MIMKUSEMIA. 613 



pectus and legs orange, fore and mid tibiie with black spots, tai'si 

 l>anded with Idack ; abdomen with diffused dorsal black bands. 

 Fore Aving chocolate-red, the terminal area irrorated with yellowish 

 scales; a j'ellowish-white point at base ; an antemedial triangular 

 spot from subcostal nervure to submedian fold, a medial spot on 

 subcostal nervure, and a spot from above median nervure to sub- 

 median fold ; an oblique spot beyond the cell from vein 8 to below 

 ■1; silvery-blue streaks below basal half of costa and on vein J, 

 spots in and below middle of cell, and a discoidal bar; the post- 

 medial line curved from costa to vein 3 where it is strongly retracted ; 

 cilia yellowish at apex and tornus. Hind wing black-brown, with 

 yellowish patch on basal half of inner area extending to subcostal 

 nervure ; an elliptical patch beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 ; 

 cilia whitish at apex and below vein 2 ; underside of costa orange 

 at base. 



Hah. Christmas I. {Andrews), 1 J , 1 $ type. Exp., 6 40, $ 

 44 millim. 



Su])sp. 1. Hiud wing with the yellowisli patch reduced and not 

 extending to inner margin. 



Hah. Queensland, in Coll. Lower. 



145. Mimeusemia peshva. 



FAiscmia peshwa, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 289, pi. 7«. f. 2 (1878) ; Ilnipsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 159 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 



Black-brown ; palpi yellow at base and extremity of 2)id joint ; 

 frous and vertex of head with yellow stripe ; tegula3 at middle and 

 patagia with yellow stripes ; pectus and legs orange ; fore and mid 

 tibiie with brown spots, the tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen 

 with dorsal segmental black bands, the dorsal crests brown. Fore 

 wing with yellow point at base ; a small quadrate antemedial spot 

 in cell ; a medial point on subcostal nervure often present ; an 

 oblique patch from discal fold in cell to submedian fold ; a some- 

 what lunulate patcli beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3 ; streaks 

 of diffused silvery-blue scales below basal half of costa and above 

 vein 1 ; a spot in middle of cell, and a discoidal bar ; a postmedial 

 series of spots, in places conjoined into a line, curved from costa to 

 vein 3, then strongly retracted at vein 2 ; some spots near tornus ; 

 cilia white at ajjox. Hind wing with orange patch on inner area, 

 extending at base to middle of cell and on inner margin to beyond 

 middle ; a quadrate yellow patch beyond the cell between veins 7 

 and 3 or 4 ; cilia white at apex; underside with the orange in cell 

 conjoined to a yellow spot at junction of veins 7, 8. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Kulu, Snltanpur (Graham- Foidkj), 1 (^ , 

 Kangra (//067>,-Mir/), 1 2 : Sikh \yi {Ihnklci/), I J type. (TAdderdale) 

 lcJ,4$. /i'.r^)., (^ 52, $ (',1' millim. 



II''). Mimeusemia l)asalis. 



Ki'sriHiK ham/is, Wlk. i. :>;i (l,S.".t) ; Hull. 111. ]]v[. H. M. i. j). !», pi. .">. f . 2 ; 

 Huipsu. Motli;i Iiul. ii. p. J.')'.); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 



