PERIGEA. By Dr. M. Dkaudt. 
stelligcra. 
pagetolo- 
phus. 
purpurea. 
abida. 
ulbolabes. 
albigeroides. 
roxana. 
dentistriga- 
ta. 
punclirena. 
circuita. 
albigera. 
carcoma. 
suf/icicns. 
concisa. 
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P. stelligera Gn. (33 a) is very similar to the preceding, much laiger, of a more brownish-grey 
ground-colour, strewn with more numerous and finer small white spots, and with quite dark hindwings. Mexico 
to Brazil. — The Mexican form: pagetolophus Dyar exhibits the thoracal and abdominal tufts more mixed 
with white. 
P. purpurea Drc. (33 a) has purple red-brown forewings strewn with black and white, with double 
black transverse lines, the maculae surrounded with white dots, the reniform macula also centrally white; 
the undulate line consists of white small spots on both sides striped black. The light greyish-brown hindwing 
is tinted purple red at the margin. Peru. 
P. abida Fldr. Forewing light red-brown, irrorated and strewn with a darker colour, with dentate, 
partly double transverse lines filled up with yellowish-white, the ring-macula in a white ring, the reniform 
macula surrounded with white dots, and with a comma-like spot; in the undulate line there are small white 
faded spots. Hindwing light brown, at the margin darker. Venezuela, Brazil. Trinidad. 
P. albolabes Grt. (33 b) has dark red-frown forewings with blackish striped veins scantily strewn 
with white scales and indistinct double transverse lines in some places filled up with whitish spots; the ring- 
macula is quite indistinct, the reniform macula is a white comma-shaped spot, surrounded with white and 
black dots; the undulate line is composed of small whitish lunae being on both sides spotted black. Hindwing 
light brown, at the margin darker. From Colorado. New Mexico, and Arizona to Panama. 
P. albigeroides Dgn. (33 b) is a larger species somewhat similar to purpurea. Forewing red-brown; 
irrorated darker, with black veins, indistinctly double transverse lines, and black and white dotted maculae; 
before the ochreous yellowish undulate line there are small black sagittae. Hindwing light brownish with darker 
veins and margin. Ecuador and Peru. 
P. roxana Drc. (= lucetta Sm.) (33 b) is on the yellowish red-brown ground suffused with purple, 
with rather indistinct, partly interrupted blackish transverse lines, with black and white double dots behind 
the distal line, with somewhat yellowish maculae surrounded with black, the renifoim macula below with a 
white spot, and bordered with single white dots; the ochreous-yellowish undulate line is more or less interrupted, 
rarely quite complete. Hindwing yellowish-brown, at the base lighter. Known from Mexico. 
P. dentistrigata Wkr. (33 b). Forewing blackish-brown, in some places irrorated with ochreous; the 
anterior transverse line is indistinctly double, filled up with grey, the posterior single line is distally bordered 
with ochreous-yellowish, with a large coniform macula surrounded with black, the upper maculae in scarcely 
lighter rings, the reniform macula below white-pupilled, often divided into small spots; the undulate line consists 
of small yellowish-white spots with black sagittae before them. Hindwing light brownish, at the margin broadly 
darkened. Brazil. 
P. punctirena 1TAt. (= praecellens Mschlr.) (33 b) has bright red-brown forewings in some places 
irrorated with dark, with double dentate transverse lines and 3 maculae surrounded with black, outside at 
the reniform macula white dots; the grey undulate line is proximally shaded with blackish-brown, with long 
black streaks to the postmedian line. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin reddish-brown. From Jamaica 
and Hay-ti. 
P. circuita Gn. (= decens Wkr., prolifera Wkr., punctosa Wkr., pupulla Mschlr.) (33 b) resembles 
a small dark roxana. the colour being rather more coppery-red, the undulate line divided into 3 somewhat 
larger ochreous yellowish spots, with distinctly light speckled fringes. Mexico to Paraguay; it also occurs in 
the Canary Islands. 
P. albigera Gn. (- intermittens Wkr., berinda Drc. part.) (33 c) with uncommonly long modified 
palpi like in the imitata- group is a small blackish-brown species, the reniform macula filled up with white, with 
a slightly curved ochreous-yellowish postmedian line on both sides defined with black. Hindwing yellcwish- 
white. on the veins and margin brownish-black. Mexico to Paraguay, recently also reported from Texas. 
P. carcoma Dgn. (33 c). Forewing of a silky lustrous greyish brown, with indistinct double transverse 
lines, with black vein-dots behind the distal line, the maculae irrorated with whitish, the reniform macula below 
with 2 white dots; before the grey undulate line there is dark shading. Hindwing light brownish, in the marginal 
area darker. Ecuador. 
P. sufficiens Wkr. (33 c) has lustreless, brownish giey forewings with quite indistinct, at the costal 
margin double transverse lines, the maculae above open, surrounded with black, below connected by a black 
streak, the strangulated reniform macula centred blackish, and below outside with a black dot. instead of the 
coniform macula with a black spot; the undulate line is composed of small black sagittae. Hindwing whitish, 
at the margin yellowish-brown. Haydi. 
P. concisa Wkr. (= consocia Wkr., centralis Wkr., imbella Wkr. , laphygmoides Wkr., plumbago 
H.-Schaff.) (33 c) is a small, light grey species irrorated with a darker colour, with double transverse lines 
filled up with yellowish, the maculae surrounded with yellowish; before the yellowish undulate line which 
is proximally shaded with blackish-brown there are small black sagittae. Hindwing whitish, at the margin 
brownish. Most widely distributed from Florida to Paraguay and Argentina. 
