22 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera 



orange ; terminal joint purple. Antennae purple-black, densely 

 clothed along one side with long purple-black scales. Anterior 

 wings brilliant coppery red, with the cilia greyish. Posterior 

 wings reddish orange, with grey cilia. Thorax coppery red. 

 Abdomen blue-black, with a slender whitish belt nearly in the 

 middle, Legs black spotted with white ; the hind legs with the 

 spines replaced by thick tufts of black scales* ; the tarsi also much 

 thickened with black scales. 



" Larva dirty brown ; head dark reddish brown ; second segment 

 black. It feeds in the tops of Clerodendron, drawing together the 

 leaves with a white web. 



" The perfect insects made their appearance on the 27th July, 

 1856 ; the insect, when at rest, erects its beautifully plumed hind 

 legs above its back, behind the head, and keeps constantly vibrating 

 its incrassated antenna. 



" Collected near Calcutta by Mr. Atkinson." 



[PL vi., fig. 8.] 

 ignipicta, BtL, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 5934. 



[Capite thorace et antennis purpureis. Alis anticis rubidis, sub- 

 purpurascentibus, basi et margine costali peranguste purpureo, 

 margine dorsali ante angulam analem latiore purpureo ; ciliis 

 fuscis. Alis posticis brunneis ; ciliis griseo-fuscis. Abdomine et 

 tibiis purpureis. Wlsm.] 



" Purplish black; primaries with a very broad carmine subcostal 

 streak from near the base to the outer margin, where it meets a 

 narrow stripe of the same colour, which runs round the margin 

 half-way to the base ; secondaries dark bronzy brown ; head 

 shining, smooth, plumbageous ; thorax showing fiery cupreous 

 points in certain lights ; abdomen with extremely narrow orange 

 posterior margins to the segments ; under surface bronzy brown ; 

 primaries cupreous towards the base, purplish towards the apex, 

 and with purple costal margin ; pectus, as seen between the large 

 coxse, brilliant opaline ; legs slightly opaline along the centre of the 

 inferior margins; the long setose antennas, and the spines and 

 bristles upon the legs, black ; expanse of wings, 8 lines (= 17 mm.) 



"Tokei (Fenton). 



"A very beautiful little species of this singular 

 genus." 



Since this paper was written Mr. H. Druce has kindly 



* See ante, p. 5. 



