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AGARISTID^. 



32. Scrobigera hesperioides. 



Eusemia hesperioides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 86 (1862); Swiuh. 



Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 162, pi. 5. f. 3 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. 

 Eusemia tricolor, But!. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 142 (1875). 

 Eusemia pulchra, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 143, pi. 13. f. 4 (1875); 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 1.50 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. 

 Episteme standing eri, Oberth. Et. Ent. xix. p. 22, pi. 3. f. 15 (1894). 



S . Black ; head, tegulae, pectus, and legs orange ; abdomen 

 orange, dorsally black at base and extremity and with slight dorsal 

 black points ; anal tuft orange at tips. Fore wing with the basal 

 half of costal edge orange ; an oblique pale yellow band from 

 middle of subcostal nervure to vein 1 near tornus ; cilia white at 

 apex. Hind wing black-brown ; a medial orange-red band ex- 

 panding widely to inner margin ; the discal fold brown with a 

 small orange spot above it ; cilia white at apex or white-tipped 

 throughout. 



2 . Head and tegulae black ; palpi orange ; sides of frons and a 

 ring round neck pale yellow ; hind wing with the cilia sometimes 

 wholly white. 



Ab. 1. pulchra. Hind wing with the orange-red band much 

 broader. 



Bab. Borneo, Sandakan (Prt/er), 1 $ , Kina Balu, Sarawak 

 ( Wallace, Brooke, Low, Everett, Bartlett), 5 c? , 4 $ , type and types 

 tricolor and palchra, type f $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp., S 62, 

 5 72 millim. 



The type of pulchra is labelled '' Murrut," India, in Berar, but 

 this is certainly wrong, and there were specimens from Sarawak in 

 the same collection. 



33. Scrobigera vacillans. (Plate LI. fig. 17.) 



Eusemia vacillans, Wlk. xxxi. 51 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. 

 Euse7nia eudamoides, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xii. p. 124 (1875) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 28. 



S . Black ; palpi except 3rd joint, frons, and tegulae orange ; 

 antennae with orange rings ; legs and abdomen orange, the latter 

 with ill-defined black dorsal bands. Pore wing with the costal edge 

 orange on basal area ; silvery-blue streaks below the costa and on 

 vein 1, and oblique bars in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; an 

 oblique pale yellow bar across end of cell ; a small spot above base 

 of vein 2 and large spot below it ; an oblique bar beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 3 with dentate outer edge; ciha white at apex. 

 Hind wing with diffused orange medial band expanding in discal 

 fold and on inner margin ; cilia white at apex. 



2 . Frons and tegulae black ; neck with white ring ; antennae 

 irrorated with white scales ; abdomen black ; fore wing without 

 orange on costa ; hind wing without the orange band ; the cilia 

 wholly white. 



Hah. Celebes ( Wallace), 1 J , 1 $ type eudamoides, Exp., 

 (S 64, 2 68 millim. Type t $ vacillans in Mus. Oxon. 



