LEPIDOPTEBA HETEBOCERA. 13 



lately stout; tarsi cinereous beneath; hind tibiae slightly pilose. 

 Fore wings narrow, purple, partly bright blue. Hind wings limpid ; 

 border, fringe and the line across the end of the discal areolet blue 

 or purple. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



It belongs to the section Paranthrene, 

 a. North China. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



Australasia. 

 jEgebia sesiifobmis. 

 Paranthrene sesiiformis, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Mus. 285. 

 a, b. Java. Presented by the E. I. Company. 



jEgeria phaslefobmis. 

 phasiaeformis, Feld. Sitz. Akad. Wiss. xliii. 26. 

 Amboina. 



jEgeria longipes. 

 longipes, Feld. Sitz. Akad. Wiss. xliii. 26. 

 Amboina. 



iEGEBIA CHAXTBEA. 



chalybea, Wlk. Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 82. 



Borneo. 



jEgeria auriplena. 



Foem. Aurata ; caput argenteum, vertice purpureo-viridi ; antenna 

 nigrce, basi jlavce, subtus flavo punctata; thoracis discus 

 purpureo-cyaneus ; femora cyaneo-purpurea ; tarsi postici 

 purpureo-fasciati ; alee vitrea ; anticce costa apice fasciaque 

 purpureis. 



Female. Brightly gilded, slender. Head silvery white in 

 front; vertex green, varied with purple. Palpi smooth, slender, 

 obliquely ascending, as long as the breadth of the head ; third joint 

 lanceolate, much snorter than the second. Antennae black, slender, 

 smooth, yellow at the base, and with yellow points beneath. Disk 

 of the thorax purplish blue. Pectus with a purplish blue spot 

 between the fore legs and the middle legs. Femora mostly purplish 

 blue on the outer side ; hind tarsi with a purple band on the outer 

 side. Wings limpid. Fore wings with bright blue reflections, dark 



