406 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Lepidoptera. 



Queensland. 



This appears to be the northern representative of A. affinis. 



8. Agarista danvinicnsisj sp. n. 



Near to A. Donovani, which the female almost entirely 

 agrees with on the upper surface, excepting that the yellow 

 spots on the primaries are smaller, the fringe less distinctly 

 spotted with white, and the abdomen ochreons with black bars 

 (not barred with whitish) ; the ground-colour of the wings in 

 both sexes is, however, much darker (purplish chocolate, almost 

 black), and the band across the secondaries of the male is 

 much narrower on the under surface ; the wings are purplish 

 black instead of shining chocolate-brown, the costal margins 

 are not yellow, as in A. Donovani ; the yellow markings are 

 all smaller, narrower, and more uniform in colour, the inner 

 spot on the discoidal cell of the primaries is obliterated, the 

 fourth spot of the oblique central series is also obliterated, the 

 band on the secondaries shows no trace of white suffusion, and 

 the basal yellow streaks are obliterated. Expanse of wings 

 54-60 millim. 



(J $ . Port Darwin {Bucldand). 



We also ])ossess two apparently dwarfed examples of what 

 I take to be a slight variety of this species collected in N. 

 Australia by J. li. Elsey, Esq. 



NyctemeridaB. 



9. Pterothysanus lanarts, sp. n. 



Allied to F. latic-ilia, but the white spots on the primaries 

 enlarged, more especially in the submarginal series ; secon- 

 daries with the discal lunulated black belt narrower, abbre- 

 viated, not extending beyond the second median branch, the 

 third lunule separated from the fourth, the second and third 

 median branches not being blackened, so that the discal and 

 submarginal markings are only connected by the blackening 

 of the subcostal branches ; submarginal and marginal black 

 spots smaller and less confluent. Expanse of wings 

 44 millim. 



Shanghai ? Type Brit. Mus. 



The type was labelled " E. India," but on referring to the 

 register, I find that the specimens were from " Shanghai, 

 N. India, New Grenada," &c. As we know the species of 

 the N.E. Himalayas to be P. laficih'a, and as " N. India " 

 in the old registers usually stood for Silhet or Assam, the 

 probability is that P, lanaris is from Shanghai. 



