MILIONIA. 237 



This species is a native of Australia. It expands about 

 three inches. The fore-wings are sub-hyaline, pale lilac, with 

 irregularly arranged dark purple spots ; and the costa and 

 hind margin are of the same colour. The hind-wings resemble 

 the fore-wings, but have fewer markings on the surface, and 

 have a broad marginal band, through the middle of which runs 

 a row of orange spots, some round, others angular, and one at 

 the anal angle nearly semi-circular. The head and body are 

 orange, and the antennae black. 



GENUS MILIONIA. 



ci) Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 364 

 (1854); Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, iii. p. 312 



Antennae slightly pectinated in the male, pilose beneath in 

 both sexes. Palpi short, stout, ascending. Abdomen shorter 

 than the hind-wings, and slightly tufted at the tip in the male. 

 Legs rather stout, hind tibiae with four spurs of moderate 

 length, and dilated, with a fold containing a pencil of hair. 

 Fore-wings oblong, hind margin curved ; much longer than the 

 rounded hind-wings. 



A genus of rather large and very richly- coloured East Indian 

 moths. They are velvety black, or deep purplish blue, with 

 broad bands of orange and crimson. 



MILIONIA BASALIS. 

 (Plate CXLIX., Fig. 3.) 



Milionia basalts, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 365, 



no. 2 (1854). 



This species is a native of Java, and is thus described : 

 " Bright blue. Proboscis and antennae black. Thorax partly 

 brownish-black. Abdomen brownish-black, with a blue band 



