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and a broad undulated golden-yellow lateral border, each undulation with a central black dot. 

 Wings below nearly as in P. castor, but the black markings more pronounced in character. 

 Expanse of wings 3 inches 5 lines. 



Sikkim [Whitely) ; Darjiling {Lidderdale) . 



Pergesa velata. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 5.) 

 Pergesa velata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1853 (1866). 



Primaries olivaceous brown, paler towards the outer border, which is irregular and 

 greyish brown ; markings nearly as in the preceding species, blackish : secondaries smoky 

 brown, with the costal border and a dash at anal angle pale testaceous : body smoky brown, 

 the abdomen slightly paler than the thorax, with two subdorsal series of dusky dots; margins 

 of head and sides of prothorax whitish. Primaries below smoky brown, crossed by a broad 

 belt of pale ochraceous, suffused with rose-red and transversely speckled with short black 

 strigse, its margins very irregular and its centre strongly constricted : secondaries ochraceous, 

 washed with rose-red and speckled with black ; two parallel discal series of blackish dots ; 

 outer border narrowly smoky brown : pectus whitish, venter rosy brownish. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 8 lines. 



Darjiling (Russell &; Lidderdale). 



Pergesa gloriosa. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. ft) 



Pergesa gloriosa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Sac. 1875, p. 246 ; Trans. Zool. JSoc. 1876, vol. ix. p. 549, 

 pi. xcii. fig. 3. 



Primaries above bright olive-green, with broad darker external border ; three oblique 

 deep blood-red belts, confluent upon the inner border, the first near the base with an inward 

 angle at its upper extremity, the second and third forking close to costa, the third bounding 

 the external border and enclosing three diamond-shaped, bright olive-green spots upon the 

 median branches ; costal margin bright carmine ; a peai*ly rose-coloured line along the outer 

 margin, followed by a deep blood-red fringe ; inner margin fringed with snow-white : secon- 

 daries blackish, with a broad undulated dull rose-coloured discal belt traversed by a blackish 

 undulated line ; outer border blackish, washed with rose-red ; fringe brown, with the shallow 

 subanal sinus snow-white, the anal margin sordid white ; the abdominal fringe white : head 

 olive-green, slightly reddish in front ; palpi and antennae above bright plum-coloured ; thorax 

 plum-coloured, with a central olivaceous patch ; lateral margins pink in front of the wings, 

 snow-white behind the shoulders : abdomen bright olive-green, plum-coloured at the sides. 

 Wings below brilliant carmine, traversed by three parallel discal undulated blood-red stripes ; 

 external border of primaries pearly pinkish ; basicostal and abdominal margins yellowish ; 

 basal third of primaries occupied by a large black patch ; fringes nearly as above ; body 



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