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of the blackish strig^ ; orbicular and reniform marks blackish lined and speckled, 

 the centre of both being either of the same colour as the basal area, or ochreous, with 

 an intervening black streak, and in some specimens they are defined by an ochreous- 

 yellow line, with a deep black patch at the end and base of the cell as well as an 

 intervening quadrate patch, in these latter the pale line does not then border the 

 marks along the median vein ; below the cell is a more or less defined longitudinal 

 streak which is generally black and dilated at eacli end, and also cut by the pale 

 ochreous transverse line, this streak being bordered above by a glaucescent-greyish 

 fascia : hindwiug dusky brown, the apical marginal border being almost black, and 

 the anal area marked with black strigas bordered by cinereous speckles ; across the 

 upper disc is a broad cinereous-blue band. Body dark brown ; head, palpi, and 

 forelegs above with pale speckles. 



Female : with broader wings : forewing similarly coloured, the outer half being 

 more or less glaucescent-grey speckled ; orbicular and reniform marks more or less 

 indistinct, their black borders and lower streak obsolete : hind wing as in male. 



Expanse 3 to 4 inches. 



Larva half looped ; with sixteen legs; fifth, sixth, seventh, eleventh, and twelfth 

 segments with a short conical dorsal prominence; varied with purpHsh-brown and 

 ochreous, and irregularly marked with short black streaks ; head ochreous, dotted 

 with brown. Pupa purpHsh-brown ; efflorescent ; enclosed amongst leaves of food- 

 plant. 



" Feeds on Terminalia, Cinnamomia, &c." (Thioaites.) 



Genus AGONISTA. 



Lygniodes* Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 123 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1235. 

 Agonista, Eogenhofler, Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 113, fig. 5 (1874). 



Male : forewing triangular, broad, velvety, costa arched, apex very acute, exterior 

 margin oblique, even : cell very short, extending only to one-sixth the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second from close to end, trifid, 

 third at one-sixth from base of second, fourth about one-half from base of third, fifth 

 from end of the cell and slightly touching third close to its base ; discocellular deeply 

 concave, bent at each end, i*adials from the angles ; middle median at one-fifth before 

 end of the cell, lower at one-half; submediau almost straight: hindwing short, 

 broad, triangular, exterior margin very oblique ; cell very short, reachiug about one- 

 fifth the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell, the first branch being much 

 curved ; discocellular bent in the middle, radial from near lower end ; middle median 

 from close to end of the cell, lower at one-third; submedian and internal straight. 



* Used by Scbouheir in 1836, for a genus of Coleopteia. 

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