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312 GEOMETRIES. 



3554. Genusa bigutta, IF/A;. Cat. ir, p. 818; C. 8> S. no. 893. 

 Genusa destituta, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 341. 



Yellowish white; thorax and abdomen dorsally spotted with black. 



Fore wing with black 

 spot at base; very indis- 

 tinct oblique ante- and 

 postmedial double series 

 of pale fuscous blotches 

 and traces of a submar- 

 ginal series. Hind wing 

 with traces of postmedial 

 Fig. 147. Genusa bigutta, <$. }. and submarginal macu- 



late bands. 



Hob. Calcutta; Moulmein; Malacca; Cambodia; Sumatra. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus MILIONIA. 



Milionia, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 364 (1854). 



Epidesma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 176 (? 1818), non descr. 



Type, M. glauca, Cram. 



Range. China ; N.E. India ; Burma ; the Malayan subregion ; 

 New Guinea and neighbouring groups. 



Palpi porrect, reaching just beyond the frons, the 2nd joint 

 stout and thickly scaled, the 3rd porrect; antennae of male 

 thickened by appressed serrations and minutely ciliated ; abdomen 

 of male hairy below, the claspers large ; hind tibiae dilated with a 

 fold containing a tuft of long hair. Pore wing with the costa 

 straight ; the outer margin obliquely rounded ; vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 absent; 11 free. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 7 from before upper angle. 



3555. Milionia glauca, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, pi. 368, fig. D ; C. $ S. 



no. 3094. 

 Epidesma pyrrho, Hiibn. Verz. p. 176. 



Black, shot with blue, which is most brilliant at base of hind 

 wing. Fore wing with a broad orange band from costa beyond 

 middle to outer angle, towards which it becomes crimson. 



Some specimens have some crimson on fore wing near base 

 below median nervure. 



Hob. Tenasserim ; Amboina ; Ceram. Exp. 70 millim. 



3556. Milionia pulchrinervis, Feld. Reis. JVov. pi. 104, fig. 6: (?.<$ S. 



no. 3096. 

 Miiionia lativitta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 570 ; C. $ S. no. 3095. 



Differs from ylauca in not being shot with blue, but the veins 

 of both wings on upper and under sides brilliant metallic blue to 

 tin' middle. Fore wing with the band wider, more oblique, and 

 orange throughout. 



Ifab. Sikhini : Sylhet. Exp. 70 millim. 



