152 



AGAEISTID^l. 



1560. Eusemia nigripennis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv, 1875, p. 140 • 



Moore, Lep. Ceijl. ii, pi. 94, fig. 3 j C.fy S. no. 325. 



Collar and tegulse yellow-spotted ; abdomen with ventral yellow 

 bands. Pore wing with a medial yellow band of two irregularly 

 superposed spots ; a maculate postmedial band from below the 

 costa to vein 3, broken at vein 5 ; a submarginal series of six small 

 white spots. Hind wing black, with four small white submarginal 

 spots, and hardly a trace of the orange spots near anal angle. 



Hah. Ceylon. Exp. 80 millim. 



1561. Eusemia adulatrix, Koll HihgeVs KascJimir, iv, p. 464, pi. 20, 



tig. 1 ; C.8fS. no. 308. 

 Eusemia bellatrix, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 67 ; C. fy S. no. 315. 

 Eusemia afflicta, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xii, 1875, p. 118 ; C. § S. 



no. 309. 

 Eusemia sectinotis, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xii, 1875, p. 117 ; C. fy S. 



no. 331. 

 Eusemia contracta, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xii, 1875, p. 117 ; C. fy S. 



no. 318. 

 Eusemia simplex, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xii, 1875, p. 118 ; C. fy S. 



no. 333. 



The submarginal series of white spots on both wings larger than 

 in nigripennis ; the spots near anal angle of hind wing small and 

 red in N.-Indian, larger and orange in S.-Indian, specimens ; ab- 

 domen banded orange and black ; the basal blue spots of the fore 

 wing very variable in size, as also are the medial and postmedial 

 spots. 



Eig. 99.— Eusemia adulatrix, J . \. 



In the form afflicta the postmedial spots are reduced in size ; 

 in sectinotis the medial spots, and in contracta both medial and post- 

 medial are reduced ; in simplex the medial spots are narrow and 

 regularly disposed ; these variations occurring irrespective of 

 locality. 



Bab. The whole of India and Burma. Exp. 80 millim. 



