64 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



EPISTEME MACULATRIX. 

 (Plate LXXVI. Fig. 2.) 



Eusemia maculatrix^ Westwood, in Jardine's Nat. Library, 



Exot. Moths, p. 88, pi. ii. fig. 3 (1841). 

 Eusemia irenea, Hampson (nee Boisd.), Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, 



ii. p. 153 (1894). 



For reasons given below, we quote Westwood's original 

 description in full. 



" Expansion of the wings nearly three and a half inches ; 

 colour of the anterior pair intense black, with some slight 

 patches of blue scales at the base ; this is succeeded by a small 

 white triangular patch, then two large sub-oval one?, then 

 three placed wider apart, and between these and the apex are 

 five small oval spots. Hind-wings bright orange, black at the 

 base, with a black costal spot, and a large black discoidal one 

 extending to the anal angle, and posteriorly emitting two 

 narrow longitudinal bars, which are connected with the very 

 broad and irregular black margin ; in the latter are two white 

 spots, that nearest the fore-wings being largest. The head and 

 thorax are black, the shoulders pale yellow ; abdomen orange, 

 with black transverse stripes. In the specimen here figured, 

 the abdomen is terminated by two broad triargulir, horny 

 lobes, externally covered with orange-coloured hairs. The 

 sides of the thorax beneath are black, with an orange-coloured 

 stripe down the breast ; the belly is also orange with black 

 spots. The legs are long and black. 



" The specimen we have here the pleasure of figuring is 

 unique. It was recently brought from the Assam territories, 

 and is one of the numerous rarities in the Rev. F. W. Hope's 

 collection." 



This species has been the occasion of an extraordinary 

 series of errors, somewhat resembling the confusion which has 



