( 405 ) 



most of the g'enns), 5 mm. wide in cell, 2 mm. anteriorly (and not quite reaching 

 costa), about 4 mm. posteriorly ; an oval subterminal patch between SC'^ and li-, 

 its longitudinal measurement somewhat exceeding the transverse ; a very small 



spot anteriorly and another posteriorly to this patch. Ilindiciiiq : a rather 



more extended subbasal patch, reaching the costal margin and nearly reaching 

 base and abdominal margin, its distal edge projecting eostally, behind K'- and 

 behind M- ; a narrow subterminal patch from R' to just behind 11- ; a, very small 

 spot anteriorly to this patch ; a speck on submedian fold about midway between 

 snbbasal patch and termen. Both wings with a pale line at base of fringe. The 

 usual dark red terminal markings on either side of the tail of hindwing discernible 

 but not at all conspicuous. 



Under-surface dirty white-yellow with a faint tinge of green, forewing with 

 a pink suffusion posteriorly to cell, reaching from SC to submedian fold, a broad, 

 irregular, deeper pink band beyond it from costa to tornus, a round grey apical 

 spot and lighter grey terminal suffusion ; hindwing with an equally broad post- 

 median pink band and some extremely narrow grey terminal shading. 



Mount Goliath, March 1911 (A. S. Meek). Type in coll. Rothschild. 



I know no Agatkia species with which to compare this ; the strong restrictioa 

 of the green coloration a little recalls Alloeopnge cimrea Warr. 



32. Agathia laetata (F.). 



I referred here {Gen. Tns. 129, p. 58), but doubtfully on account of tbe reputed 

 locality, the Pkalaena zonaria of Donovan's Insects of China, suggesting at the 

 same time as a possible alternative that the last-named might be a remarkable 

 laetata-like aberration of carisxiina Butl. I find that Pryer {T/a/is. As. Soc. 

 Japan xii. p. 50) thinks zonaria = curissitna, but probably he was only acquainted 

 with the single Japanese species of the genus (carissima), so that his opinion does 

 not really add appreciably to the elucidation of the question, especially as nearly 

 all the members of the laetata group are so closely related that Hampson 

 (Faun. Ind. Mollis, iii. p. 487) and Turner {I'roc. Linn. Soc. X.S. Wales, xxxv. 

 627) have made a clean sweep of them as synonyms, or at the utmost snbspecies. 



Alloeopage gen. nov. 



When I wrote my revision 1 Jiad seen so little material in the genus Ili'licopaqe 

 and was so much iii the dark regarding cinerea Warr. and rclata Warr. that I did 

 not vcutnre to remove them from llcliropogr, where they had been provisionally 

 located by Warren, merely indicating the probability of a distinct genua. I have 

 since satisfied myself that he was right {Nor. Zool. vi. p. 330) in placing them 

 together as sexes of a single species (tliough he then overlooked his own older 

 name of " Aijathia cinerea,'^ imposed on the ? three years earlier), and that the 

 unique venation is constant. The cJ retinaculum also, though strong, has not 

 the characteristic form of Ifcliropngi'. I give the characters of the now genus 

 as follows : 



Palpus with second j(]int reaching a little beyond Irons, shortly rough-scaled 

 above and moderately beneath ; third joint smooth, in 6 rather long, in ? long. 

 Antennae in S shortly pectinate. Pectus hairy. Femora somewhat hairy. Hind- 

 tibia in (? somewhat dilated, with hair-pencil ; in both .sexes with all s])nrs. 

 Abd(jmen not crested. Frenuliiin in both sexes fully developed. Wing-sliapc 



