468 



GEOMETEID^E. 



antennae bipectinated, with short branches in both sexes ; hind tibiae 

 of male long, much dilated, and with a ridge along upperside 

 containing a large tuft of hair and ending in a process at extre- 

 mity ; abdomen of male clothed with short thick pile below and at 

 sides. Fore wing with a fovea above the base of vein 1 in both 

 sexes, the membrane in it strongly ridged in male ; vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 5 from near upper angle ; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12, then approaching 10. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from near upper 

 angle ; 7 from before the angle. 



SECT. I. (Euschema). Fore wing of male produced, long, and 

 narrow ; the fovea strongly developed. 



3989. Euschema militaris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 811 ; Cram. Pap. 



Exot. i, pi. 29, fig. B ; C. $ S. no. 3084. 

 Euschema abrupta, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i, p. 70; C. $ S. 



no. 3073. 



Euschema excubitor, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 846 ; C. $ S. no. 3080. 

 Euschema sodalis, Moore, J.A.S. B. Iv, 1886, pt. 2, p. 99 ; C. Sf S. 



no. 3089. 

 Euschema scyllea, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 148. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen golden yellow with purplish bands. 

 Fore wing with the basal half golden yellow, the outer half deep 



210. Euschema mititaris, tf. \. 



purple with its inner edge irregularly sinuous ; two oblique basal 

 purple fasciae, the lower fascia sometimes having a spot detached 

 from it ; two spots on costa near base ; an oblique antemedial series 

 of three spots often conjoined ; outer area with two pale blue macu- 

 late bands, the outer ending at vein 3. Hind wing golden yellow, 

 with a large purple discocellular spot and a spot below the cell ; a 

 postmedial lunulate band excurved between veins 3 and 5; a 

 submarginal series of spots becoming large conjoined lunulate 

 patches at apex. 



The spots on the yellow area are very variable. The form scyllea 

 has the dark markings on the basal half of fore wing almost entirely 



