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Subfamily GEOMETEINAE. 



31. Agathia cinerea sp. nov. 



?. Fai'noings: green, the markings olive-grej', with transverse darker striae; 

 basal blotch grey, with a dark spot on outer edge above median and wholly dark 

 fuscous on inner margin, traversed close to base by a narrow green fascia, and 

 followed by a much broader one, which is succeeded by a narrow curved grey fascia 

 connected with a large grey crescent on the dlscocellular ; an irregular green fascia 

 comes next ; outer half of wing occupied by a broad grey fascia, with both edges 

 irregular, containing the outer line, which is marked by black dashes on the veins, 

 and running up to apex, which is fuscous ; the marginal area below the apex is green, 

 speckled with fuscous ; marginal line fuscous ; fringe white. 



Hindwings : with dark basal blotch ; marginal two-thirils brown-grey, wit h 

 green blotch at apex, containing a blackish line from before apex to anal angle, more 

 or less obliterated below the centre by dull grey scales ; outer line indicated by black 

 lines on veins ; fringe whitish above the angle, fuscous below. 



Top of face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen green, the segmental rings of abdomen 

 grey ; lower part of face and palpi reddish grey. Underside pale green ; forewings 

 irregularly blotched and speckled with fuscous grey; hindwings with a diffuse 

 dark grey submarginal fascia. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



Two ¥ ? from Fergusson Island, October and December. 



This belongs to the same group as A. diversiformis Warr., in which the hind- 

 margin of hindwings runs straight from anal angle to end of vein 4. 



32. Agathia diversilinea sp. no\-. 



(J. Larger, on the average, than lycaemma Kollar, and differing in the following 

 points. In lycaenaria the central band below the middle is inclined basewards, the 

 lowest blotch reaching the inner margin evidently before the middle, and sloping 

 towards the base ; in diversilinea the lower arm of the central band is vertical ; the 

 lowest blotch is curved outwards and reaches the inner margin slightly beyond the 

 middle. The outer line is still more different : in lycaenaria (he line, which is 

 yellowish, is edged with three dark brown teeth below costa, and passing through a 

 large brown blotch on veins 3 and 4, not touching the margin, is then curved 

 inwards to a brown spot on inner margin before anal angle ; in diversiliiiea, on t lie 

 other hand, the line from the costa is broadly brown internally, edged with pinkish 

 grey outwardly ; the central blotch is obliquely placed, narrow, and connected with 

 the margin, the line thence running straight to anal angle and forming the edge of 

 the reddish grey marginal colouring which runs without any interruption, red-brown 

 or reddish grey, and toothed, to the radial ; this edge in lycaenaria is black-brown and 

 interrupted between the veins. Similarly in the hindwings the submarginal baud is 

 much broader and .straighter, the inner margin being without any trace of the dark 

 blotch which in lycaenaria marks the extremity of the outer line. These differences 

 are ecpially noticeable on the underside, where the dark markings are blood-red instead 

 of black-brown. The ? differs in a similar way from the ? oHyc(i<;narla. 



Expanse of wings : c?, 40 mm. ; ? , 42 mm. 



Three cJcJ, three ??, from Fergusson Island, November and December; 

 two ¥ ¥ from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, March and April. 



