94 AMESIA SANGUIFLUA. 



the cell formed between the postcostal and great 

 medial veins to the tip of the wings. 



The antennae are rather long, slender, and bipec- 

 tinated to the tip, the pectinations being of nearly- 

 equal length throughout, those at the extremity 

 very slightly longer, so that the antenna? appear at 

 first sight rather clavate. 



Expansion of the wings four inches and a quarter. 

 Head and thorax bluish-black ; antennae of the same 

 colour. Anterior wings black, with a considerable 

 number of small spots scattered over the surface, 

 five of which, placed towards the base, are yellow, 

 the rest white ; the nervures from the middle to the 

 apex are each accompanied by a dark red stripe ; 

 posterior wings black from the base to beyond the 

 middle, with a few white spots encircled with blue, 

 the exterior part brilliant mazarine blue, with a 

 considerable number of white spots : abdomen deep 

 blue, all the segments having a small white spot on 

 each side. On the under side the spots are smaller 

 and more numerous, most of them encircled with 

 blue, the marginal row double ; the nervures with- 

 out the red stripe. 



Mr. Hope's specimen is from Assam ; and we have 

 seen another very fine one in the possession of James 

 Wilson, Esq., which was received from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Serampore. Drury gives Surinam as 

 the locality of his insect ; but the probability that 

 there is some mistake in this, is much greater than 

 the likelihood that it would occur so remotely from 

 what is evidently its native region. 



