AGARISTA— EUSEMIA. 
9 
yellow streak ; fringe spotted with white. Head and thorax blacky varied with yellow ; 
abdomen bluish, with orange anal tuft. Wings below shining black, spotted here and there 
with blue : primaries with a discoidal spot as above, and an irregular macular postmedian 
band, pale yellow ; internal area brown : secondaries with the yellow streak broader than 
above. Body below dark brown ; palpi and collar pale yellow ; coxse and femora clothed with 
orange hair ; tibite and tarsi spotted with pale yellow ; abdomen with whitish edges to the 
segments; anal tuft orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. 
Australia. 
Agarista doaovani. (Plate IV. fig. 7.) 
Agarista donovani, Boisduval, Voy. de V Astrolabe, i. Lep. p. 176. n. 7. 
Wings above black-brown, with a blue shot : primaries with two spots in the cell, and 
three bifid discal spots in the form of a triangle, sulphur-yellow ; a subapical bifid or trifid 
grey spot ; apex white, fringe white-spotted : secondaries crossed by an iri'egular sulphur- 
yellow band, fringe white-spotted. Body black ; head, collar, and tegulse varied with yellow ; 
abdomen banded with yellow ; anus clothed with black and fulvous hairs. Wings below almost 
as above : pectus brown ; legs with orange hairs, tibise and tarsi white-spotted ; venter creamy 
whitish, terminal segments orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines to 2 inches 2 lines. 
Australia. 
Agarista milete. (Plate V. fig. 6.) 
Phatena-noctua milete, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. sviii. fig. D (1779). 
Eusemia milete, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 290. n. 666 (1858). 
Eusemia melite (sic), Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 53. n. 14 (1854). 
Black ; head white-spotted ; collar orange, thorax spotted with pale yellow ; tegulse 
fringed with grey; abdomen with the basal segments white-edged, the anal segments yellow- 
edged; anal tuft orange. Wings spotted here and there with metallic steel-colour; two 
irregularly arched series of pale yellow spots ; primaries with a spot of the same colour near 
the end of the cell ; fringe of secondaries white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines to 2 inches 
2 lines. 
Java {Horsfield). 
This species is decidedly allied to A. leonora and A. donovani, and therefore cannot be 
retained in the genus Eusemia ; the two genera are, however, very similar in structure, and 
can be best distinguished by external facies. Dr. Boisduval considers them identical (and I 
am inclined to agree with him), although they have a very difi'erent aspect. 
EUSEMIA, Dalman. 
Eusemia basalis. (Plate V. fig. 2.) 
Eusemia basalis, Wallcer, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 53. u. 12 (1854). 
Black-brown ; abdomen banded with orange : primaries spotted with steel-blue ; a large 
