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«\ Fore wing not yellowish with patches of rufous and 

 brown suffusion in parts. 

 rr. Fore wing with the reniform defined on all sides 

 by white points. 

 -<«'. Hindwing white, the terminal area with 



dark suffusion, in female more suffused. . dolerosa. 

 ■ly'.. Hindwing entirely suffused with brown in 



both sexes . . . . . . . . (jalaxia. 



:lr2. Fore wing with the reniform not defined on all 



sides by white points . . . . . . capennu. 



ht. Forewing with the ground colour yellowish with 



patches of rufous and dark brown suffusion . . spicea. 



■2^'.j9kI. PEK.K4EA LEPIWSA. 



B ~-22a.. Perigea stellata. 



Prospaltm stellatu, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. Ill (1882) ; Hmpsn., 

 Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii., p. 314, pi. llo, f. 27. 

 Head rufous, the basal joint of antennse with white point in front ; 

 thorax deep red brown, the base of tegulse rufous, the vertex of thorax and 

 tip of prothoracic <erest white ; tarsi with white points ; abdomen brown, the 

 basal crest white, the others black, the ventral surface rufous. Forewing 

 cupreous brown suffused with black leaving the discal and submedian folds 

 redder ; five white points at base in and below cell, followed by an oblique 

 white striga from oosta with two white points below it ; an antemedial 

 series of white points ®n and below costa and on the veins, defined by 

 black and with white streak before it on inner margin ; orbicular represent- 

 ed by a small white spot surrounded by white points ; reniform with four 

 white j)oints in centre surrounded by white points ; traces of a waved dark 

 medial line ; postanedial line indistinct, dark, with white point at costa, 

 •strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to white 

 ipoints on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 

 .costa ; a subterminal series of small white spots on the veins, reduced to 

 points on veins 4-3'2 ; another series of small white spots just before termen 

 and a series of points on termen ; cilia with series of white spots at tips and 

 points at middle towards apex. Hindwing fuscous brown, the cilia white at 

 tips ; the underside pale red-brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, 

 ,a faint discoidal lunule and diffused minutely crenulate postmedial line. 

 Habitat. — Sikhim. Exp. 40 mill. 

 R722i'>. Perigea contigua. 



Prospalta cojti/f^rM*, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 122; Hmpsn., 



Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii., p. 314, pi. llo, f. 28. 



Head and thorax deep red-brown ; basal joint of antennse white ; pro- 



itboracic crest with some white scales, the metathorax with white patch ; 



{tibite at base with white points, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 



