612 AGAKISTID^. 



142. Mimeusemia postica. 



JEgocera postica, Wlk. Journ.Linn. Soc. vi. p. 86 (1862) ; Kirby. Cat. Het, 



p. 37. 

 Mimeusemia tara, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. i. p. 167, pi. 6. f. 11 (1892). 



Head and thorax chocolate-red : palpi whitish at tips ; fron& 

 except at sides, vertex of head, and a stripe on tegulae and patagia 

 pale yellow ; pectus and legs orange, the tarsi mostly black : 

 abdomen orange, with triangular dorsal black patch at base ; male 

 with black patch on terminal segment, female with sublateral and 

 anal spots. Fore wing chocolate-red ; an antemedial pale yellow 

 spot in the cell ; a medial spot in and below the cell ; a reniform 

 patch beyond the cell, between veins 7 and 8 ; silvery-blue scales 

 below basal part of costa and on vein 1 ; antemedial points in and 

 below cell ; a discoid al bar and spot below it on inner margin ; the 

 irregularly interrupted postmedial line angled inwards to below 

 end of cell, then excurved again ; some irroration on term en ; cilia 

 white at apex. Hind wing black ; the basal area from costa before 

 middle to tornus orange with curved outer edge ; a somewhat 

 conical pale yellow spot beyond the cell. 



Hob. Singapore (Bidley), 1 S ', Boeneo, 1 $ , Sarawak (TfaZZace), 

 1 6 type t postica and tara in Mus. Oxon. Exp.^ ^ 38, $ 42 

 millim. 



143. Mimeusemia peracana. 



Mimeusemia 'perukana, Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 50, pi. xiv. f. 19 (1896). 



5 . Head and thorax deep chocolate-red ; palpi at base and 

 extremity of 2nd joint white ; a white stripe on frons and vertex of 

 head ; a dorsal white stripe on teguise and thorax; patagia with white 

 stripes ; pectus and legs orange, fore and mid tibiae with black 

 spots, the tarsi banded with black; abdomen orange, dorsally 

 suffused with black towards base and with segmental blackish 

 bands. Fore wing deep chocolate-red ; an oblique antemedial white 

 patch from above subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; obliquely 

 placed conjoined medial spots from above subcostal nervure to 

 above vein 1, and a somewhat lunulate patch beyond the cell 

 between veins 8 and 3 : some silvery-blue scales near base ; ante- 

 medial spots in and below cell and on vein 1 ; a discoidal bar ; the 

 postmedial line sinuous from costa to vein 3, then strongly retracted ;. 

 the termen irrorated with silvery blue ; cilia white at apex. Hind 

 wing black-brown, with a yellowish-white patch on inner area from 

 base to beyond middle extending to subcostal nervure near base ; 

 cilia white ; underside with a white spot in fork of veins 7, 8. 



Hah. Peeak ; Boexeo, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 9 . Ea^p. 50 millim, 



144. Mimeusemia econia. 



Mimeusemia econia, Hmpsn. Mon. Christmas I. p. 64, pi. ix. f. 7 (1900). 

 Head and thorax black ; palpi at base and extremity of 2nd 

 joint, sides of frons, and vertex of head yellowish white ; teguise and 

 thorax with dorsal and patagia with lateral yellowish stripes ; 



