TRIFIDjE. 357 



Western, and Central Europe, and found also in the South 

 of Sweden, North of Italy, and Livonia. 



15. A. agathina, Dwp. — Expanse, \\ inch. Fore wings 

 bright rosy or purplish-red ; upper stigmata whitish, united 

 to a similar subcostal stripe, edged beneath with black ; 

 hind wings grey. 



Antennae of the male notched almost throughout with 

 sharp conical teeth, each crowned with a minute tuft of 

 bristles ; purplish brown. Palpi moderately tufted, purple- 

 brown, with the apical portion white ; head pale grey in 

 front, purplish-brown above ; collar bright light purple, 

 slenderly barred with black and edged with whitish ; 

 remainder of thorax rich purple-brown, with a slight 

 divided crest from collar to back ; fascicles dense, smoky- 

 white ; abdomen pale purplish-grey, lateral and anal tufts 

 spreading, purplish-brown. Fore wings rather narrow at 

 the base ; costal margin faintly rounded ; dorsal margin 

 straight ; apex squarely angulated ; hind margin truncate, 

 but rounded off at the anal angle ; colour an exquisite pale 

 rosy, rosy brown, or purplish-pink, with a bi'oad paler or 

 yellowish stripe along the subcostal region ; a small black 

 streak at the base of the costa, and another along the base 

 of the median nervure ; first line very slender, black, 

 forming a series of long angulated bends, and placed 

 obliquely ; second line also very slender, black, sharply 

 angulated at the dorsal margin, thence obliquely more 

 direct to above the reniform stigma, where it bends strongly 

 back to the costa ; subterminal line a series of irregular 

 whitish spots and angles, edged inwardly with deep purplish, 

 and in the middle by three or four deep black wedges ; 

 outside it rather clouded with grey. In the space from the 

 first to the subterminal line the nervures are mainly streaked 

 with black. Orbicular stigma very small, whitish, usually 

 enclosed in a long wedge-shaped black blutcli. but sometimes 

 united to the white subcostal stripe ; reniform stigma also 



