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ferent lights the blue appears to one person to be a vivid 

 green, to another of a lazulite blue. I have had drawings 

 made by different persons ; the first contends that the colour 

 is green, the second that it is blue ; in short, both are right; 

 all depends on the situation in which the individual views the 

 specimens." 



GENUS AMESIA. 



Amcsia, Westwood, in Jardme's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 93 

 (1841); Hampson, Faun. Brit. India, Moths, i. p. 272 

 (1892). 



This genus is closely allied to Erasmia, but the antennae 

 are longer and more slender, and shortly bi-pectinated. The 

 fore-wings are broader and more oblong, the costa being much 

 less arched, and the nervures are very strongly incrassated , 

 the hind-wings are also longer, and less rounded. As is likewise 

 the case in Erasmia, the uppermost nervule running from the 

 extremity of the lower discoidal cell on the fore-wings throws off 

 two branches considerably beyond the cell. The genus is con- 

 fined to the Indo-Malayan Region, and several closely allied 

 species are met with in Northern India. 



AMESIA SANGUIFLUA. 



(Plate LXXVIIL Fig. 3.) 



Noctua sanguifluci) Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 20, figs, i, 2 



(1773). 



Amesia sanguiflua^ Westwood, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 



Moths, p. 93, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1841); Hampson, Faun. Brit. 



India, Moths, i. p. 272, fig. 180 (1892). 

 Cydosia sanguiflua, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. 



p. 455, no. i (1854). 



This Moth measures four inches and upwards in expanse, 

 and is found in Northern India and Burma, though it was 



