470 GEOMETRID &. 
3993. Euschema andamana, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 599; Waterh. 
Aid, i, pl. xi; C. § S. no. 3074. 
Deep purple; the underside of head, thorax, and abdomen golden 
yellow. Fore wing with very broad oblique antemedial golden- 
yellow band with somewhat irregular edges and not quite reaching 
costa or inner margin; a large pale blue patch beyond cell with 
indistinct spots below it. Hind wing uniform purple, or in some 
specimens with a yellow patch on middle of costa and aspot beyond 
cell. Underside of both wings with the large cell-spots and 
curved postmedial bands traceable. 
Hab. Andamans. Hap, 84 millim. 
3994, Euschema minervaria, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 190. 
Hazis pugnataria, Gwen. Phal. ii, p. 194. 
Euschema horsfieldii, Moore, Lep. E. I. Co. p. 334, pl. 8 a, fig. 7 ; 
C. § S. no. 3081. 
Euschema patula, Wik. Cat. xxxi, p. 175. : 
@. Head and thorax blue-grey, with deep purple bands; abdo- 
men golden yellow, with purplish bands. Fore wing somewhat 
broad and round; blue-grey with two basal purple fasciz, a curved 
antemedial band with two elongate spots on it below cell; a large 
discocellular patch; an irregularly sinuous postmedial band; a 
marginal series of blotches conjoined into a patch at apex; the 
inner area with more or less yellow on its outer half. Hind wing 
golden yellow, with blue-grey on basal costal area; a large disco- 
cellular purple patch and small spot below cell ; a postmedial series 
of lunulate spots and another series of rounded spots just inside 
the margin, both these series being sometimes obsolescent towards 
inner margin. 
Hab. EK. Pegu; Tenasserim; Tavoy; Cambodia; Java. Exp. 
90 millim. 
3995. Euschema aurilimbata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 846; C. & S. 
no. 3076. 
3. Head yellow with dark bands; thorax blue with deep 
purple bands; abdomen golden yellow with purplish bands, the 
base greyish. Fore wing pale metallic blue with deep purple 
markings, a8 in minervaria. Hind wing pale metallic blue; the 
inner and outer areas golden yellow, a prominent sinuous post- 
medial band excurved at middle being developed. 
Hab. Tenasserim; Tavoy; Mergui. Hvp. 90 millim. 
3996. Euschema palmyra, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v, p. 159, pl. 36, 
fio. 1; C1 § S. no. 3086. 
Kuschema transversa, Wik. Cat. ii, p. 407; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 
pl. 189, figs. 3, 3 a larva); C. & S. no. 3091. 
Euschema nelera, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 141. 
Differs from aurilimbata in the abdomen being but slightly 
yellow at extremity; wings paler blue; hind wing without any 
yellow, or in the form nelera from the Bombay Presidency usually 
with slight traces of yellow on outer margin near anal angle. 
