62 Lloyd's natural history. 



A few Moths not found in Australia have been referred to 

 this genus, one of which, A.albomnrginaia (Moore), a Burmese 

 insect, is steel-blue^ with rather narrow, but very conspicuous, 

 snow-white borders. 



GENUS EPISTEME. 

 Episteme, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. i So (1822) ; Moore, 



Lepid. Ceylon, ii. p. 33 (1882). 

 Eusemia, Dalman, Mon. Castnia, p. 26 (1825) ; Westwood, 



in Jardine's Nat. Library, Exot. Moths, p. 88 (184 1) ; Bois- 



duval, Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 81 (1874); Butler, Entom. M. 



Mag. xii. p. 166 (1875). 



This genus includes larger species than Agansia, with 

 longer wings, and the costa of the fore-wings is not arched, but 

 runs nearly straight to the apex. Structurally it differs from 

 most of the other genera of the Agaristidce, by there being no 

 closed cell beyond the upper angle of the discoidal cell 

 between the two upper discoidal nervules at their base. The 

 femora arvS not tufted, and the tarsi are very long, and almost 

 naked. It includes a considerable number of handsome 

 Moths, averaging about three inches in expanse, which are very 

 numerous in India and the Indo-Malayan Region, while a few 

 species are met with as far north as China, and as far east as 

 New Guinea. Their usual colour is black, with white, yellow, 

 red, blue, or black markings, and their general appearance is 

 well shown in our figures. The type of the genus is E. lectrix 

 (Linn.), the most northerly species of the genus Episteme^ and 

 also the longest known. 



EPISTEME lectrix. 



{Plate LXXVL Fig. 3.) 

 Nodua lectrix, Linnaeus, Mus. Ludov. Ulricge, p. 389 (1764). 

 Bombyx lectrix, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 192, fig. C (1779). 

 Phalcetia lectrix^ Donovan, Ins. China, pi. 43, fig. 2 (1798). 



