AGEOTIS.— TIEACOLA. Ji; 



line, \\itli irreguhu- alternate purple-browu and retklish inner b(jrder ; a marginal row of 

 distinct black dentate marks; some pale spots on costa near apex: hind wing cinereous- 

 brown, palest at tlie base. Tliorax and palpi dark purple-brown, abdomen and legs greyish- 

 brown, l(\<;s -witli brown bands. 



Expanse, d l-{\,, $ 1^^- inch. 



Ilab. Solun, Punjab {Reid), Cherra Pungi, Assam {Atkinson). In oil. V. Moore and 

 Dr. Staudingcr. 



Allied to A. christo])hi, Staudinger. 



Aguotis placida, u. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 19.) 



Male and female. Dark grey: lore wing crossed by a black short subbasal double line, 

 an antemcdial and postmedial sinuous line, a submarginal yellowisli lunular line, bordered 

 inwardly by blackish dentate marks ; a distinct black marginal lunular line ; orbicular and 

 nniiform spots black-lined, with black interspaces ; a black blunt dentate mark below tlie 

 orbicular spot from the sinuous line : hind wing and body brownish grey. Thorax and legs 

 dark grey, black-spotted ; tarsi with black bands. 



Expanse 1^^ inch. 



Ilah. Kaschmir (Sind Valley) ; Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Has somewhat the appearance of A. multanijula, Iliibn. 



Genus TIRACOLA, Moore. 

 Tiracola, Moore, V. Z. S. 1881, p. 351. 



Fore wing long, narrow, costa slightly arched towards the end, apex acute; exterior 

 margin oblique, convex, and sinuous ; cell long ; lirst subcostal branch emitted at half length 

 of the cell, second at three fourths its length, trifurcate, third emitted at one third beyond 

 base of the second, and fourth at about one half from base of second, fifth from end of the 

 cell, and touching the third near its base ; discocellular deeply concave, upper radial from 

 angle close to upper end of the cell, lower radial from angle near lower end of the cell ; 

 upper median from angle above and middle median I'rom end of the cell, third at one third 

 before its end ; subnicdian concave near its base. Ilind wing triangular, apex convex ; 

 exterior margin oblique, recurved, slightly sinuous ; cell short ; two subcostal branches from 

 end of the cell; discocellular very slender, angled inward in the middle, a slender radial 

 from the angle ; two upper median branches from lower end of the cell, third branch at half 

 before its end. Body stout, abdomen long ; palpi short, ascending, compactly clothed, 

 second joint thick, third joint short ; legs compactly pilose above ; antennae setose. 



Type 'f. i)lu(jiata. 



TlKACOL-V PLAGIATA. 



Agroiis plaffiala, Walker, Catal. Lcp. Ilet. B. M. .\i. p. 7-10 (1857). 

 jjffrolis jjlat/ifera, 'Walker, I.e. p. 711. 



Hub. Ceylon ; S. India ; Durjiliug (Atkinson). 



