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88 EUSEMIA MACULATRIX.

PLATE II. Fig. 3. of the wings nearly three and a half inches: colour of the anterior pair intense black, with some slight patches of blue scales at the base; this is succeeded by a small white triangular patch, then two large suboval ones, then three placed wider apart, and between these and the apex are five small oval spots. Hind wings bright orange, black at the base, with a black costal spot and a large black discoidal one extending to the anal angle, and posteriorly emitting two narrow longitudinal bars which are connected with the very broad and irregular black margin; in the latter are two white spots, that nearest the fore wings being largest. The head and thorax are black, the shoulders pale yellow; abdomen orange, with black transverse stripes. In the specimen here figured, the abdomen is terminated by two broad triangular horny lobes, externally covered with orange-coloured hairs. The sides of the thorax beneath are black, with an orange-coloured stripe down the breast; the belly is also orange with black spots. The legs are long and black.