MIMEFSEMIA. 613 



pectus and legs orange, fore and mid tibia? with black spots, tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen with diffused dorsal black bands. 

 Fore wing chocolate-red, the terminal area irrorated with yellowish 

 scales ; a yellowish-white point at base ; an antemedial triangular 

 spot from subcostal nervure to submedian fold, a medial spot on 

 subcostal nervure, and a spot from above median nervure to sub- 

 median fold ; an oblique spot beyond the cell from vein 8 to below 

 ■i; silvery-blue streaks below basal half of costa and on vein 1, 

 spots in and below middle of cell, and a discoidal bar ; the post- 

 medial line curved from costa to vein 3 where it is strongly retracted ; 

 <jilia yellowish at apex and tornus. Hind wing black-brown, with 

 yellowish patch on basal half of inner area extending to subcostal 

 nervure ; an elliptical patch beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 ; 

 cilia whitish at apex and below vein 2 ; underside of costa orange 

 at base. 



Sab. Chkistma-S I. (Andrews), 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exj)., 6 40, $ 

 44 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Hind wing with the yellowish patch reduced and not 

 extending to inner margin. 



Hah. Queensland, in Coll. Lower. 



145. Mimeusemia peshva. 



Kusemia j^eshwa, Moore, Lep, E. I. C. p. 289, pi. 7a. f. 2 (1878) ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 159 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 



Elack-brown ; palpi yellow at base and extremity of 2nd joint ; 

 frons and vertex of head with yellow stripe ; tegulse at middle and 

 patagia with yellow stripes ; pectus and legs orange ; fore and mid 

 tibiae with brown spots, the tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen 

 with dorsal segmental black bands, the dorsal crests brown. Fore 

 wing with yellow point at base ; a small quadrate antemedial spot 

 in cell ; a medial point on subcostal nervure often present ; an 

 oblique patch from discal fold in cell to submedian fold ; a some- 

 what lunulate patch beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3 ; streaks 

 of diffused silvery-blue scales below basal half of costa and above 

 vein 1 ; a spot in middle of cell, and a discoidal bar ; a postmedial 

 series of spots, in places conjoined into a line, curved from costa to 

 vein 3, then strongly retracted at vein 2 ; some spots near tornus ; 

 cilia white at apex. Hind wing with orange patch on inner area, 

 extending at base to middle of cell and on inner margin to beyond 

 middle ; a quadrate yellow patch beyond the cell between veins 7 

 and 3 or 4 ; cilia white at apex ; underside with the orange in cell 

 conjoined to a yellow spot at junction of veins 7, 8. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Kulu, Sultanpur (GraJiam-Yoimfj), 1(5", 

 Kangra (Hocking), 1 2 '- Sikhim (Buckley), 1 $ type, (Lidderdale) 

 1 c? , 4 $ . Exi^.^ 6 52, 2 62 millim. 



146. Mimeusemia basalis. 



Eicsemia basalis, Wlk. i. 53 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. i. p. 9, pi. 5. f. 2 ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 159 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 30. 



