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stripe are somewhat obscured ; the suhmarginal lumilcs whitish : body darker, with whiter 

 anal segment and tuft. Under surface greyer, the blackish central fascia of the secondaries 

 starting just before the middle of costa, abruptly elbowed (or almost broken) at the costal vein 

 and thence running transversely to below the first median branch. Expanse of wings 80 niillim. 

 Bhotan (Lidderdale) . 



GARGETTA, Walk. 



Gargetta costigera. (Plate CIII. fig. 6.) 

 Gargetta costigera. Walker, Cat. Lep. Set. Supjal. ii. p. 455 (1865). 



Primaries above testaceous, basal area to the middle clouded with slaty grey ; internal, 

 external, and apical fourth of costal borders blackish, densely irrorated with white; veins 

 blackish, speckled with white ; a narrow short black dash within the end of the cell ; traces of 

 two interrupted well-separated irregular lines before the middle; a widely arched series of 

 partly white-edged black dots upon the veins beyond the middle ; a submarginal and a 

 marginal series of white dots also upon the veins ; a slender marginal black line interrupted 

 by the white dots ; fringe tipped with greyish : secondaries smoky greyish brown, darker 

 towards apex, veins terminating in a marginal series of white dots; fringe whity brown, 

 spotted in the centre with darker brown : head and collar blackish brown, remainder of body 

 greyish brown. Wings below smoky brown, with the interno-basal area and two bands beyond 

 the middle paler, the inner band with a dentated blackish inner margin ; secondaries with a 

 narrow transverse blackish spot at the end of the cell : body below greyish brown. Expanse 

 of wings 53 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



The affinities of this singular genus can only be definitely ascertained by rearing the 

 larva; it, however, appears to have a good deal in common with Phalera. 



CALL.ENIA, Hiibn. 



Callsenia elongata. (Plate CIII. fig. 7.) 



Calltenia elongata, Butler, Ann. 6f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 67. n. 12 (1880). 



Nearest to C. chamoniil/ce, the primaries considerably longer, of a dark cinereous 

 colourwashed in front with brown and with black markings as in C. chamomillce : secondaries 

 sordid semitransparcnt white, with blackish veins, the costal area broadly washed with pale 

 shining fuliginous brown ; a rather broad darker brown external border ; fringe white, 

 intersected by an interrupted blackish line : thorax grey ; the head blackish, a black crescent 

 on each side of the hood and only separated by the central terminal point of the same ; 

 centre of thorax dusky; abdomen whity brown, with dusky dorsal ridge, anus greyish. 



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