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Huh. Madagascar; 1 6- 



]'!asily distiiiguisbed from Gorlasa sidm (Falir.^ by the colour and iiatteni. \\'. \\. 



This sjipcies differs from Godasa sidae (Fabr.) structurally in voin 7 of the hind- 

 wings being joined to vein 8 in the ordinary way, as in Episteme liubn., while in 

 s idae the juncture of those veins takes place farther from the base and the veins 

 remain close together for more than a millimetre. K. J. 



/(. fiido-Austrcdian fm-ms with vein 10 arising from the areole. 



Agarista Leach, Zool. Misc. I. i>. o7 (1815). 



To this genus I refer only A. agricola Don. (as type of the genus), biforniM 

 Butl., daemonis Butl., and a new species described below by Mr. Eotbscbild. These 

 species are characterised by the antennae being strongly clubbed in either se.x, by all 

 the femora being rough with long hairs, and by some peculiarities in the neuration : — 



Tlie in)per discocellular veinlet of the forewings is strongly concave ; the second 

 partition of the median nervm'e is on the forewing much longer than the respective 

 portion of the outer margin, and on the hindwing only half the length of the lower 

 di.<cocellular veinlet ; vein 5 of the hindwings has the base feebly but visibly bent 

 towards vein 6, while in the allied genera vein o is either straight at liase or faintly 

 curved towards vein 4. K. J. 



2.i. Agarista timorensis liothsch. sp. nov. 



c?. Differs from A. (u/ricola Don. in tlie .subapical band of spots being white, 

 not orange, and in the cellular patch being very narrow. The red band of the hind- 

 wings is replaced liy a partly obliterated row of whitish spots. Underside shows same 

 differences. 



Hab. Oinainisa, Dutch Timor (W. Doherty, November and December 1891); M. 



Eventually, when we possess material from all the lesser Sunda and Papuan 

 Islands, I feel sure Ar/arista hiformis Butl., ^1. daemonis Butl., and my new 

 A. tiinoreiMis will all have to rank onl\' as subspecies of A. agricohi Don., but 

 ,it present no intergraduated forms are known. W. li. 



Fhalaenoides Lewin, Lep. Ins. lY. S. Wtdes p. 2 (180.5). 



Tlio species which are generically identical with Ph. f/h/cin(te Lew., the type of 

 the genus, differ hom'Agarista Leach in the middle and hinder tibiae being clothed 

 in nuile and female with long hairs in the middle on the npperside. In neuration 

 P}((daenoides I.ewin come.s very close to Agarista Leach; the second partition of the 

 median nervure to the forewings is, however, shorter, that of the hindwings longer 

 than in Agarista, and vein 5 of the hindwings is at the base straight, or feebl} lient 

 backwards. The antennae are less clubbed tlian in Agarista, and in the ? much 

 thinner than in the d . The tibiae are not so hairy in this genus as they are in 

 Zalif(sa Wlk. [= Seiulyra t^tretch according to Ilanipson, Mollis of India II. 

 p. l.i.'j (1894)]. 



Fhalaenoides Leach contains a good many heterogeneous forms which ought 

 to be removed from this genus. Ph. funebris (Moore) and vithoroides (Leech)— the 

 latter .stands under Episleme Hb. in Kirby's Oatalogne p. 29. n. 51 — have .setiform 

 antennae in both sexes, and the terminal joint of the palpi is very short ; in these 

 characters the two .species (or are they geographical fornis of one species ?) agree with 

 Zulissa longijjennis (Wlk.). In Ph. megisto (Boisd.), pamphilia (Stoll). goldiei 



