240 Mr. A. G. Butler on neio Lepidoptera 



XXVIII. — Descriptions of neiv Species of Lepidopera from 

 the Solomon Islands, collected ly C. M. Woodford, Esq, 

 By A. G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



Geometeites. 



Euschemidae. 



1. Euschema pilosa, sp. n.* 



Nearest to E. tyrianthina in pattern, but with the orange 

 and grey body of E. fenestrata and allies : wings deep purple, 

 banded and spotted with black ; the veins pale : primaries 

 of male crossed by two paler purplish bands, enclosing an 

 abbreviated streak of the same colour ; these bands are formed 

 much as in E. cyane of Cramer, but the outer band is further 

 from the margin : secondaries pale towards the base and with 

 a narrow paler oblique band, followed by a small spot, before 

 the middle ; in the female all these markings are white instead 

 of purplish ; an irregular series of submarginal orange 

 crescents somewhat as in E. tyrianthina or E. cyane, but 

 more or less obliterated and further from the margin ; as in 

 the allied species, these crescents are broader in the female 

 than in the male. Front of thorax purplish black; the head 

 (excepting an orange semicircle round each eye) and antennse 

 dark thrown ; in the female, however, the face is whitish and 

 the vertex of head and the antennee are pale brown ; the collar 

 and tegulse are sprinkled with brown hairs, and the thorax is 

 whity brown ; the back part of the thorax in the male is 

 darker and clothed with brown and grey hair : abdomen pale 

 brown, barred with reddish, with the sides and anal extremity 

 woolly and bright dark orange in the male ; the dorsal sur- 

 face of the last two segments often ornamented with large 

 blue-black spots; in the female the sides and anal extremity 

 are smooth and bright ochreous. On the under surface the 

 markings are broader and better defined and the veins 

 whiter ; pectus of male blackish, excepting a few orange 

 hair-scales at the sides ; legs purplish, slightly sprinkled 

 with white and ochreous scales ; venter woolly, deep bright 

 orange ; pectus and legs of female dust-grey ; venter of the 

 same colour, but with yellow edges to the segments and with 

 orange anus. Expanse of wings 92 millim. 

 Five males and one female. Shortland Island. 



» Belongs to the section to which the name Heleona has been given. 



