612 -AGARISTID^. 



142. Mimeiisemia postica. 



JEgoccra i^ostiea, Wlk. Jouni. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 86 (1862) ; Ivirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 37. 

 Mivieuscmia tara, Swinb.Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. i. p. 167, pi. 6. f. 11 (1892), 



Head and thorax chocolate-red : palpi whitish at tips ; frons 

 except at sides, vertex of head, and a stripe on tegulse and patagia 

 pale yellow ; pectus and legs orange, the tarsi mostly black ; 

 abdomen orange, with triangular dorsal black patch at base ; male 

 with black patch on terminal segment, female with sublateral and 

 aiial spots. Fore wing chocolate-red ; an antemedial pale yellow 

 spot in the cell ; a medial spot in and below the cell ; a reniform 

 patch beyond the cell, between veins 7 and 3 ; silvery-blue scales 

 below basal part of costa and on vein 1 ; antemedial points in and 

 below cell ; a discoidal bar and spot below it on inner margin ; the 

 irregularly interrupted postmedial line angled inwards to below 

 end of cell, then excurved again ; some irroration on termen ; cilia 

 white at apex. Hind wing black ; the basal area from costa before 

 middle to tornus orange with curved outer edge ; a somewhat 

 conical pale yellow spot beyond the cell. 



Hob. Singapore {Ridley), 1 S ; Borneo, 1 $ , Sarawak ( Wallace), 

 1 S type t postica and tara in Mus. Oxon. Exp., S 38, 5 42 

 millim. 



148. Mimeiisemia peracana. 



Mimevsemia jperakana, Eoths. Not. Zool. iii. p. 50, pi. xiv. f. 19 (1896). 



5 . Head and thorax deep chocolate-red ; palpi at base and 

 extremity of 2nd joint white ; a white stripe on Irons and vertex of 

 head ; a dorsal white stripe on tegulce and thorax ; patagia with white 

 stripes ; pectus and legs orange, fore and mid tibiae with black 

 spots, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen orange, dorsally 

 suffused with black towards base and with segmental blackish 

 bands. Fore wing deep chocolate-red ; an oblique antemedial white 

 patch from above subcostal nervure to submedian fold : obliquely 

 placed conjoined medial spots from above subcostal nervure to 

 above vein 1, and a somewhat lunulate patch beyond the cell 

 between veins 8 and 3 ; some silvery-blue scales near base ; ante- 

 medial spots in and below cell and on vein 1 ; a discoidal bar ; the 

 postmedial line sinuous from costa to vein 3, then strongly retracted ; 

 the termen irrorated with silvery blue ; cilia white at apex. Hind 

 wing black-brown, with a yellowish-white patch on inner area from 

 base to beyond middle extending to subcostal nervure near base j 

 cilia white ; underside with a white spot in fork of veins 7, 8. 



Hah. Perak ; Borneo, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 9 • Eap. 50 millim. 



144. Mimeiisemia econia. 



Mimeiisemia econia, Hiupsn. Men. Christmas I. p. 64, pi. ix. f. 7 (1900). 

 Head and thorax black; palpi at base and extremit}^ of 2nd 

 joint, sides of frons, and vertex of head yellowish white ; tegulte and 

 thorax with dorsal and patagia with lateral yellowish stripes j 



