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what Anrivilliu^i says about uaraos of genera (Tris 1894. p. 123), and must treat 

 as no'inina nvda only snch names as are not accompanied by any diagnosis 

 whatever. I hope I shall not be accused of inconsequency because Felder's generic 

 name Pycnodovtis is applied in this paper ; we ought to have given a diagnosis 

 to that name, but we prefer to wait until our researches on the American Agaristidae 

 are more complete. 



Without areole are the following species in Hampson's work : lectrix (L.), type 

 of genus Episteme Hb., iur/ripcnnis Butl., adulatrix KolL, maculatrix Westw., 

 irenea Boisd., latimargo Hamps., fasciatrix Westw., vetula Hiibn., and perhaps 

 negrita Hamps., which is unknown to me. Besides these species, which include 

 numerous named varieties, true Episteme Hb. are also bisma Moore, bijugata "Wlk., 

 and a new species described below by !Mr. Rothschild ; all other forms that stand 

 under " Eusemia " in Hampson's book have an areole and belong to other genera. 



West wood's figure of E. maculatrix M^estw, in A"at. Lihr. differs remarkably 

 from that given later on in Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. K. J. 



fi. Episteme conspicua Rothsch. sp. nov. 



Male. — Vppers/de: forewings black, with the usual slight blue gloss. Basal 

 fifth has a number of scattered metallic blue scales forming two spots behind the 

 costa ; across the apical third of the cell runs a transverse yellow line. Beyond the 

 cell is a broad yellow transverse fascia, split up below the lower median vein so as to 

 form a separate spot at the angle of inner margin. In the middle between this 

 fascia and the outer margin is a row of six very small half-obliterated spots. Hind- 

 wings similar to bisma Moore, but the black outer margin is much reduced, and the 

 red discal area is paler and brighter. 



Underside as above, only the costal margin for its basal half is lavender, and 

 there is a round white dot at the basal fourth of cell ; the cellular transverse line 

 is broader, and the submarginal spots are large, very distinct, and of a lavender tint. 

 Hindwings with submarginal spots distinctly marked, while above they are almost, 

 if not quite, absent. 



Body as in bisma, but the yellow abdominal bands broader, and the pale spots 

 on the thora.x smaller. 



Female similar, but submarginal spots on both wings less develojied. 

 Expanse : forewing AM 38 mm. ; EM 23 mm. ; PM 25 mm. 

 hindwing „ 2.5 „ ; ,, 23 ,, ; „ 15 „ 



JMi. Kina Balu, North 15orueo ; 2cf , 2 ? . 



This species is much larger than bijugata Wlk., which it resembles, and can at 

 once be recognised by the yellow underside of the thorax, the extremely narrow 

 and obsolete cellular band, and tlie ])resence of the round spot at the angle of inner 

 margin of forewing. W. H. 



c. American forms. — We liave a moth from .lamaica of Xoetuoid appearance, 

 which has the antennae setiform and is without areole. The name of this insect 

 we have not yet found. 



Westwood, Tr. Linn. Soc. Load. (2). 1. p. 202. n. 7 (1877), says of his Othria 

 ecnadorina that the areole is wanting ; we do not know the species, and can, there- 

 fore, not say whether that statement is correct. K. J. 



