1860 CATALOGUE OF 



base; third joint elongate-conical, less than half the length of the 

 second. Antennae smooth. Ahdomen ochraceous, hardly extending 

 beyond the hind wings ; a black spot on each segment; apical tuft 

 very small. Fore wings with an ochraceous broad costal black- 

 speckled stripe extending from the base to nearly three-fourths of 

 the length, where it is dilated to the hiud part of the exterior border, 

 including the orbicular mark and the greater part of the reniform 

 mark; these are large and whitish-bordered and of the ground hue, 

 and have behind them a large rhomboidal chalybeous spot, which 

 has an ochraceous line and a broader and more exterior chalybeous 

 line on each side of it; some white suhapical speckles; under side 

 with a red broad irregular marginal band ; orbicular and reniform 

 marks and an elongated patch on the interior border black. Hind 

 wings ochraceous, with a black spot in the disk and an irregular 

 black dentate submarginal band, which is broadest towards the inte- 

 rior border; under side with a red submarginal band joining a lar^e 

 red apical patch. Length of the bodv 10 lines: of the wings 

 28 lines. 



It may be distinguished from P. transient by the spot and by 

 the submarginal band of the hind wings. 



a. North Hindostan. From Mr. Russell's collection. 



Genus EUSEMIA, C. L. H. i. 46. 

 Eusemia viciLLAXs, C. L. H. xxxi. 51. 



a. Celebes. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



Eusemia Lyncea. 



Phalaena G. Lyncea, Or. Pap. Ex. iii. 61, pi. 228, f. B- Eusemia 

 bambucina, C. L. H. vii. 1773. 



Eusemia chrysospila. 

 Mas. Rufescente-nigra ; caput favo bivittatum ; palpi ascend- 

 entes, angulati, subtus Jiavi ; thorax vittis tribus maculaque 

 flayis ; pectus ochraceum ; abdomen ochracewn, basi fasciisgue 

 tribus nigris ; oice anticce Uteris basalibus cyajieis, macu/is 

 sex auratisfere hyalinis ; postica maculis duabus auratis fere 

 hyalinis. 



Male. Reddish black. Head with two pale yellow stripes. 

 Palpi pale yellow beneath, except at the lips; second joint erect; 



