326 NociuiDJi:, 



line. Hiud wing ochreous suffused with dark reddish brown ; cilia 

 ochreous white with a brown line through them ; the under- 

 side ochreous white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot, 

 indistinct curved postmedial line I'rom costa to vein 2 and diffused 

 subterminal line. 



Bab. BuKJiA, L'hyetmyo, 2 $ type, Exp. 3S millim. 



Genus ELIGMA. 



Type. 



Eligma, Hiibii. Verz. p. 161 (1827) narcissus. 



Fanglima, Muore, Cat. Lep. Miis. E. 1. C. ii. p. 297 (1859) narcissus. 



Sttrina, Wlk. Proc-N. H. Soc. Glasgow, i. p. y33 (18(i9) hypsoides. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi upturned, the 2ncl joint reaching to well 

 above vertex ot head, the cird as long as the 2nd, slender, dilated at extremity ; 

 frons smooth, with ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male 

 typically somewhat laminate and almost siniple, tiie basal joint with tuft of 

 hair in front ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests ; 

 fore femora fringed with long hair, the tibiae fringed on both sides with long 

 hair, the raid and hind tibiaj sliglitlj' fringed wit.i hair ; abdomen with small 

 crests on two basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa highly 

 arched near base, then almost straight, tlie apex somewhat produced and acute, 

 the termen nearly straight to vein 3, then oblique, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with rhe termen somewhat 

 excised at discal fold ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to well beyond middle. 



Sect. I. {Stirina.) Antennae of male with fascicles of long cilia. 



A. Fore wing blue-black with broad yellow antemedial band 



and lunulate patch beyond the cell Imtspicta. 



B. Fore wing violaceous brown with curved yellow and 



white fascia below the darker costal area. 

 a. Hind wing with white apical patch. 



a^. Fore wing with the black line from near lower angle 



of cell to inner margin double dwplicata. 



6'. Fore wing with the black line from near lower angle 



of cell to inner margin single hypsoides. 



h. Hind wing without white apical patch malagassica. 



6631. Eligma laetepicta. 



Eligma IcBtepicta, Oberth. Et. Ent. xvii. p. 32, pi. 1. f. 6 (1893). 



Head and thorax blue-black ; pectus and legs orange ; fore legs 

 blue-black, the mid tibise banded orange and black, the tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen orange, the crests at base black, the 

 two following segments with small dorsal and lateral black spots, 

 the anal tuft black above. Fore wing blue-black ; a broad obliquely 

 curved sulphur-yellow band from just below costa to inner juargin 

 before middle, its outer edge somewhat sinuous ; a large Itmulate 

 yellow patch beyond the cell from below costa to vein 3. Hind wing- 

 orange with blue -black terminal band, extending to middle of costa 

 and narrowing to a point at tornus, its inner edge oblique to vein 4, 

 then sinuous ; cilia white at tips towards apex. Underside of fore 



