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33. Agathia subcarnea sp. nov. 



S . Foretvlngs : bright green; costa pinkish grey, varied wit li fuscous lirown ; a 

 narrow yellowish brown basal blotch ; a slightly curved pinkish brown fascia before 

 the middle ; the edges darker brown, funnel-shaped below costa, and swollen at 

 middle and on inner margin ; marginal area red-brown ; its inner edge straight and 

 obtusely angled opposite the cell, deeper red-brown, immediately followed by a 

 pale pinkish grey line ; a subapical green patch, edged with yellow, forming a single 

 sinus outwardly and a double one inwardly, its top oval and yellow, its bottom round 

 and yellow ; fringe yellow. 



Hindivings : with the marginal area and inner margin red-brown ; an o\al 

 yellow subapical patch, and a white spot before the tail ; fi-inge yellow, red-brown 

 about the tail. ? with the red-brown marginal area broader, varied with yellowish 

 externally, and with its inner edge and the pale line irregularly sinuous ; the sub- 

 apical patch of forewings flattened and irregular in shape. 



Vertex, collar, base of patagia, and metathorax bright green; rest of patagia, 

 thorax, and abdomen brown-red, the abdomen varied with ochreous ; face and upper 

 liarts of palpi reddish, the latter ochreous below. Underside pale whitish or yellowish 

 green, the markings dark red in the (?, paler red in the ?. 



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



Three c?(?, two ? ? , from Kiriwini, Trobriand Islands, ;March to i\Iay, and fonr 

 i?c?, one ?, from Fergusson Island, (October to December. 



Agathiopsis gen. nov. 



Foreimngs : ample, triangular ; costa straight till just before apex ; apex slightly 

 produced; hindmargiu curved outwards in middle, more strongly in ? than (?, and 

 consequently more oblique below. 



Hindwings : with inner margin lengthened ; hindmargin produced to points 

 at veins 4 and 6. 



Metathorax tufted; antennae of (J shortly pectinated ; palpi horizontally porrect, 

 the terminal joint short ; hind tibiae with four spurs. 



Neuration: forewings, cell not quite half the length of wing; discocellular 

 inangulated ; first median from about one-half, second and third from end of cell ; 

 upper radial stalked with last fom- subcostals, the first free. Hindwings with last two 

 medians and two subcostals stalked. 



Abdomen red-brown, with snow-white dorsal spots, mo.st distinct in cj. 



Type : Agtithlojjsis macvlnta sp. nov. 



34. Agathiopsis basipuncta sp. nov. 



cj. Forewings: pale yellowish green, the costa gilded; a red-brown bnsal patch on 

 mner margin ; first line marked by fine ferruginous scales, densest on inner margin ; 

 cell-spot small, deep black ; disc strewn with ferruginous scales; a red-brown ]iatch 

 with a purplish and darker centre towards the apex, with the veins beyond it and 

 some scattered scales ferruginous; a small red-brown patch at anal angle, with 

 scattered ferruginous scales above it ; marginal line fine, ferruginous ; fringe pale 

 ochreous, with brownish mottlings. 



Hindwings : with base deep red-brown, followed l)y a gildeil space on inner 

 margin containing some red-Iirown marginal spots ; a larger brown blotch at one- 

 third ; cell-spot black ; exterior line at two-thirds, curved from costa, and forming 



