62 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



A few Moths not found in Australia have been referred to 

 this genus, one of which, A.albomarginata (Moore), a Burmese 

 insect, is steel-blue, with rather narrow, but very conspicuous, 

 snow-white borders. 



GENUS EPISTEME. 

 Episteme^ Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. i So (1822) ; Moore, 



Lepid. Ceylon, ii. p. 33 (1882). 

 Euscmia, Dalman, Mon. Castnia, p. 26 (1825) ; Westwood, 



in Jardine's Nat. Library, Exot. Moths, p. 88 (1841) ; Bois- 



duval, Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 81 (1874); Butler, Entom. M. 



Mag. xii. p. 166 (1875). 



This genus includes larger species than Agarista, with 

 longer wings, and the costa of the fore-wings rs?nofc archecjj but 

 runs nearly straight to the apex. t)C jftgicturallv it^differs from 

 most of the other genera of \.\iQ^fuWtidce by there " 

 closed cell beyond the upim angle of the 4areoiffigl 



ifBT 



between the two upper discoil nervules at theif base 

 femora ans not tufted, and the tarsi are ffca long, 

 naked. It includes a 

 Moths, averaging about three iiljjv tpans, which are very 

 numerous in Indiajj^^^ In^H^layan Region,-Hvhile a few 

 species are met wit^J^ir north as China, -and as far east as 

 New Guinea. Their usual coleTir isJ}J3|k,,'wifh white, yellow, 

 red, blue, or black markings, anJ.ftieir general appearance is 

 well shown in our Jigures. Ttie type of the genus is E. lectrix 

 (Linn.), the most northerly species of the genus Episteme, and 

 also the longest known. 



EPISTEME LECTRIX. 



(Plate LXXVI. Fig. 3.) 



Noctua lectriX) Linnaeus, Mus. Ludov. Ulricas, p. 389 (1764). 

 Bombyx lectrix^ Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 192, fig. C (1779). 

 Phalana lectrix^ Donovan, Ins. China, pi. 43, fig. 2 (1798). 



