LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 29 



Perigonia INTERRUPTA, 



Mas et foem. Ferruginea, caput subtus albidum ; pectus cinereum ; 

 abdomen rufescente-cinereum, apicem ve?*sus rufescens, fasci- 

 cule* apicali ferrugineo ; alee anticce spatio basalt conciso 

 fascia media diffusa spatioque marginali cinerascentibus, lineis 

 duabus denticutatis nigricantibns, linea submarginali arcuata 

 nigra; postica? fascia lutea obliqua inter rupta. 



Male and female. Ferruginous. Head whitish beneath. 

 Pectus cinereous. Abdomen reddish cinereous, more cinereous 

 beneath, reddish towards the tip above and beneath ; apical tuft 

 ferruginous. Fore wings with a concise obliquely-bounded cine- 

 reous-tinged basal space; a cinereous-tinged indistinct middle band 

 on the outer side of a blackish discal point, and including two den- 

 ticulated blackish lines ; a black curved line connected at each end 

 with the exterior border, and including a cinereous-tinged space. 

 Hind wings cinereous- tinged towards the interior angle, with an 

 oblique luteous band, which is widely interrupted hindward. Wings 

 beneath reddish ; fore wings brown in the disk towards the base ; 

 hind wings paler towards the base. Length of the body 12 — 16 

 lines ; of the wings 28—32 lines. 



This species inhabits Mexico, Guatemala and St. Domingo. 

 It was included with R. Lusca in Cat. Lep. Het. Part 8. 



Perigonia testacea. 

 testacea, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. 102. 

 b. Ceylon. Presented by — Green, Esq. 



Genus LOPHURA. 



LOPHURA ZaNTUS. 



Zantus, Bd. H.-Sch. Exot. Schrn. pi. 23, f. 105. 

 Cape. 



Genus AMBULYX. 



Ambulyx Moorei. 

 Moorei, Bd. 

 a. Java. Presented by the E. I. Company. 



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