EPISTEME. 63 



Eusemia lectrix, Boisduval, Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 84 (1874). 



This Moth, which is common in China, expands about three 

 inches. The fore-wings are black, with the base spotted with 

 white and bluish, and are crossed by two rows of large yellow 

 spots, the first broadest and connected so as to form a band, 

 the second composed of a large spot towards the costa, a 

 smaller one below, divided by a nervure, and sometimes a 

 small one just above the hinder angle ; there is also a sub- 

 marginal row of white spots. The hind-wings are black, with 

 the basal half red, crossed by an irregular macular band ; 

 there is also a sub-marginal row of white spots. The thorax is 

 black, with an oblong yellow spot on each side ; and the ab- 

 domen is black, with broad transverse black bands. 



EPISTEME IRENEA. 



Eusemia irenea, Boisduval, Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 84 (1874). 

 Eusemia communts, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4) xv. p. 140, pi. 

 13, fig. i (1875). 



This species is of the size of E. lectrix. The fore-wings are 

 black, with three narrow transverse white bands, the first com- 

 posed of two spots, the second slightly interrupted towards the 

 costa and the hinder angle, and the third, which is sub-mar- 

 ginal, is macular, and composed of six small elongated white 

 spots. The hind-wings are dull red, crossed by a transverse 

 black band, widely interrupted on its upper part. The black 

 border is sinuous, and is marked with a row of small white spots. 

 The base of the hind-wings is black ; and the thorax is black, 

 spotted with white. The abdomen is black, belted with yel- 

 low. The type was supposed to have come from Sumatra. 

 E. communis (Butler), which was described about the same 

 time as E. irenea, and which agrees with BoisduvaPs description 

 of the latter, given above, is found in Silhet. I notice this 

 species here, because the next has been mistaken for it. 



