Volume 33, Plate II / Entomology (Insects)

Agarista Picta, Eusemia Lectrix & E. Maculatrix

1. Agarista Picta. An elegant day-flying moth measuring about two inches and a half across, the fore wings black with green bars at the base, orange oval spots, bluish fasciae, and a white tip, the hind wings black with a greenish-blue cross bar and a pink fascia. A native of New Holland, its genus flies by day after the manner of hawk-moths, the hairy cylindrical caterpillar feeding on no single family of plants and remaining a chrysalis some seventy-five days.
2. Eusemia Lectrix. A beautiful insect near three inches across, the upper wings deep black spotted with bluish-white and yellow, a broad yellow band near the middle, the lower wings black with a red base and band and a series of bluish-white oval spots. The thorax is black with yellow side spots and the abdomen black ringed with red, distinguished from its allies chiefly by the structure of the slender fore legs; hitherto found only in China and perhaps also Eastern India.
3. Eusemia Maculatrix. Expanding nearly three and a half inches, the anterior wings are intense black with blue scales at the base and a graded series of white spots, the hind wings bright orange with a black base, costal and discoidal spots, and a broad irregular black margin bearing two white spots. The head and thorax are black with pale yellow shoulders, the abdomen orange striped with black; this unique specimen was lately brought from the Assam territories.