. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. PERIGEODES. 291 black towards apex and toriius. Hind wing purplish pink suffused with fascous brown, in male wholly suffused with fuscous ; cilia purplish pink ; the underside purplish pink, the basal and inner areas pale, a sliojht crenulate postmedial line from costa to vein 5 with white and fuscous irroration beyond it. Hah. SiKHiM (Dwdgeon), 1 § ; Bhutan {Dudgeon), 2 $ ; Assam, Khcisis, 1 (5, 1 $, type nijridia; Singapore {Ridley), 1 $; Sumatra. Exp. 40-46 millim. 3000. Perigeodes rectivitta. Ortlwsia recti
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. PERIGEODES. 291 black towards apex and toriius. Hind wing purplish pink suffused with fascous brown, in male wholly suffused with fuscous ; cilia purplish pink ; the underside purplish pink, the basal and inner areas pale, a sliojht crenulate postmedial line from costa to vein 5 with white and fuscous irroration beyond it. Hah. SiKHiM (Dwdgeon), 1 § ; Bhutan {Dudgeon), 2 $ ; Assam, Khcisis, 1 (5, 1 $, type nijridia; Singapore {Ridley), 1 $; Sumatra. Exp. 40-46 millim. 3000. Perigeodes rectivitta. Ortlwsia rectivitta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 353 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 469. Head and tegulae rufous ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with black^ bars at middle and above ; tegulae with black annuli and blackish tips ; thorax fuscous brown with a feAv pale scales, the prothoracic crest tipped with ochreous; tarsi fuscous ringed with. Ferigeodes rectivitta, S • white ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing rufous largely irrorated and suffused with fuscous, the costal and terminal areas slightly redder; subbasal line faint, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; ante- medial line indistinct, double, filled in with ochreous, somewhat oblique and slightly waved, strongly excurved above inner margin ; elaviform represented by a patch of black scales ; orbicular and reniform with faint ochreous annuli defined and their centres also defined by some black scales, the former elliptical; traces of a medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial line double filled in with ochreous and with white points bej^ond it on the veins, somewhat oblique and very slightly incurved ; postmedial area fuscous brown except towards costa ; subterminal line defined by dift'used ochreous on outer side, angled outwards at veins 7, 6 4, 3, 2, and incurved at discal fold; a terminal series of black points ; cilia intersected with rufous and with fine
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