EUSEMIA. 



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7. Eusemia nipalensis. 



Eusemia maculatrix, Westw. Oab. Or. Ent. p. 67, pi. 33. f. 1 (1848), nea 



Westw. 1841 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 153. 

 Eusemia nipalensis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 140 (1875) ; Kirby, Oat. 



Het. p. 27. 

 Eusemia dives, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. p. 18, pi. 82. f. 4 (1881); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 27. 

 Eusemia westwoodi, Kirby, Allen's Nat. Libr. iii. p. 65 (1897). 



Black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, and basal 

 joint of antennae with white points ; a white rim behind eyes ; 

 tegulcD with yellow spots ; patagia with oblique stripes ; coxae and 

 femora with orange hair ; abdomen orange, with dorsal black bands 

 and lateral and ventral spots, the extremity black. Fore wing with 

 two blue spots below base of costa and two above vein 1 ; a large 

 yellow spot in middle of cell and another below base of vein 2 ; 

 three small conjoined spots beyond upper angle of cell and three 

 beyond lower angle ; a curved subterminal series of dentate white 

 spots, the spot above vein 2 sometimes absent. Hind wing orange; 

 the base black ; the costal area black, emitting a triangular spot at 

 upper angle of cell ; a band composed of two conjoined spots from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin, connected by streaks on veins 1 

 and 2 with the terminal band which expands very widely on apical 

 area down to vein 4 and narrows to a point at tornus ; a white 

 subapical spot often with others above and below it, and others 

 above veins 2 and 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial and postmedial spots white. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing scarlet. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas, 1 $ ; Nepal {Hardivicke), 2 cS type ; 

 SiKHiM (Fotheringham), 4 (5 , 1 $ , type dives ; Assam, Shillong 

 (Rcnvlings), 1 d , ab.l, Silhet, 2 (S ; Burma, Tenasserim, Thoungyen 

 Yalley (Bingham), 1 c? . J^a^ja. 74-90 millim. Type f (S iii Mus, 

 Oxon. 



8. Eusemia lectrix. 



Nocttia lectrix, Linn. Mus. Ulr. p. 389 (1764) ; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 

 pi. 192, ; Don. Ins. China, pi. 43. f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 26. 



Black ; Ist and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, and basal joint 

 of antennae with white points ; tegulae with pale yellow spots ; 

 patagia with yellow patches ; a white rim behind eyes ; fore coxae 

 orange in front ; abdomen banded with orange. Fore wing with 

 two pale blue spots below base of costa and two on vein 1 ; a small 

 yellow antemedial spot in cell ; a quadrate spot in middle of cell, 

 with two short streaks above it, and a quadrate spot below base of 

 vein 2 ; three small spots beyond upper angle of cell, the upper 

 one linear, and two beyond lower angle ; a curved subterminal 

 series of small white spots, the spot above vein 2 often absent. 

 Hind wing with orange antemedial band, not reaching costa and 

 enclosing an elliptical black spot at upper angle of cell, where it is 

 confluent with a double dentate spot beyond the cell ; two spots 



