148 HETEROCERA. 
HAGNAGORA, gen. nov. 
Allied to Darna ; the primaries shorter and broader, and also more pointed at the apex, the costal margin 
almost straight; secondaries longer and less rounded at the anal angle: head small, clothed with short 
hairs; palpi stout, but very short; antennz smooth; thorax rather broad; abdomen smooth, rather 
slender, and not extending beyond the hind wings ; legs slender. 
The above description has been drawn up to receive one species from Central 
America. 
1. Hagnagora catagrammina, sp. n. (Tab. XIV. figg. 3, 4.) 
Primaries dark brown, slightly reddish, crossed beyond the middle from the costal margin to the anal angle 
by a wide orange-yellow band; secondaries dark brown, with a wide central brilliant blue streak 
extending from the base to beyond the middle ; underside of the primaries the same as above, but slightly 
paler in colour, of the secondaries with the basal half bright glossy blue, broken into spots by the nervures : 
head, palpi, and antennw dark brown; thorax and abdomen reddish brown ; underside of the head and 
thorax dusky yellow; legs pale brown. Expanse 13 inch. 
Hab. Nicaracva, Chontales (Belt) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ridde, Trétsch, mus. 
Staudinger), Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
This beautiful insect is allied to two species I have recently described from Ecuador. 
JOSTA. 
Josia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 176; Walker. Cat. ii. p. 288. 
This Neotropical genus now has a large number of species placed in it; in our 
country it is well represented by about six species. 
1. Josia fulvia. 
Phalena Noctua fulvia, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 886 ; Mus. Lud. Ul. p. 383; Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 217; 
Mant. Ins. ii. p. 142; Seba, Locup. Rerum Nat. Thesaurus, iv. t. 31. figs. 11 &12, and t. 43. 
figs. 27, 28; Clerck, Icon. t. 55. f.6; Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. 251. f. F?. 
Josia fulvia, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. p. 19. no. 145, figs. 289, 290; Walk. Cat. ii. 
p. 291’. 
Hab. Muxtco?, Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Hége), near the city (Boucard, mus. D.) ; 
British Honpuras (Dyson ?), Corosal (Roe, mus. D.), R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux).— 
VENEZUELA (Dyson 2); Guiana, Surinam ! 2, 
All the Central-American specimens I have seen as yet of this species are from Mexico 
and British Honduras. 
2. Josia ligata. 
Josia ligata, Walk. Cat. xxxi. p. 1817. 
Hab. GuateMata, Panima, San Gerdnimo (Champion); Panama, Bugaba 800 to 
1500 feet (Champion).—Cotomeia, Bogota 1. 
This species was captured in large numbers at San Ger6nimo; it is very closely allied 
to J. fulvia. 
