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AGAEISTID^. 



32, Scrobigera hesperioides. 



Euaemia hesperioides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 86 (1862); Swiuh. 



Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. in2, pi. 6. f. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het . p. 28. 

 FAisemia tricolor, But). A. M. N. II. (4) xv. p. 142 (1875). 

 Eusemia pulchra. Bull. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 143, pi. 13. f. 4 (1875) ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 1,50 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. 

 Episteme staudingeri, Oberth. Et. Ent. xix. p. 22, pi. 3. f. 15 (1894). 



S . Black ; head, tegulae, pectus, and legs orange ; abdomen 

 orange, dorsally black at base and extremity and with slight dorsal 

 black points ; anal tuft orange at tips. Fore wing with the basal 

 half of costal edge orange ; an obli(][ue pale yellow band from 

 middle of subcostal nervure to vein 1 near tornus ; cilia white at 

 apex. Hind wing black-brown ; a medial orange-red band ex- 

 panding widely to inner margin ; the discal fold broAvn with a 

 small orange spot above it ; cilia white at apex or white-tipped 

 throughout. 



$ . Head and tegulas black ; palpi orange ; sides of frons and a 

 ring round neck pale yellow ; hind wing with the cilia sometimes 

 wholly white, 



Ab. 1. pulchra. Hind wing with the orauge-red band much 

 broader. 



Hah. Borneo, Sandakan (Pri/ei-), 1 2 ^ Kina Balu, Sarawak 

 (]Vallace, Brooke, Low, Everett, Bartlett), 5 c? , 4 $ , type and types 

 tricolor and palchra, type t $ in Mus. Oxon, Exp., J 02, 

 $ 72 millim. 



The type of pnlchra is labelled " Murrut," India, in Berar, but 

 this is certainly wrong, and there were specimens from Sarawak in 

 the same collection. 



33. Scrobigera vacillans. (Plate LI. fig. 17.) 



Eusemia vacillans, Wlk. xxxi. 51 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. 

 Eusemia eudamoides, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xii. p. 124 (1875) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 28. 



S • Black ; palpi except 3rd joint, frons, and tegulfe orange ; 

 antenna; with orange rings ; legs and abdomen orange, the latter 

 with ill-defined black dorsal bands. Fore wing with the costal edge 

 orange on basal area ; silvery-blue streaks below the costa and on 

 vein 1, and oblique bars in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; an 

 oblique pale yellow bar across end of cell ; a small spot above base 

 of vein 2 and large spot below it ; an oblique bar beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 3 with dentate outer edge; cilia white at apex. 

 Hind wing with diffused orange medial band expanding in discal 

 fold and on inner margin ; cilia white at apex. 



2 . Frons and tegulse black ; neck with white ring ; antennae 

 irrorated with white scales ; abdomen black ; fore wing without 

 orange on costa ; hind wing without the orange band ; the cilia 

 wholly white. 



Ilah. Celebes ( Wallace), 1 c? , 1 $ type eudamoides. Edp., 

 (S 64, 2 68 millim. Type t $ vacillans in Mus. Oxon. 



