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AGAEISTID^. 



Genus BURGENA. 



Type. 

 Burgena, WIK xxxi. 55 (1864) vana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2Qd joint moderately fringed 

 with hair in front, the 3rd long, naked, somewhat porreet ; frons with rounded 

 prominence ; antenoEe nearly simple, distinctly dilated before extremity ; 

 pectus and femora with long hair, the tibiiB smootlily scaled ; male with the 

 claspers moderate. Fore wing narrow ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellnlars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Hind wing with orange band. 



a. Fore wing with whitish or orange streak below base of 



cell varia. 



h. Fore wing without whitish or orange streak below base 



of cell splendida. 



B. Hind wing without orange band. 



a. Fore wing with postmedial greenish band amama. 



h. Fore wing with subbasal greenish band chalybeata. 



2(3. Burgena varia. 



Bamias varia, Wlk. i. 15 (1854) ; Butl. HI. Het.B. M. i. p. 11, pi. 4. f. 1 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 31. 

 Burgeita transducta, Wlk. xxxi. 56 (1864) ; Westw. Trans. Linu. Soc, 



Zool. (2) i. p. 2U3, pi. 29. f. 21 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 31. 

 Burgena educta, Wlk. xxxi. 56 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 31. 

 Eusemia arriiana, Boisd. Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 100 (1874) ; Oberth. Et. Ent. 



xis. p. 22, pi. V. f. 27 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. 



Head and thorax black ; palpi with the 1st and 2nd joints 

 yellowish white in front; sides of frons yellowish white; orange 

 bands in front of and behind tegulae and across mesothorax ; the hair 

 on pectus, coxa), and femora orange ; abdomen orange with dorsal 

 and lateral black bands, those on 2nd and 3rd segments linear and 

 on 4th and 5th dorsallj* confluent in the male, the ventral surface 



Fig. 238. — Burgena varia, cJ. \. 



orange. Fore wing black ; a short orange fascia below base of 

 cell; a pale yellow quadrate spot in middle of cell; a small or 

 elongate spot above vein 6 and conjoined spots above veins 3 and 

 4 ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing black, with a broad orange 

 medial band from above vein (J to inner margin, more or less dilated 

 on outer side between veins G and 3 ; underside with short orange 

 fascia at base of cost a. 



