BURGENA. 



69 



This is a small genus confined to Australia, New Cluinea, 

 and some of the adjacent islands. The fore-wings are long, 

 narrow, and rather p )inted, with an accessory cell, and the 

 costa is nearly straight ; the hind-wings form a long oval. 

 They are black, with white spots on the fore-wings, and a 

 yellow band on the hind-wings. I have figured one of the 

 handsomest of the four known species. 



BURGENA SPLENDIDA. 

 {Plate LXX VII. Fig. i.) 



Eusemia spkndida, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. (5) xix. p. 214 

 (1887). 

 This species was brought by Mr. C. M. Woodford from 

 Guadalcanar, in the Solomon Islands. It measures rather 

 more than two inches across the fore-wings, which are velvety- 

 black, with a brilliant blue reflection, changing to green in 

 certain lights, except upon the border. The fore-wings are 

 spotted with white ; and the hind-wings are blackish-brown, 

 shot with blue, and crossed by a bright orange band. The 

 head and thorax are black, the former marked with white, and 

 the latter shot with green ; the collar and abdomen orange, 

 the abdomen with four bands, and the anal tuft black, shot 

 with green. 



The North American species of Ai^aristicUc are mostly rather 

 small Moths, measuring an inch and a half or less across the 

 wings, which are rather short and broad. They are black, 

 with yellow or white markings, and are most numerous in the 

 Western States ; but the commonest species is Alypia albo- 

 maculata (Stoll), the larva of which is destructive to the vine 

 in the United States generally. It is black, with two large 



