle ; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown especially on the veins and terminal 

 area ; a slight discoidal spot ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 yellowish white ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 small black discoidal spot, postmedial series of points on the veins, 

 and terminal series of slight black lunules. 



Hah. Argentina, Tucuman, Los Yasquez (Dinelly), 1 cJ type, 

 Gran Chaco, Florenzia (Wac/ner), 2 c5' , 1 $ . Exj). 26-28 millim. 



3165. Perigea octophora, n. sp. (Plate CXYII. fig. 9.) 



J . Head, tegul^e and front of thorax deep red, the rest of thorax 

 black-brown ; antennae ringed with white and the basal joint whitfi ; 

 metathorax with whitish patch tinged with red ; tarsi black, ringed 

 with white ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the ventral surface ochreous 

 tinged with red. Fore wing black-brown, the costal area deep red 

 irrorated with ochreous to near apex, expanding at base to below 

 cell and on postmedial area to vein 6, the inner and terminal areas 

 slightly tinged with red ; subbasal line red defined by whitish 

 on outer side, angled outwards below costa, then waved and ending 

 at vein 1 ; an elliptical yellow and red patch below the cell extend- 

 ing to just beyond antemedial line, which is indistinct, blackish, with 

 white spot before it at costa, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 excurved above inner margin ; orbicular with white centre strongly 

 defined by red and incomplete yellow annulus, round ; reniform 



