MILIONIA. 237 



This species is a native of Australia. It expands about 

 three inches. The fore-wings are sub-hyaline, pale lilac, with 

 irregularly arranged dark purple spots ; and the costa and 

 hind margin are of the same colour. The hind-wings resemble 

 the fore-wings, but have fewer markings on the surface, and 

 have a broad marginal band, through the middle of which runs 

 a row of orange spots, some round, others angular, and one at 

 the anal angle nearly semi-circular. The head and body are 

 orange, and the antennae black. 



GENUS MILIONIA. 

 Milionia, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 364 

 (1854); Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, iii. p. 312 

 (1895). 

 Antennas slightly pectinated in the male, pilose beneath in 

 both sexes. Palpi short, stout, ascending. Abdomen shorter 

 than the hind-wings, and slightly tufted at the tip in the male. 

 Legs rather stout, hind tibi^ with four spurs of moderate 

 length, and dilated, with a fold containing a pencil of hair. 

 Fore-wings oblong, hind margin curved ; much longer than the 

 rounded hind-wings. 



A genus of rather large and very richly-coloured East Indian 

 moths. They are velvety black, or deep purplish blue, with 

 broad bands of orange and crimson. 



MILIONIA BASALIS. 



{Plate CXLIX., Fig. 3.) 



Milionia basalis, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 365, 



no. 2 (1854). 



This species is a native of Java, and is thus described : — 



" Bright blue. Proboscis and antennre black. Thorax partly 



brownish-black. Abdomen brownish-black, with a blue band 



