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Show 246 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON N E W [Mar. 16, Genus PERGESA, Walker. 19. PERGESA /EGROTA, n. sp. Allied to P. castor, but altogether paler : primaries testaceous; two angulated bars across basal area, two or three indistinct spots in cell, an interrupted waved discal bar, a disco-subapical diffused spot, a litura running from costa to upper radial nervure, and a zigzag submarginal line, brown ; a number of brown hatchings all over the wing, especially at outer margin : secondaries black-brown, costa pale shining testaceous ; a broad disco-submarginal, slightly waved, dark testaceous band : body testaceous; thorax duller than abdomen, the latter with a double central longitudinal series of blackish dots, three basal segments with a lateral brown line: wings below stramineous ; markings nearly as in P. castor, brown; body creamy stramineous. Expanse of wings 3 inches 1 line. Silhet. Type, coll. F. Moore. 20. PERGESA GLORIOSA, n. sp. Somewhat resembles the C. elpenor group of Charocampa: primaries red-brown ; the base, an irregular broad band across end of cell, increasing in width from internal nervure to costa, a narrow lunulated transverse discal line, the apical part of costal area, and a broad tapering irregular submarginal band bronzy olivaceous, dotted with whitish at the edges upon the nervures ; an interrupted pearly lilacine marginal line ; fringe ochreous; a blackish spot on lower discocellular nervure; secondaries dull olive-brown ; a broad rosy discal band, slightly tapering at both ends ; outer margin reddish; fringe ochreous, white at anal angle : body olivaceous, rosy at tbe sides : wings below bright rose-red, crossed by three continuous parallel greyish discal lines ; primaries with costa ochreous, basal two fifths (excepting a subcostal dash extending into cell) dull brown, fringe ochreous ; secondaries with basal area creamy whitish, fringe as above ; body bright rose-red, legs cream-coloured. Expanse of wings 3 inches 6 lines. Darjeeling. Type, coll. F. Moore. Genus PANACRA, Walker. 21. P A N A C R A ELLA, n. sp. Nearly allied to P. testacea, same general pattern and coloration above ; it differs as follows :-primaries more golden, with the transverse brown lines less distinct, postmedian transverse lilacine streak diffused and broader, a large quadrate area from external angle to end of cell suffused with brown ; secondaries darker brown, pale discal streak less prominent and not so red in tint; body above duller: wings below altogether more dusky, disk redder, outer margin of all the wings distinctly dull brown ; transverse lines of secondaries better-defined ; body yellower in the centre and more greyish at the sides. Expanse of wings 2 inches 5 lines. Silhet. Type, coll. F. Moore. Possibly an extreme variety of P. testacea, but I think not. |