66 LLOYD'S NAtLfRAL HISTORY 



brfam extensis, nigris : capile albo et parte antica thoracis 

 stramineo-maculato ; abdomine fulvo nigroque cingukto. 



" Eusemia with the four wings black, the base spotted with 

 pale blue scales^ and with an adjacent straw-coloured small 

 patch, followed by four discoidal spots of the latter colour, two 

 larger, and two smaller, the latter followed by a curved row of 

 seven white spots, the sixth being very small ; hind-wings rich 

 orange-red ; the base and costa, the latter emitting an angu- 

 lated spot, a broad, irregular, apical border (in which are one 

 or two white spots), and a large discoidal spot connected with 

 the anal margin, and emitting two black Hnes which extend to 

 the fimbria, all black ; head spotted with white, and front of 

 the thorax with straw-colour ; abdomen orange ; banded with 

 black (female). 



"Expansion of the fore-wings 3^ inches. 



" Inhabits Assam. In Coll. Westwood. Communicated by 

 Major Jenkins." 



GENUS XANTHOSPILOPTERYX. 



Xa7itJiospiIopteryx^ Wallengren, Q^fvers. Vet. Ahad. P'orhandl. 

 Stockh. XV. p. 82 (1858); Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1891, pp. 279-292. 



This genus contains the largest African species of Agaris- 

 tidce, and is closely allied to Epistenie^ with which it was 

 formerly included. The fore-wings, however, are longer and 

 narrower, especially at the base, and are provided with an 

 accessory cell, and the legs are shorter and thicker. They 

 vary from two to four inches in expanse, and their colour and 

 pattern is very uniform. The fore-wings are generally black, 

 with white or ochreous-yellow transverse spots, one or two 

 near the base, two towards the middle of the wing, a dash on 

 the inner margin, a large oval sub-apical spot, and often a 



