AGAEISTA.— EUSEMIA. 9 



yellow streak ; fringe spotted with white. Head and thorax black, varied with yellow ; 

 abdomen bluish, with orange anal tuft. Wings below shining black, spotted here and there 

 with blue : primaries with a discoidal spot as above, and an irregular macular postmedian 

 band, pale yellow ; internal area brown : secondaries with the yellow streak broader than 

 above. Body below dark brown ; palpi and collar pale yellow ; coxte and femora clothed with 

 orange hair ; tibiae and tarsi spotted with pale yellow ; abdomen with whitish edges to the 

 segments ; anal tuft orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. 

 Australia. 



Agarista donovani. (Plate IV. fig. 7.) 



Agarista donovani, Boisduval, Voy. de V Astrolabe, i. Lip. p. 176. n. 7. 



Wings above black-brown, with a blue shot : primaries with two spots in the cell, and 

 three bifid discal spots in the form of a triangle, sulphur-yellow ; a subapieal bifid or trifid 

 grey spot ; apex white, fringe white-spotted : secondaries crossed by an Irregular sulphur- 

 yellow band, fringe white-spotted. Body black ; head, collar, and teguke varied with yellow ; 

 abdomen banded with yellow ; anus clothed with black and fulvous hairs. Wings below almost 

 as above: pectus brown; legs with orange hairs, tibiae and tarsi white-spotted; venter creamv 

 whitish, terminal segments orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines to 2 inches 2 lines. 



Australia. 



Agarista milete. (Plate V. fig. 6.) 



Phalsena-noctua milete, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xviii. fig. D (1779). 

 Eusemia milete, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 290. n. 686 (1858). 

 Eusemia melite (sic), Walker, Cat. Lep. Eet. i. p. 53. n. 14 (1854). 



Black ; head white-spotted ; collar orange, thorax spotted with pale yellow ; teguke 

 friuged with grey; abdomen with the basal segments white-edged, the anal segments yellow- 

 edged ; anal tuft orange. Wings spotted here and there with metallic steel-colour ; two 

 irregularly arched series of pale yellow spots ; primaries with a spot of the same colour near 

 the end of the cell ; fringe of secondaries white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines to 2 inches 

 2 lines. 



Java (Horsfield). 



This species is decidedly allied to A. leonora and A. donovani, and therefore cannot be 

 retained in the genus Eusemia ; the two genera are, however, very similar in structure, and 

 can be best distinguished by external facies. Dr. Boisduval considers them identical (and I 

 am inclined to agree with him), although they have a very different aspect. 



EUSEMIA, Dalman. 



Eusemia basalis. (Plate V. fig. 2.) 



Eusemia basalis, Waller, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 53. n. 12 (1854). 



Black-brown ; abdomen handed with orange : primaries spotted with steel-blue ; a large 



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