LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 427 



3. Laurion gemina. 



Cyanea ; prothorax coccineo-hirtvs ; alee nujro-fuscce ; anticce fas 

 lata obliqua recta lineari flava ; posticce subtus nigro-cyan 



scia 

 cyancw. 



Blue. Thorax brownish blue. Prothorax clothed with crim- 

 son hairs. Palpi black. Proboscis piceous. Wings blackish brown. 

 Fore wings with an oblique straight broad linear yellow band which 

 ends by the tips of the hind wings. Hind wings beneath blackish 

 blue. Length of the body 4 — 5 lines ; of the wings 12 — 14 lines. 



a. Hong Kong. Presented by Capt. Champion. 



b. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



c. North China. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



d. East Indies. From the Rev. J. Stain forth's collection. 

 e,/. Silhet. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



g. North India. From Mr. L. James' collection. 

 h. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



Genus 53. ETERUSIA. 



Fcem. Antennae graciles, vix uniserratae. Lingua spiralis, elon- 

 gata. Palpi breves. Abdomen terebra parva exserta instructum. 

 Alas anticae angustae, integrae, vena antica apicali trifurcata, vena 

 media etiam trifurcata, furcis fere rectis ; posticae breviores, integrae, 

 areola elongata, apiceque venas fere rectas emittente. 



Eterusia, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xviii. 445 ; Westw. Ar- 

 cana Ent. 18. 

 Papilio, p., Linn. 

 Acraea, p., Godart. 



Body rather short and stout, nearly linear and cylindrical. 

 Head prominent and convex in front. Palpi very much shorter 

 than the head ; third joint conical, very small. Antennae nearly as 

 long as the body, thickly and deeply pectinated in the male, mi- 

 nutely pectinated and clavate at the tip in the female. Abdomen 

 extending as far as the hind wings. Legs rather slender; hind 

 tibiae with two minute apical spurs. Wings long and narrow. Fore 

 wings with four superior and four inferior veins ; second superior 

 vein trifurcate ; first and second inferior veins united for some space 

 from the discal areolet. 



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