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Aganais Hnisd. 



Phitliitiia Xuclua, Drury, Illustr. X<il. Hisl. II. Index (177i)). 



Noi-tua, Fabricius, Sijst. Ent. p. 595 (1775). 



Fhidaena liombip:, StoU, Pop. Ex. III. p. 173 (1782). 



Damulis Hiibner (lui- FabriciuR. 1805), Vers. bfk. Srhm. p. 172 (IS22 ?) (>.y).). 



Aganais Boisduval, Vuy. Asfi-ulabe, Ent. p. 248 (1832) (e.p. ; nomen nudum) ; id., Fauiie Ent. de 



Mudaijusao- p. 96 (1833) {f.p.) ; Hopff., Mowit.sb. KonijL Akud. Wisd. Berlin 1857. p. 422 ; id., 



Peter's Relsr Mas, /«s. p. 432 (18G2). 

 U;/psa group 8, Lorhlfis Walker, Lep. ffet. B. .)/. II. p. 456 (1H54). 

 Hjipsa, subgenus Lacide-i, Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. 1875. p. 3'_'1. 

 Hypm, subgenus Ai/nnais (part), id., I.e. p. 322. 



Hyjisa, group B {Agnuais Butler), Snellen, Tijdsrhr. o. Ent. XXXI. p. 125 (1888). 

 Loader, Moore, Lep. of Cci/l. II. p. 53 (1883) : Kirby, Cot. Lep. Tlet. I. p. 385 (1891). 

 Pseudhiipxa Kirby, I.e. p. 384 (1891). 

 IIi/psu, Section II. (Loehles), Hampson. .l/..(//.<: of India I. p. ."i04 (1894). 



The distiuguishiug eharacter.-i of this geuus lie especially in the structure of the 

 antennae. Snellen, as well as Hampson, says of the antennae of the male only that 

 the faseiculae are long ; the important differences between the male and fenude 

 antennae of Aganais and those of Asota (= Hypsa) have not yet been noticed, though 

 these difi'erences are obvious under a weak lens. In Aganais Boisd. the joints of the 

 antennae of either sex are cylindrical, as can be seen from a section through the 

 antennae, and in the male each joint (except the apical ones) bears on each side a 

 long processus of even breadth, which itself is furnished dorsally at the tip with a 

 bristle. In Asota Hb. the antennae of either sex are compressed; a transverse 

 section oiihe fe'iiudc antennae ha> an ovate outline, with the lower end often acute, 

 each joint being x'ounded at the u];iperside, and carinate, or nearly so, at the under- 

 side ; in the male of Asota Hb. the cariniform portion of the under surface is high, 

 which can easily be noticed by looking at the antennae from the side ; as the edge of 

 the carina is shorter than the respective joint, thei-e is an interspace between the 

 carinae of every two joints, which gives the antennae of the male in a side view the 

 appearance of a broad-toothed saw. The cariniform portion of the joints is co\'ered 

 with fine hairs and bears a pair of bristles, while the dorsal portion is scaled and is 

 furnished on each side with a longer bristle, varying in length and thickness accord- 

 ing to sex and species. In Aganais <S the lateral processus originate from the ventral 

 side of the joint and are hairy beneath ; the bristles at their extremities are homo- 

 logous to the dorsal bristles in Asota. Further notes about the antennae of Asota 

 and figures will be found under this genus. 



Boisduval introduced the name of Aganais first in Voyage de I' Astrolabe 1832, 

 but did not give a description of the geuus ; the species which he describes there 

 under Aganais are generically different from his two species described under Aganais 

 in Faune Ent. de Madagascar p. 9(). Boisduval applied the name nearly to all 

 Aganaidae he knew ; Butler and Snellen restricted it to the species allied to hwhonica 

 Boisd. ; Kirby gives caricae Fabr. as type, and includes in it a great number of Indo- 

 Australian forms. As Aganais of Vogage de V Astrolabe is a nomen nudum, we dare 

 not take it into consideration ; imder Aganais of Faune Entomologique de Madagascar 

 only two species are mentioned by name, borbonica and insularis, which are male 

 Tiwd female of one species. Type of Aganais is, therefore, doubtless borbonica Boisd., 

 and Pseiulhypsa Kirby has to sink as a .synonj'm. To Aganais Boisd. belong the 

 following Hypsids of Kirby's Catalogue : Pseudhypsa speciosa (Drury), sahretracta 



