EUSEMIA LECTRIX. 
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and in fact are glabrous. The tarsi are very long, 
and become gradually more slender to the tips, 
which are furnished each with ono very long and 
slender unguis, the other being short and bifid. The 
four terminal joints of the tarsi are almost denuded, 
except that there exists a row of very delicate short 
setae, and another of slender, short, incurved spi- 
nulae. 
E. lectrix measures about three inches between 
the tips of the wings; the ground colour of the 
upper pair is deep black, with numerous bluish- 
white and yellow spots, one of the latter forming a 
broad abbreviated band near the middle, and the 
former a curved series not far from the tip ; under 
wings likewise deep hlack, the base red, and an 
irregular macular band of the same colour towards 
the middle, succeeded by a series of remote bluish- 
white oval spots, nearly on a line with those of the 
superior wings. The thorax is black, with an ob- 
long yellow spot on each side ; abdomen black, 
annulated with red. The under side corresponds 
in its markings to the upper. 
It has been hitherto found only in China, but 
it is not unlikely that it likewise occurs in Eastern 
India. 
