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of body and wings shaded over with cinnamon, being far less 

 bright than in macromera, especially on the wings. Expanse : 

 c?9 66-82 mm. 



Hab. W. and E. Himalayas, from Chitral to Sikkim, south- 

 wards to Karachi. We have bred the subspecies at Simla and 

 Mussooree, where it is as common as macromera is in the 

 Khasi Hills. 



Egg, Larva, Pupa, Habits. — All closely resembling those of 

 e. macromera. 



149 b. Pergesa elpenor macromera (Butl.). (Fig. 104, imago; 

 PI. V, fig. 1, larva, fig. 2, pupa ; PL XV, fig. 8, larva). 



Chserocampa macromera, Butler, 1875, p. 7 (Sylhet) ; id., 1881 B, 

 p. 7, pi. lxxix, fig. 3 ; Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887, p. 14 (Shillong). 



Pergesa elpenor macromera, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 737 ; 

 MeU, 1922, p. 279, pi. ix, fig. 16 (larva), pi. xiv, figs. 25, 26, 

 pi. xviii, figs. 47, 48 (pupa), pi. xxxi, fig. 4(2); Seitz, 1929, 

 p. 563, t. 67 a. 



Chserocampa elpenor (Linn.), Hampson, 1892. p. 84; Buckler, 

 1887, p. 113, pi. xxv, fig. 3 a-c (larva). 



Imago. — ^9. Head and thorax bronze-green ; antenna, sides 

 of palpus and head pink ; broad crimson subdorsal and lateral 



;: 



"^^ A 





Fig. 104. — Pergesa Walk. 

 A, P. elpenor macromera (Butl.) : B, harpe ; C, penis-sheath. 



stripes on thorax ; abdomen crimson with a broad bronze- 

 green subdorsal stripe, and a pink and a black lateral side- 

 patch. Fore wing bronze-green ; costa crimson ; an oblique 

 pink band from beyond cell to inner margin, and another 

 parallel with it from apex to inner margin ; a broad marginal 



