302 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



This differs from A. Latinus in the median white band of fore- 

 wings, which is short, stumpy and straight-edged (not indented or 

 crenulate as in Latinus), and not extending to inner margin ; 

 there is not a white band with black dots as in Latinus, but only 

 a very tine white linear margin. This may turn out to be a very 

 striking variety of Latinus, but the wings all appear narrower 

 and the markings are quite different. 



Agarista tropica, sp.nov. 



£Q. 46-58 mm. Head black with brick yellow dots on either 

 side of eyes and at base of antennse. Palpi black, red-yellow 

 laterally, and fringed with black hairs beneath. Antenna black 

 and yellow annulated. Thorax black, with base of epaulettes 

 yellow. Abdomen, anterior third black, posterior two-thirds 

 orange with base of segments narrowly black. Forewings, costa 

 rounded, hiudmargin obliquely rounded, black, with brick-yellow 

 markings ; costa with fine yellow edge near base, and fine white 

 margin at apex ; twelve brick-yellow spots arranged as follows : 

 an arrow-shaped one in centre of wing near base, a triangle 

 between its posterior portion and costa, a square just beyond and 

 opposite costa at ^ a group divided by black veins into three 

 oblong spots between this and hindmargin, a rhomb divided into 

 two oblong spots by black veins between these and costa and 

 opposite t costa, similar twin spots and oblong between these and 

 middle of hindmargin, and twin rounded spots near costa just 

 before apex : these latter are paler and of a blue tinge ; a row of 

 hindmarginal white dots between veins : cilia black. Hindwings 

 with basal fifth, a linear costal border, a broad hindmarginal 

 border, and an oblong prolongation from costa at | to vein 4, 

 black ; middle third of wing orange or brick-yellow, irregularly 

 dentate into the black of both borders, with black veins and the 

 black prolongation from costa very conspicuous ; sub-marginal 

 dots white ; cilia black. 



This differs from A. Donovani in many particulars ; the number 

 of spots in that species is 8, arranged in three couples and two 



