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EUSEMIA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
upperside of mid and hind tibiae yellowish white. Segment 3 of palpi longer than in vetula ; ab¬ 
dominal segment 8 and claspers entirely black. Forewing much more elongate than in vetula, more 
nearly resembling that of maculatrix in shape; near the base a yellow cell-dot; bands not interrupted, 
at hind angle a yellowish white spot; submarginal spots long and pure white. On the underside the 
foreAving has a Avhite spot in front of the cell near the base and further distally another in the 
cell; the submarginal spots of both wings are large and bluish white. — Philippines: Mindanao, Luzon. 
conspicua, E. conspicua Roths. (Id). Body similar to those of the two preceding species; underside of 
thorax, however, more extended yellow; lobes of abdominal sternite 8 yellow, their upper margin black 
at the base. Forewing with a broad pale yellow discal band; antemedian band reduced to a narrow transverse 
cell-bar; submarginal spots white, small, usually absent. Hindwing red, with the usual black mark¬ 
ings. Beneath the forewing bears a white subbasal cell-spot, the submarginal spots being all present 
and sometimes linear. On the upperside of the forewing there is occasionally a yellow transverse 
spot below the cell-spot. — Sarawak and British North Borneo. 
sumatrana. E. sumatrana Roths. (Id) replaces conspicua on Sumatra. Abdomen beneath with black spots 
also in $; lobes of sternite 8 rather more extended black. Fore wing above with larger blue spots, 
a distinct yellow subbasal cell-dot and an antemedian and a discal band which are very broad and much 
deeper yellow than in conspicua ; the bands are frequently connected with one another posteriorly and, 
on the underside, are orange-yellow. Claspers of as in conspicua. — In the mountains of West 
Sumatra; appears to be still rather rare in collections; in the Tring-Museum, besides the name-type, 
a small number of specimens from the Padang Bovenlanden (ex coll, van de Poll) collected at about 
1600 ft from January to April. 
bisma. E. bisma Moore (= lambertiana Bdv.){\ b). Body similar to those of sumatrana and conspicua,. 
Upperside of forewing: antemedian band more or less reduced, rarely absent, discal band wanting or 
represented by a thin transverse bar, submarginal spots white, very large and much more proximal 
than in the other species. HindAving red; the marginal band anteriorly broad, black like the inter¬ 
rupted median band. Larva black ringed with white or yellow, each segment with a transverse row 
of 12 small glossy black granules, which bear a long white hair each; head orange with black 
spots; legs glossy black. On Dioscorea and Batatas. — Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, SumbaAva and 
Sumba. The yellow spots of the forewing are as a rule larger in the specimens from Java and Su¬ 
matra than in the individuals from the more eastern islands, the marginal band of the hindwing, 
moreover, being often very broad in the latter. 
latimargo. E. latimargo Hamps. (la $). The white spots on head and thorax smaller than in nipalensis; 
coxae yellow; apex of abdomen pure black in <$ and abdomen beneath with black spots also 
in d'. Forewing with a pale yellow antemedian band; discal band absent or vestigial only, rarely the 
discal spots as large as in nipalensis', submarginal spots small, white. Hindwing red; the black marginal 
band very broad anteriorly. — South India: Nilgiris, Kadur District, Travancore. 
E. nipalensis. Closely related to latimargo ; the spots on the patagia larger, abdominal seg¬ 
ment 8 of d 1 black above and more or less extended yellow beneath. The discal spots of the foreAving 
always present, and the marginal band of the hindwing narrower than in latimargo', the last sub¬ 
marginal spot on the forewing always rather large. Very variable individually and geographically. North 
nipalensis. India, Burma, Tonkin. — In nipalensis Butl. the loAver discal spot, which is usually composed of three 
spots, always narrower than the cell-spot, being sometimes reduced to a thin stripe. In f. nipalensis 
westwoodi. Butl. (= dives Bull.) (1 b) the hindwing is yellow, often with a reddish tint, while it is red in f. west- 
woodi Kirby (la). In some specimens of the red form, especially often in the spots of the fore- 
clara. wing are white instead of yellow (= ab. clara ab. nov.). Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Shevaroy Mts. in 
South India; abundant in North India, from 1500—2200 m., in April, May and August; flies about 
the tops of flowering trees. We have no information as regards the distribution of the two forms over 
expansa. the seasons; the yelloAv specimens (f. nipalensis) perhaps belong to the spring brood. — expansa subsp. 
nov. The four yellow spots of the forewing large; the loAver discal spot larger than the cell-spot and 
even than the loAver antemedian spot. 2 $$ in Mus. Tring from Tonkin: Chiem-Hoa and Than-Moi, 
schana. June-July and August-September (H. Fruhstorfer). — schana subsp. nov. A in the British Museum, 
from the Thoungyen valley, Tenasserim, has the forewing narrower, and the black halfband of the hind¬ 
wing as in E. munclina narroAver than the space which separates it from the marginal band. 
lectrix. E. lectrix L. This species, which has been described and figured in vol. 3, pi. 1 a, is very 
abundant in West and Central China, but also occurs south of the Yang-tse-kiang and on Formosa. 
Coxae black, anterior ones yellow; the black markings of the hindwing and the underside of the ab¬ 
domen larger than in E. nipalensis (1 b). Cf. vol. 3, p. 5. 
E. distincta. Pronotum without spots, the spots of the patagia on the contrary very large; 
