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$, $, Kuching, May 1901 (types). % Kuching, August 

 1899 {B. Shelf ord). $, Sandakan, Borneo ( W. B. Bryer). 

 The Sandakan male is as large as the females. 



Chalcosia viridisuffusa, nov. 



9 . Antennie and upper part of frons black, lower part of frons 

 glistening blue, top of head and collar crimson, body and fore-wings 

 nearly black, suffused with green, some bright blue scales on the 

 edges of the divisions of the thorax, fore-wings with the veins pale, 

 and with a broad white even band across the disc from costa a little 

 beyond the middle to hinder margin at three-fourths, hind-wings 

 white, basal fourth suffused with dark dull green, outer margin 

 broadly black, tinged with green, the band gradually fining to a 

 point before the anal angle ; under-side, body and legs dull black, 

 without markings, wings as above but the basal portion shot with 

 steel-blue, all the veins pale and distinct and both wings with a pale 

 blue grey band close to the outer margins. 



Expanse of wings 2x% inches. 



Matang, Sarawak, August 1899 {B. Shelf ord). 



Family CALLIDULIDiE. 

 Genus Agonis, Feld., Keise Nov., p. 107 (1868). 

 Agonis dymus, nov. 



^ . Rich chocolate-brown, very uniform in colour, fore-wings with 

 the costal line dark brown with many minute white dots, no other 

 markings above, cilia of both wings with the tips ochreous ; below 

 paler, tinged with ochreous, fore-wings with the costal line as above, 

 a row of seven white dots from the base through tlie cell; 1st 

 basal, 2nd near it, 3rd in the middle of the cell with two very 

 minute dots above it, 4th, 5th and 6th close together inside an 

 angidar brown mark at the end of the cell, 7th half-way between it 

 and the outer margin, with two or three dots above it, all the dots 

 ringed with brown, hind- wings striated with chocolate-brown, with 

 a dark red-brown central band, containing several white dots in 

 clusters all ringed with brown, and three on the inner side in a row, 

 and several smaller ones in the disc. 



Expanse of wings IfV inches. 



Fergusson Isl., several examples. 



On the iipper-side somewhat similar to A. lycmnoides, 

 Felder, but the wings are longer and it is quite different 

 on the under-side. 



