94 AMKSIA SANGUIFLUA. 
the cell formed between the postcostal and great 
medial veins to the tip of the wings. 
The antennae are rather long, slender, and blpec- 
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 ; antenna? 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 ; 
])osterior wings black frcm 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 
AVilson, Esq., which was 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. 
