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AMESIA SANGUIFLUA. 
the cell formed between the postcostal and great 
medial veins to the tip of the wings. 
The antennas are rather long, slender, and bipec- 
tinated to the tip, the pectinations being of nearly 
equal length throughout, those at the extremity 
very slightly longer, so that the antenna) appear at 
first sight rather clavate. 
Expansion of the wings four inches and a quarter 
Head and thorax bluish-black ; antennae of the same 
colour. Anterior wings black, with a considerable 
number of small spots scattered over the surface, 
five of which, placed towards the base, are yellow, 
the rest white ; the nervures from the middle to the 
apex are each accompanied by a dark red stripe ; 
posterior wings black from the base to beyond the 
middle, with a few white spots encircled with blue, 
the exterior part brilliant mazarine blue, with a 
considerable number of white spots : abdomen deep 
blue, all the segments having a small white spot on 
each side. On the under side the spots are smaller 
and more numerous, most of them encircled with 
blue, the marginal row double ; the nervures with- 
out the red stripe. 
Mr. Hope’s specimen is from Assam ; and we have 
seen another very fine one in the possession of James 
Wilson, Esq., which wa3 received from the neigh- 
bourhood of Serampore. Drury gives Surinam as 
the locality of his insect ; but the probability that 
there is some mistake in this, is much greater than 
the likelihood that it would occur so remotely from 
what is evidently its native region. 
