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above veins 3, 4, 5, and 6, and two streaks on costa ; a postniedial 

 blue mark on vein 1 often present ; a curved subterminal series of 

 small M^hite spots, the spot above vein 4 absent and often those 

 towards toruus. Hind wing with postmedial white spots above 

 veins G, 3, and 2, and orange-red spots on each side of vein 1 

 towards torn us. 



Ab. 1. afflicta. Fore wing with the postmedial spots reduced in 

 size. 



Ab. 2. sectmotis. Fore wing with the medial patches reduced in 

 size. 



Ab. 3. contracta. Fore wing with both medial and postmedial 

 markings reduced. 



Ab. 4. simplex. Fore wing with the medial band narrow, the 

 postmedial spots absent. 



Ab. 5. Abdomen with dorsal orange tuft on basal segment ; 

 hind wing with some orange markings on basal area. — Kwei-chow. 

 Ab. G. The spots on thorax and the medial and postmedial spots 

 on fore wing whitish. — Malabar. 



Hab. China, Kwei-chow, 1 $ , Omei-shan, 2 cS , Moupin {Krickel- 

 dorf)^ 1 $ ; Kashmie, Eajaori (Leech), 1 6 ; Kfltj, 8ultanpore 

 {G. Young), 1 c? ; Punjab, Mussoorie, 2 (^ , 3 $ , types contracta and 

 sectinotis; Nepal (Harcliviche), 1 S ; Cachar, 1c?,1$ ; Bombay, 

 Matheran (Leith), 1 $ ; Kanaka (Ward), 2 c? , type simplex-^ 

 Malabar, 1 cT, -5 $ ; Nilgiris {Hampson), 3 $ ; Travancore, 

 Trevandrum (Fergusson), 1 S ; Burma, Moulmein (Olerk), 1 $, 

 Toungoo (De Niceville), 2 c? , Tenasserim, Dawnat ^iWs, {De Nice- 

 ville), 2 c^ , 2 $ . Exj). 66-80 millim. Type t c^ bellatrix in Mus. 

 Oxon. 



*10. Eusemia sumbana. (Plate LI. fig. 1.) 



Episteme sumhana, Roths. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 310 (1897). 



S . Black ; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, and sides of frons above 

 with white points ; tegulee and shoulders with pale yellow spots ; 

 abdomen with lateral spots, and ventral orange-red bands on last 

 three segments. Fore wing with oblique subbasal and antemedial 

 whitish-blue much-interrupted lines ; quadrate pale yellow patches 

 in end of cell and below base of vein 2, and a point above base of 

 vein 2 ; n, series of five small spots just beyond the cell ; a curved 

 series of seven small white subterminal spots, the three towards 

 costa elongate. Hind wing with oblique series of six small 

 elongate white spots just beyond the cell, and two orange-red 

 spots above tornus ; the basal half of wing with a reddish tinge 

 seen through the black. 



Hah, SuMBA {Everett), type f S in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 74 millim. 



11. Eusemia nigripennis. 



Eusemia nigripennis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 140 (1875); Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. li. p. 34, pi. 94. f. 3; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 152': Kirbv' 

 Cat. Het. p. 26. 



