Mr. A.G. Butler on new Species of Agaristide. 1438 
downwards, and slightly interrupted by the first and second 
branches ; apical fringe white ; secondaries with a broad tawny 
patch extending from the middle of the internal margin to the 
subcostal nervure, where it terminates in an obtuse point: 
thorax dark brown; a pale yellow fringe on the anterior 
margin of the collar: abdomen orange (much rubbed in the 
type); apical fringe white: wings below nearly as above; 
body below dull ochreous. 
E:xpanse of wings 2 inches 10 lines. 
Sarawak (Wallace). Type, B.M. 
Possibly the female of /. hesperoides ; but the latter species 
has the central band of primaries shorter, broader, not diffused 
or interrupted ; the tawny orange patch in secondaries only 
extended to the origin of third median branch; the collar 
ochreous; the underside of the wings shot with purple and 
green; the body, costa of primaries, and a broad central dif- 
fused band bright orange. 
12. Husemia pulchra, n. sp. Pl. XIII. fig. 4. 
?. Primaries above black; a broad oblique stramineous 
band from middle of costa to near external angle ; apical fringe 
white ; secondaries deep reddish tawny, with the base and a 
broad external border black; fringe white: thorax black ; 
front of collar white: abdomen orange-tawny: primaries 
below dull black, shot with blue; veins brown; central band 
broader than above, creamy white ; apical fringe white : secon- 
daries rather paler than above; base and outer margin shot 
with green and crossed by brown nervures: body ochreous. 
Iixpanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. 
Muhrut, India (fF. Walker). Type, B.M. 
This species was presented to the Collection by the Rev. F. 
Walker. 
13. Husemia vittata, n. sp. 
Allied to #. Belangerii and EF. Moore’. Primaries dark 
brown; a small elongate spot just below median nervure at 
basal fourth of wing, and a broad, rather irregular, postmedian 
oblique band from costal nervure to near external angle, 
sulphur-yellow ; cell transversely streaked with plumbaginous ; 
a transverse series of six plumbaginous spots just beyond the 
yellow band: secondaries salmon-colour; costal area brown ; 
a central subcostal spot, touching the costal area, and a deep] 
excavated broad marginal border dark brown: thorax dark 
brown ; antennz silvery whitish; abdomen ochreous, barred 
with black : wings below paler than above ; primaries without 
