468 GEOMETRID A. 
antenne bipectinated, with short branches in both sexes ; hind tibize 
of male long, much dilated, and with a ridge along upperside 
containing a large tuft of hair and ending in a process at extre- 
mity ; abdomen of male clothed with short thick pile below and at 
sides. Fore wing with a fovea above the base of vein 1 in both 
sexes, the membrane in it strongly ridged in male; vein 3 from 
before angle of cell; 5 from near upper angle; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 
stalked; 11 anastomosing with 12, then approaching 10. Hind 
wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from near upper 
angle; 7 from before the angle. | 
Sect. I. (Huschema). Fore wing of male produced, long, and 
narrow ; the fovea strongly developed. 
3989. Euschema militaris, Zinn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 811; Cram. Pap. 
Exot. i, pl. 29, fig. B; C. §& S. no, 8084. 
Euschema abrupta, Wik. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i, p. 70; C. & S. 
no. 3073. 
Euschema excubitor, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 846; C. §& S. no, 3080. 
Euschema sodalis, Moore, J. A. S. B. lv, 1886, pt. 2, p. 99; C.& S. 
no. 3089. 
Euschema scyllea, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 148. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen golden yellow with purplish bands. 
Fore wing with the basal half golden yellow, the outer half deep 
Fig. 210.—Huschema militaris, 3. 3. 
purple with its inner edge irregularly sinuous ; two oblique basal 
purple fasciz, the lower fascia sometimes having a spot detached 
from it; two spots on costa near base ; an oblique antemedial series 
of three spots often conjoined ; outer area with two pale biue macu- 
late bands, the outer ending at vein 38. Hind wing golden yellow, 
with a large purple discocellular spot and a spot below the cell; a 
postmedial lunulate band excurved between veins 3 and 5; a 
submarginal series of spots becoming large conjoined lunulate 
patches at apex. : | 
The spots on the yellow area are very variable. The form seyllea 
has the dark markings on the basal half of fore wing almost entirely 
