470 GEOMETEID^:. 



3993. Euschema andamana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 599 ; WaterJi. 



Aid, i, pi. xi ; C. 8f S. no. 3074. 



Deep purple ; the underside of head, thorax, and abdomen golden 

 yellow. Tore wing with very broad oblique antemedial golden- 

 yellow band with somewhat irregular edges and not quite reaching 

 costa or inner margin ; a large pale blue patch beyond cell with 

 indistinct spots below it. Hind wing uniform purple, or in some 

 specimens with a yellow patch on middle of costa and a spot beyond 

 cell. Underside of both wings with the large cell-spots and 

 curved postmedial bands traceable. 



Hob. Andamans. Exp. 84 millim. 



3994. Enschema minervaria, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 190. 

 Hazis pugnataria, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 194. 



Euschema horsfieldii, Moore, Lep. E. 1. Co. p. 334, pi. 8 a, fig. 7 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 3081. 

 Euschema patula, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 175. . 



2 . Head and thorax blue-grey, with deep purple bands ; abdo- 

 men golden yellow, with purplish bands. Fore wing somewhat 

 broad and round ; blue-grey with two basal purple fasciae, a curved 

 antemedial band with two elongate spots on it below cell ; a large 

 discocellular patch ; an irregularly sinuous postmedial band ; a 

 marginal series of blotches conjoined into a patch at apex; the 

 inner area with more or less yellow on its outer half. Hind wing 

 golden yellow, with blue-grey on basal costal area ; a large disco- 

 cellular purple patch and small spot below cell ; a postmedial series 

 of lunulate spots and another series of rounded spots just inside 

 the margin, both these series being sometimes obsolescent towards 

 inner margin. 



Hab. E. Pegu ; Tenasserim ; Tavoy ; Cambodia : Java. Exp. 

 90 millira. 



3995. Euschema aurilimbata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 846 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3070. 



c? . Head yellow with dark bands ; thorax blue with deep 

 purple bands ; abdomen golden yellow with purplish bands, the 

 base greyish. Fore wing pale metallic blue with deep purple 

 markings, as in minervaria. Hind wing pale metallic blue ; the 

 inner and outer areas golden yellow, a prominent sinuous post- 

 medial band excurved at middle being developed. 



Hab. Tenasserim; Tavoy; Mergui. Exp. 90 millim. 



3996. Euschema palmyra, stall, Cram. Pap. Exot. v, p. 159, pi. 36, 



fig. 1 ; G & no- 3086. 

 Eusehema transversa, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 407; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 189, figs. 3, 3 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 3091. 

 Euschema nelera, Swirih. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 141. 

 Differs from aurilimbata in the abdomen being but slightly 

 yellow at extremity ; wings paler blue ; hind wing without any 

 yellow, or in the form tulera from the Bombay Presidency usually 

 with slight traces of yellow on outer margin near anal angle. 



