. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PERISONICA. 435 with pale annulus, the lower part darkened by the medial shade, which is oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial line double, the outer line reduced to points on the veins, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal. Fig. 117.—Perigonica fulminans, (^. \. line distinct, whitish, incurved below vein 4. Hind wing white, slightly tinged with rufous on marginal areas ; the underside with the marginal areas irrorated with dark brown, a black discoidal point. Hah.


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PERISONICA. 435 with pale annulus, the lower part darkened by the medial shade, which is oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial line double, the outer line reduced to points on the veins, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal. Fig. 117.—Perigonica fulminans, (^. \. line distinct, whitish, incurved below vein 4. Hind wing white, slightly tinged with rufous on marginal areas ; the underside with the marginal areas irrorated with dark brown, a black discoidal point. Hah. , Colorado, 1 S , Arizona, Prescott (Oslar), 1 J, 1 $ . Exjy. 42 millim. 1773. Perigonica tertia. (Plate XC. fig. 30.) Perigonica tertia, Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 168 (1902); id. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. V. p. 294 (1903). Head and thorax pale rufous, some of the hairs tipped with black ; abdomen pale rufous irrorated with black. Fore wing pale rufous, prominently irrorated with black ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, rather irregularly waved and somewhat oblique ; orbicular and reniform with ill-defined pale annuli, the former small, round, the latter rather constricted at middle and with some fuscous in its lower part; a more or less distinct medial shade oblique from costa to median nervure, where it is angled ; postmedial line slightly waved, bent outwards below costa, somewhat incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, a double series of points on the veins beyond it; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by a series of lunulato fuscous marks, becoming somewhat dentate at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a prominent terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, with a pinkish tinge and irrorated with brown, especially on terminal area; traces of a diffused subterminal band; the underside with black discoidal lunule, traces of postmedial series of points,


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